• @lawrence@lemmy.worldOPM
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    5 months ago

    The correct way is to lie on your side, facing left. Because prevents gastric acid in esophagus.

    edit for clarification: This method is efficient primarily when the lower esophageal sphincter (I had to Google the correct name) is not functioning as intended.

      • @cm0002@lemmy.world
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        835 months ago

        The GitHub human branch maintainer peaced out forever ago, all attempts to establish communications aren’t going so well and the issue tracker is piling up…so probably never

        • @metallic_z3r0
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          I mean if it’s abandonware it’s ethical to reverse engineer and open source the reverse engineered platform, maybe even fork it and provide some sort of extensible framework for various plugins, or convert the kernel to a new architecture or even virtualize it. Hopefully we can also work out the bugs and the more glaring issues soon (looking at you, upright vertebrae).

          • @cm0002@lemmy.world
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            245 months ago

            We’re working on it, but the mf was on something, have you seen the digestive system class? Or the central nervous system class?

          • KSP Atlas
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            135 months ago

            I’ve heard some people managed to reverse engineer the human, though right now people are trying to figure out whether using a modded version is considered OP

              • IninewCrow
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                55 months ago

                Instead of modding, I know a few hackers that have removed whole sections to delete non functioning parts and I know a few others who figured out how to swap parts between different units.

      • @iiGxC@slrpnk.net
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        175 months ago

        Some people have mirrored internal organs, so this advice may be the ophosite for you. But also, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it, sleep however’s comfiest for you and lets you get the best sleep you can

            • Atelopus-zeteki
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              55 months ago

              Sure, round figures, lets call it 800K. And I bet the vast majority of them knows. It doesn’t take much of an examination for a doctor to determine location of heart and liver.

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                In fact many of them don’t, since the body is mostly symmetrical and apart from cutting them open or doing an MRI, you can’t really tell (which isn’t a big deal in most cases, because most medical procedures work regardless of this condition). Also, the heart is located almost in the middle, so there is not much difference.

                • Atelopus-zeteki
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                  Listening to the chest with a stethoscope, or your ear will tell the location of the heart. Percussing over the liver, but not finding a solid structure e.g. liver, which sounds different than a hollow structure, e.g. lungs would also help in identifying unexpected organ locations. I’m curious how you came to know that many of them don’t know? Do you keep a register of people with this condition, but don’t tell them?

    • @thefartographer@lemm.ee
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      False. The correct way to sleep is on a 7-11 sausage roller set to high speed.

      • The heat lamp creates warmth which you normally substitute with a dangerous choking blanket
      • the high-speed spinning flings off your sweat to keep you cool using Bernoulli’s Principle instead of energy-hungry and dangerous fans or AC units
      • the constant flow of vomit and other effluvia helps you maintain a healthy figure instead of ridiculously augmenting your life with the high-risk activity of “exercise.”
    • credit crazy
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      225 months ago

      I’m curious how accurate this is considering there’s rarely ever air in your stomach so what is the point when it’s effectively vacuum sealed.

      • @mihnt@lemmy.world
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        205 months ago

        As a side sleeper with GERD. It’s accurate as fuck. Before I found a medication that worked properly, I always slept on my left side.

          • @root_beer@midwest.social
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            15 months ago

            My wife has GERD but she can only take omeprazole for a certain period of time and has to take time off from it, though I forget the reason for it

            • 🐍🩶🐢
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              25 months ago

              It can tank your B12 and other nice things your body needs. At the end of the day, I

            • I just take it once a week and it keeps it in check. Before I started, I would wake up every night literally drowning in stomach acid and unable to breathe. When I first started taking it, I was taking it daily, but I always felt REALLY bloated, like I was going to explode. I cut off of it and found that the effect lasted for a week or more, and I started just taking it once a week, and I’ve been fine ever since.

      • @djsoren19@yiffit.net
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        Nah, if your stomach is acidic enough you can feel it. I finally caved and got a plush incline so that gravity keeps the bile down regardless of which side I sleep on, and I still usually favor sleeping on my left due to habits from before.

    • @edgemaster72@lemmy.world
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      165 months ago

      You sleep on your left side to avoid gastric acid in the esophagus.

      I sleep on my left side because sleeping on the right side angers up my sciatica.

      We are not the same.

    • @poppy@lemm.ee
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      Conversely, sleeping on your side isn’t very good for a lot of your joints. For instance in your diagram, that position is very bad for her hips and compressing her lungs. I still sleep on my side because it’s my preferred position but I have to have a knee pillow to keep my hips and knees aligned, and I try to have a pillow hugged to my chest to keep my spine and shoulders from crunching lol.

