Funny how you mention about sleeping on the sides for too long. I'm not a stomach sleeper and always sleeps on either side for too long, with occasional belly sleeping to keep my back cool, and flip back to keep my belly cool. Too much pressures on a too stiff or too soft bed can develop long term pressure point issues, which leads to arthritis. I feel your pain brother. My right wrist (damaged from martial arts) and left arm are suffering similar. I use my wife as pillow to rest 45% of my stomach on, while 55% the remaining stomach is on the bed to prevent acid reflux (acid pushing up into your throat from compressed stomach). Very uncomfortable feeling. I use a memory foam pillow to assist with comfort and pain reduction during hot days when my wife feels like a freaking oven while cuddling. Something to think about. The
red light therapy also helps quite a bit in reducing overall pains from arthritis as well. Might was to use
MOS Red a bit more extensively. Not sure how high of the NIR spectrum
MOS Red goes up to beside the 850 nm, but my BioMax 900 goes toward 1100 nm. The inflammation and arthritis is around 840 nm to 930 nm using NIR+ for deep tissue inflammation control.
Since I'm currently off it to do trial test without the
red light therapy, I can feel the difference within two weeks. Longer soreness and phantom pains from arthritis returned. Still have one more month to go before I can use the
red light again.