BourassaFugate201

Although many OSA and UARS patients think they prefer to sleep this way just because this is how they've always slept, they may very well have made a choice to sleep this way for very good reason. It's almost like a reflexive survival mechanism, since these preferences to sleep on our sides or stomachs, may have been formed not by any conscious effort, but as a reflexive coping mechanism for something that's ailing us. This is why oftentimes when patients come to me with sinus and or chronic fatigue issues, I always ask: "Which position do you prefer to sleep in?" It's almost a given that if patients like to sleep on their sides or stomaches their airways will look like the opening of a coffee stirrer when I look at their airway with my video endoscope.