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Did a physician inform you about the sleeping-on-side hack?
I personally know of an instance where a person had gastric reflux, went to the doctor, was prescribed a proton pump inhibitor as the sole treatment (Nexum), didn't get any better, went poking around the internet with google, and got non-medicine lifestyle adjustments (elevated bed head, fasting for five hours before bedtime) to fix their reflux problem. Then, later they told the doctor, who said nothing but "oh yeah".
We had no google in 1988 although surely some futurist genius somewhere foresaw it.
I got the sleeping on the left side hack from the wikipedia article.
Seth Roberts posts articles now and then about physicians not being interested in patients who find (cheap/simple) cures for themselves.