Prone Position

[+ purplekow]

I decided to start another thread about proving as I mentioned it in another post and thought it is an interesting phenomena. It is becoming standard practice to place Covid patients with significant respiratory distress in the prone position. This started with patients on ventilators after a small series showed that it improved outcome and eased the work o oxygenation. The reasons for this benefit were not immediately clear but it seems to have to do with recruitment o previously underused airways and movement of fluids within the lungs. On a practical level, some people can lie prone quite comfortably and others cannot. I am one of the ones who cannot. So today, when I decided to take a nap, I decided to try and remain prone. I initially became uncomfortable and wanted to move. I became restless and began moving pillows and making minimal adjustments with a slightly different wrist position, a different angle of the shoulder. I was able to find a position which was comfortable but felt the urge to resort back to my more usual and readily comfortable positions. This exercise was not just a game, who knows maybe being able to stay prone may save my life so I persisted. I needed a distraction and so while the prone position is not usually comfortable for me, I began to envision situations in which being prone might be fun. As most of you can imagine, my mind went almost immediately to sex. Past encounters, imagined encounters, film encounters, fantasy encounters they all came to mind and they all helped. Accept for a surprisingly rigid erection, the prone position became more and more comfortable. I feel asleep shortly thereafter and awoke six hours later still more or less in the same position. It may have been wishful thinking, but I did feel my breathing was easier and deeper. So I would like to thank Eric, Tristan, Vin, Steven, Victor, Stephen, Rick, and many others for their assistance in getting me to feel comfortable in the prone position and for helping reaffirm that I can get quite hard given the right thoughts, the right time and the right position.

I suggest you try lying prone, if that is not usually a position that is comfortable for you. You can use my helpful tip about staying in that position, hell you may even use some of the same fantasy men and real man memories. It may get you a good night's sleep, a substantial hard on and it could save your life.

[instudiocity]

My mother refused to allow my nannie to rock me to sleep. So the nannie chose to lay me down prone and pat my back until i was asleep. I slept prone from birth to at least into my early teens where post-orgasmic high caused me to go fast asleep supine.

 

Maybe now that I’m over 45, i need to flip back to prone?

Edited April 6, 2020 by instudiocity

[MikeBiDude]

I’m good sleeping prone, enjoy it. But sometimes a bit of acid reflux pops up, not bad but unpleasant.

[+ Reisr30]

I sleep mostly on my stomach but not sure if it qualifies as truly prone. I have shoulder issues and need to keep one shoulder kind of elevated. I’ll have to try this out...

[+ Charlie]

I have never been able to sleep on my stomach, but I have always had sinus problems, and when they seem particularly bad, I often flip over to my stomach long enough to breathe comfortably again.

[+ purplekow]

I have never been able to sleep on my stomach, but I have always had sinus problems, and when they seem particularly bad, I often flip over to my stomach long enough to breathe comfortably again.

I heard a rumor that you were not opposed to flipping

[+ Charlie]

Only for the right person...I meant reason!

[mike carey]

I heard a rumor that you were not opposed to flipping

Delighted to see you make a cheeky comment, PK.

[+ sniper]

My fitbit estimates oxygen variation while asleep(I assume it's a fairly crude measure as a flag for possible apnea) and I've noticed that when I sleep on my back the variation occasionally gets into the zone they flag, but when I sleep on my side it's totally fine. Maybe sleeping on your side would be enough?

[+ nycman]

You realize this whole Covid hoax is really just a ploy by us tops to get more of you to sleep ass up, right?

 

”It helps you breath better.....I promise. Come on, just try it.”

 

grin

[LivingnLA]

I decided to start another thread about proving as I mentioned it in another post and thought it is an interesting phenomena. It is becoming standard practice to place Covid patients with significant respiratory distress in the prone position. This started with patients on ventilators after a small series showed that it improved outcome and eased the work o oxygenation. The reasons for this benefit were not immediately clear but it seems to have to do with recruitment o previously underused airways and movement of fluids within the lungs. On a practical level, some people can lie prone quite comfortably and others cannot. I am one of the ones who cannot. So today, when I decided to take a nap, I decided to try and remain prone. I initially became uncomfortable and wanted to move. I became restless and began moving pillows and making minimal adjustments with a slightly different wrist position, a different angle of the shoulder. I was able to find a position which was comfortable but felt the urge to resort back to my more usual and readily comfortable positions. This exercise was not just a game, who knows maybe being able to stay prone may save my life so I persisted. I needed a distraction and so while the prone position is not usually comfortable for me, I began to envision situations in which being prone might be fun. As most of you can imagine, my mind went almost immediately to sex. Past encounters, imagined encounters, film encounters, fantasy encounters they all came to mind and they all helped. Accept for a surprisingly rigid erection, the prone position became more and more comfortable. I feel asleep shortly thereafter and awoke six hours later still more or less in the same position. It may have been wishful thinking, but I did feel my breathing was easier and deeper. So I would like to thank Eric, Tristan, Vin, Steven, Victor, Stephen, Rick, and many others for their assistance in getting me to feel comfortable in the prone position and for helping reaffirm that I can get quite hard given the right thoughts, the right time and the right position.

