Hi all - I haven't been posting much since for the most part sleep has not been a tremendous problem in my life any more (YAAYYY).  The combination of getting used to CPAP, and a reduced Adderall dose has been great.

Anyway, I have discovered that the terrible aerophagia I used to experience is entirely related to sleeping on my side.   Has anyone else experienced this?  It's easy for me to "prove" - even 45 mins "nap" on my side leaves me totally full of gas, while I can spend all night on  my back with little or no problem.  For instance last night I woke up at some point in the morning and decided to roll over on my side - big mistake, woke up quite bloated.  The night before I did not, nothing happened

I just can't think of any logical reason this might be happening, yet it's very obvious.   Learning to sleep on my back only has really helped prevent aerophagia and led to much better sleep...  Which is sort of ironic as I used to always sleep on my back, until I discovered side sleeping was supposed to help apnea, and started doing that to "treat" my apnea before I got CPAP.

I only have aerophagia on my side too.  

I had also trained myself to sleep on my side and have been experimenting with back sleeping but my pressure goes up much higher when I'm on my back and that wakes me up.  So I'm still side sleeping and treating my GERD and hoping for the best.

What I don't understand is why some nights the aerophagia is really bad and other night's it's mild.

every mourning i get stomach pain.  and sometimes its hard to move from the pain . anyone else suffer from this , and how do you cure it?

the opening to the stomach is more so on the right side of the stomach vs. the top.  As a result, the effects of Acid Reflux are less likely to occur if you sleep on your left side (vs. the right) as this places the opening to the stomach up vs. down when sleeping on your right side.

A damaged LES from GERD can allow cpap pressure to bypass the LES and enter the stomach.  If you can treat your GERD so the LES is allowed to seal it can prevent that pressure from entering the stomach.   Lower pressure also helps, ask your doctor.