Adult Sleep Positioner Training Belt to Eliminate Sleep-Related Positional Issues Like Snoring, GERD, Pain, and Wrinkles

I have had sleep apnea for a long time. It is the mixed type, and when I sleep on my back, all bets are off, and my AHI numbers are crazy high. I routinely use a Bilevel PAP machine for several years and have always known that to sleep on my back, I routinely go into full apnea for 45+ seconds accented by a beastly gasp of air hunger. Additionally, throughout the night, when on my back, I develop clear cycles of respiratory insufficiency, slowing and shallowing of the respiration patterns, until I stop breathing entirely, and the pattern repeats. The patterns are hypopnea, events, and apnea, and are easily trackable w/ computer programs. This is my story- Yours’s may be different. Sleeping should be a joy, a recharge, and a relaxing process. I do love restful sleeping!!! I sleep well in all positions. You might need positioning for various reasons. Yes, it gets complicated, and change is difficult. Yes, breaking habits may initially be painful. It is indeed a “sleep thing” here, not necessarily a “Sleep Apnea” thing. This sleep position aid is quite nifty, well designed, wears well, and quite simple. Easy and effective to set-up, use as a dependable, responsible training aid. Once adjusted, I pull it over my head, position it, and I fall asleep. A safety pin will stabilize the end spheres, but there is only minimal shifting of the balls. The sleeping unconscious brain does not like sleeping on the positioned balls because they are bluntly uncomfortable. Over time in weeks, I move the band up/down through thorax/abdomen, so as not to get used to the placement of the spheres in the sleeping mode, then, as needed, when sleeping, I roll to another side. Boom/Bam, no problem. Situation corrected. I have empirical data to show the effectiveness of this sleep positioning aid. I have attached a selective C&P of my OSCAR (sleep apnea application) profile for AHIs & total time in apnea/night. It shows: The noted AHI events alone, by using this sleep aid has reduced my signs/symptoms from “severe sleep apnea”, to “BELOW mild sleep apnea” (severe is > 30AHI/hr, mild is >5, <15 AHI/hr). The data captured also has data of snoring periods, and these S/S were also quelled by using iSleepFit. You undiagnosed folks out there with OSA- this really is a solution in many cases, such as mine. For many thousands of dollars, for diagnosis, and the DME, disposable headgear- you think “some organizations” would come up w/ alternate, less expensive solutions to sleep apnea then expensive devices. In my case, I will use both, the iSleepFit, & the BiPAP machine, knowing a lot of sleep apnea/snoring incidence are indeed position related. For all “YOU” out there- this might be all you need for a relaxing and routine night of restful sleeping. You even might get some sincere “thank you’s” from close sleeping bed partners. Go for it!!!! Since I started iSleepFit on 7/28, and my last download was 8/12 (16 days of iSleepFit), I included the graph to include 16 days prior to treatment 7/12. Thus the pic is a “snip” of the 2 graphs, as described above, for this particular time period. The data clearly shows without expanded explanation just how effective this item is.

The belt buckle would not open. I sent an email to the company but no response. No phone number. Aside from that I did put it around my back and it seemed uncomfortable. The balls are hard and dig in even when one is not lying on them. I will continue to use my foam product.

Very easy to use. I took off the balls except one. I just wish it were possible to put softer balls on it, since with the hard balls on the belt, the punishment for rolling onto one's back is rather harsh.

This product seems to be made by a well-meaning, earnest manufacturer. I wish it had worked for me. However, when worn, every time I turned onto my back, I awoke to sharp pain (a terribly unpleasant way to wake up!). This, I think, is due to the the balls being made of hard plastic. I suspect that a softer plastic (say, like tennis balls) would serve a similar purpose without causing so much pain. Note that I wore the balls positioned at my back since I must sleep on my side (or wake to morning back pain). This product certainly did make me sleep on my side! But I cannot control my movements while sleeping, and rolling onto my back hurt far too much to keep using it. I only used it for two nights, and that was plenty of time to decide not to ever use it again. I returned it to Amazon. Note also that even when latched completely, the buckle is not tight enough to keep the elastic belt from slipping when the belt is tightened enough to keep it snug against the body. The rest of the manufacturing quality seems to be good, with balls that adjust and clamp to the belt well. Perhaps someone else could handle the awakening while turning in their sleep, but not me.

I can't sleep on my back, so this WORKED to keep me on a side. If that is ALL you care about, this is for you! However, there were some reasons I had to return it as I just could not be tolerated, especially for the PRICE: 1. The balls would come apart in the night; that's a mess in the bed and I'm in no mood to try to fix it in the night (If it were a $10 item, I would have glued them in place and lived with it) 2. The "clasp" on it wasn't a quick thing at all, so you're left with having to deal with that going to bed---it's stretchy, so I ended up just sliding it up into place but the fit wasn't right of course (If it were a $10 item, I would have added my own clasp) What I show in the photo is something I made that does the job BETTER. I took a running belt (like for cell phones, purchased years go on amazon) and I put some hard wooden balls (kids toy? Got it at a thrift store) inside it. They don't fall out in the night, and the clasp is a side release buckle so it's QUICK AND EASY on and off.

I'm a sleep apnea sufferer but I'm on the low end of the scale (literally considered borderline). This means the conventional CPAP machine is not effective as treatment for me (I've tried several different models over the past 15 years since my diagnosis). My sleep doctor mentioned using something like this as an alternative to keep off my back. Mostly I relied on the tennis ball t-shirt method until I recently switched to a soft bed where one ball didn't cut it. I began looking for alternatives and actually made the mistake of buying one of those inflatable backpacks first (I highly recommend you don't). This was the second device I found after unsuccessfully trying a fanny pack stuffed with tennis balls. So far, this design has been great and I think I'm sleeping on my sides mostly, only a little on my stomach. I am in the process of ordering a second in-home test to see if it is working so I'll update this review if it isn't. The only issue(s) I have are that the balls do move a little too easy and the fancy foam mattress (that my wife just had to have) is soft enough that I can roll on to them occasionally. However, given that they sink into the bed a little it isn't the painful situation that other reviewers have described. It is just enough to wake me up to roll over. This circumstance also seems to be happening less as I continue to develop habits of side sleeping by using this device. That all means this device works and does what it claims to do.

Everything about this is so well-designed, comfortable, and effective. First night was a little difficult getting used to it, but I've been wearing it for a about a month now and absolutely love it. A few tips for people who are new to using it: 1. While figuring out how to adjust the balls, take ONE off the belt to mess with while leaving the other two in place. If you immediately take apart all 3 balls, you won't leave yourself a reference to look at to see how they go back together and fit on the belt. 2. Wearing it over a firmer part of your body (eg. rib cage) helps it stay in place overnight. 3. You don't have to use all 3 balls. I'm only trying to stay off one side of my body, and find it most comfortable to just use one ball for that.

Did not work for me. I need to sleep on my side to control snoring. Product did not keep me from rolling onto my back - so no help with snoring. Belt tends to shift so does not keep the balls in position.