      • FirstPitchStrike
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        To go a tad further, if you have chronic reflux there is the obvious discomfort caused by the feeling of acid creeping into your esophagus. Overtime, the acid can also do damage to the cells of your esophagus causing a condition called Barrett’s Esophagus. This is not dangerous in and of itself but is considered a precancerous condition and requires monitoring.

      • 🐍🩶🐢
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        15 months ago

        Until you have woken up choking on acid that went in your lungs, you will not understand. I have EOE, and it really really sucks. I highly recommend not damaging your esophagus. I have spent years barely being able to eat without choking, though this latest round with the new doctor has been the best I have been in over a decade. Once your esophagus narrows to under 10mm, eating is a chore. Worst I ever got down to was 5mm. It was around ~7ish back in November…

        I keep things under control pretty well, but I was always taught to sleep on my left side growing up if your stomach was upset or you were having trouble breathing if you were sick.

    • @Uwu_im_toxic@lemmy.world
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      35 months ago

      Wait, I’ve heard the opposite. Lay facing right to aid your stomach in digesting things and pushing it out of the stomach, instead of letting it lay in the stomach and potentially gurgle it’s way up

      • @feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
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        I’m not falling for the Indian wisdom meme again until they fix their sanitation infrastructure and stop raping women to death on public transportation.

    • Atelopus-zeteki
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      25 months ago

      The cardiac sphincter prevents reflux of gastric fluids from the stomach to the esophagus.

    • Zagorath
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      05 months ago

      facing left

      On your left side. Whether that’s “facing left” or “facing right” depends on whether you’re comparing it to being on your front or on your back. Personally, I instinctively compared it to front, which would mean being on your left is facing to the right.

      So the way to be clear and unambiguous is to say which side of your body you’re referring to.

        • Zagorath
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          Yes, but to know what is your left, one first needs to establish what is their forward. If you were previously on your front (which is itself not an uncommon sleeping position), “turn to face left” will put them lying on their right side.

          This stuff really isn’t rocket science. I’m genuinely surprised to be getting push back here. If the goal is to tell people to lay on their left side, that’s what should be said. Not “facing left”, which doesn’t convey the same meaning.

        • Zagorath
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          35 months ago

          your left hand is always the left one. It’s relative to you, not to your direction

          Right. That’s my point. That’s why I proposed using terminology that relates only to you, as opposed to the necessarily external language of the parent comment which used “facing”.

  • callyral [he/they]
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    465 months ago

    i go to bed laying on my side, turn to slep on my stomach, then on my back, and once i’m actually asleep i look like this:

    animated gif of a tesseract

  • Flying Squid
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    385 months ago

    You know what’s fun? The post-surgery “you always sleep on this side? Learn to sleep on the other one because you’re going to be this way for weeks, motherfucker” sleeping position.

    • @Gestrid@lemmy.ca
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      75 months ago

      I had jaw surgery a few years back, and I had to adjust to sleeping sitting up (believe me, the surgery made me tired enough to be able to do that) for several weeks because I couldn’t risk messing up my jaw while it healed.

  • rustydomino
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    315 months ago

    Sleeping on my back is soooo relaxing… when I can fall asleep. For some reason I have the hardest time falling asleep on my back, but when it does happen it’s bliss.

    • @poppy@lemm.ee
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      I literally can’t fall asleep on my back lol. I can lay there for an hour and then the minute I roll over on my side or stomach I’ll fall asleep.

    • @GhostlyPixel@lemmy.world
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      75 months ago

      If I sleep on my back I get the most vivid and long nightmares, and, if I fall asleep in another position and then wake up from a nightmare, I’m almost always on my back. Not sure what it is, fiancée says I don’t snore or sound like I have trouble breathing.

      • @ECB@feddit.de
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        Exact same thing happens to me. It’s not necessarily nightmares, but really intense dreams. So intense that I wake up feeling tired.

    • @LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
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      Yo same. I have so many pillows that I have to arrange specifically to cradle my neck in a certain way or I’ll wake up with a headache and stiff neck. My neck is most comfy when I’m on my back, but the rest of my body disagrees.

      • @SeekPie@lemmy.world
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        15 months ago

        Step 1: Tape ypir neck to the bed while on your back.

        Step 2: Turn the rest of your body on the side.

        Step 3: ???

        Step 4: Profit

    • @force@lemmy.world
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      i don’t sleep on my back because it causes frequent sleep paralysis. i find it more comfortable than my side usually but i don’t want to be attacked by the jack o lantern horse guy while i’m in my bed

  • Lad
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    245 months ago

    I sleep on my side. I can’t sleep on my back or front :(

  • @Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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    I just keep rolling untill I fall asleep. Trying to sleep in a specific position is near impossible. Even the best one gets uncomfortable pretty quick. Only thing I try to avoid is sleeping on my right side as it seems to be the cause for my rhomboid pain