I suggest you try lying prone, if that is not usually a position that is comfortable for you. You can use my helpful tip about staying in that position, hell you may even use some of the same fantasy men and real man memories. It may get you a good night's sleep, a substantial hard on and it could save your life.

 

Makes sense when thinking about gravity, anatomy, physiology, and pleural pressure.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4173887/

 

Here's a more recent good study validating prone positioning for improving oxygenation and reducing ventilator induced injuries.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6997307/

[+ Gar1eth]

I’m good sleeping prone, enjoy it. But sometimes a bit of acid reflux pops up, not bad but unpleasant.

 

While it's been not done anymore because of an increased risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, American physicians who treated infants told caregivers to place their infants prone or on their side to reduce reflux symptoms. Prone (or side sleeping) was probably the advice given for at least 20 years.

 

Gman

[Islesguy]

I have always slept on my side and typically with my knees bent. Sleeping in my stomach would be near impossible for me at this point.

[CuriousByNature]

Thank you @purplekow. Yesterday I phoned my uncle who has COPD, and I asked him to try using the prone position. His oxygen saturation is normally around 91% or so.

 

My aunt called me back a few minutes after he was prone to tell me his saturation was at 96%. She hadn't seen a number like that since getting him the oximeter a couple of years ago.

 

Your advice is much appreciated - thank you again ?

[+ stevenkesslar]

So I would like to thank Eric, Tristan, Vin, Steven, Victor, Stephen, Rick, and many others for their assistance in getting me to feel comfortable in the prone position and for helping reaffirm that I can get quite hard given the right thoughts, the right time and the right position.

 

In addition to everything else unique about your writing skills, PK, you probably just came up the weirdest compliment any escort has ever been given. Who knew that escorts would be so much on top of things when it came to fighting COVID-19? Or perhaps you meant we had a unique ability to help you get to the bottom of things. Either way, it's a very kind thing of you to say.

 

And since we are being honest about touchy subjects like body positions and erections, would you mind if I asked for some medical advice relating to something we are probably all thinking about?

 

We keep being told never to put our hands on certain sensitive parts of our bodies. Because we never know what is on our fingers.

 

So to be on the safe side, I figured that I would try to do certain activities hands free, like this:

 

https://thumb-p8.xhcdn.com/a/CHA1DZ7B_QOvbRqikdcTmA/000/134/573/838_450.gif

 

I'm actually finding that it is harder [sic] to do this than it used to be. Do you have any medical advice for those of us trying to be careful about use of our hands?

 

And if push comes to shove, as it were, is it okay if we do this, as long as we wash our hands for 20 seconds afterward?

 

https://thumb-p9.xhcdn.com/a/VRDJjcd2ZD1-nn8vJLqcUg/000/097/022/439_450.gif

Edited April 7, 2020 by stevenkesslar

[+ stevenkesslar]

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I posted this video in another thread already. In the last minute of it (starting at 5:20) this doctor, who is now recovering from COVID-19, talks about proning herself.

[+ tassojunior]

I decided to start another thread about proving as I mentioned it in another post and thought it is an interesting phenomena. It is becoming standard practice to place Covid patients with significant respiratory distress in the prone position. This started with patients on ventilators after a small series showed that it improved outcome and eased the work o oxygenation. The reasons for this benefit were not immediately clear but it seems to have to do with recruitment o previously underused airways and movement of fluids within the lungs. On a practical level, some people can lie prone quite comfortably and others cannot. I am one of the ones who cannot. So today, when I decided to take a nap, I decided to try and remain prone. I initially became uncomfortable and wanted to move. I became restless and began moving pillows and making minimal adjustments with a slightly different wrist position, a different angle of the shoulder. I was able to find a position which was comfortable but felt the urge to resort back to my more usual and readily comfortable positions. This exercise was not just a game, who knows maybe being able to stay prone may save my life so I persisted. I needed a distraction and so while the prone position is not usually comfortable for me, I began to envision situations in which being prone might be fun. As most of you can imagine, my mind went almost immediately to sex. Past encounters, imagined encounters, film encounters, fantasy encounters they all came to mind and they all helped. Accept for a surprisingly rigid erection, the prone position became more and more comfortable. I feel asleep shortly thereafter and awoke six hours later still more or less in the same position. It may have been wishful thinking, but I did feel my breathing was easier and deeper. So I would like to thank Eric, Tristan, Vin, Steven, Victor, Stephen, Rick, and many others for their assistance in getting me to feel comfortable in the prone position and for helping reaffirm that I can get quite hard given the right thoughts, the right time and the right position.

I suggest you try lying prone, if that is not usually a position that is comfortable for you. You can use my helpful tip about staying in that position, hell you may even use some of the same fantasy men and real man memories. It may get you a good night's sleep, a substantial hard on and it could save your life.

 

 

What they tell those of us with sleep apnea is that the rear of the tongue becomes larger with extra weight and/or nerves and muscles in the rear of the tongue diminish ability to contract to open the throat during sleep. Sleeping on your stomach or even side lets gravity move the tongue and jaw forward to open the throat. I was able to defer using a CPAP for many years by flipping to stomach and side. Of course the virus fills parts of the lungs too. Everyone should have a thermometer and a oximeter for the virus check, They're about $30 on ebay and Amazon.