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Acquaintances that have used CPAP have said that it is a life changing machine? How true is that? That it makes you super human. Tons of energy and extra sharpness during the day.
If someone has sleep disordered breathing (also called sleep apnea) they feel crummy due to lack of restorative (good quality) sleep. They can also develop serious health problems including atrial fibrillation, congestive heart failure and pulmonary hypertension. Affected individuals who are properly treated with CPAP or BiPAP not only feel much better but will probably avoid or delay the complications of this disorder.
Acquaintances that have used CPAP have said that it is a life changing machine? How true is that? That it makes you super human. Tons of energy and extra sharpness during the day.
How do you determine if you have sleep apnea?
How do you determine if you have sleep apnea?
A number of years ago, before I had ever heard of sleep apnea, someone told me he had surgery for snoring. Wow, I thought that was a pretty radical solution for snoring but then maybe it was connected to sleep apnea. This guy was in no way heavy and probably fit in the "normal" BMI range.There are surgical solutions. But these are not as common as prescribing a CPAP machine.
A number of years ago, before I had ever heard of sleep apnea, someone told me he had surgery for snoring. Wow, I thought that was a pretty radical solution for snoring but then maybe it was connected to sleep apnea. This guy was in no way heavy and probably fit in the "normal" BMI range.
Makes your male member grow also. Better than the pills.
Does that only work if you have sleep apnea? If not, where can I get one of those machines?That is actually true!
A dry mouth usually means you are mouth-breathing. Air enters your nose, exits your mouth and dries everything out. Basically, there is a short circuit in your airway. It also means you probably aren't getting the full benefits of CPAP therapy since the excess pressure that should keep your throat open is escaping.
That isn't to say that leaks couldn't contribute to dry mouth at times due to the added air flow.
Pressure is low 7. I am convinced the machine occasionally is recording events that are not real. I have worn the mask doing nothing but laying there breathing and it has recorded events and I am not even asleep. The machine does its best to guess but sometimes is wrong.
I've heard that surgery, UPPP, is considered a success if it cuts your apnea numbers in half. The problerm with that is that you may still have enough apneas to meet an OSA diagnosis. Plus, the one year results normally show a certain degree of apneas coming back.
While I don't have OSA, I've had a UPPP for "heroic" snoring. It was painful. Very painful. Also had tonsils out. It helped a little initially, but I still snore pretty badly...my wife is the one who can't sleep.
Hey, check this out. I found an android app called sleepbot that you set it, and keep the phone in bed with you, and it records movement and sound then displays it graphically.
It says it can even wake you up at your lightest sleep point so you get better rest.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lslk.sleepbot&hl=en
Loosing weight helps with that too. :wink2:
For you CPAP users I am struggling with incredibly dry mouth some nights. I have a humidifier and I have it set fairly high if I turn it higher I get rain out. Anyone else have other suggestions?
As for the topic I would say that I haven't noticed any major measurable affect on my life in the 40 days I have used it. I have been compliant since the day I got it I have fallen short of the 6 hours on three nights. 2 by less than 5 mins and the third I got called out to a structure fire at 3:15AM so nothing I could do about that. I have averaged just under 7 hours a night use.
That is not to say there is no improvement. Who knows what is happening that I can't see or sense. I will say I don't wake up with an apnea headache (didn't happen all the time but now doesn't happen) when I ended up sleeping on my back?
I may be an anomaly anyway as I was rarely (would never say never) excessively tired in the afternoons before CPAP and I am not now. I have always felt I was a pretty clear thinker with good judgment before. If CPAP has improved that well then I will start checking the mail for my Nobel prize.
I know it profoundly effects some people I just haven't seen a real "awakening" (get it) for myself at this point maybe that will change. I do know that my AHI with it is 1.23 on average and without it was in the 20s at my sleep test. It wasn't hard getting used to and if it improves my health then it is a small price to pay.
since this thread is just about done - the following is more about OSA than CPAP, but I just got back from the dentist. Spent an hour fighting OSA in the damn dentist chair ... really really disconcerting to have OSA kick in and block the exhale until I could either wiggle my tongue or jaw into a non-blocking mode and then breathe again.
One would think I could have found a position that did not induce OSA, but sure enough, given a few minutes of normal breathing, I would obstruct again. I warned the doc before-hand about it and told him "If I turn blue or wave a hand, pull back because I'm either sitting up or passing out".
Dentists chair Apnea episodes is actually how I convinced myself to believe my wife that something wasn't quite right. She told me for years that I stopped breathing at night.
Greg; would using your CPAP machine and a nasal mask have helped in that situation?
Does that only work if you have sleep apnea? If not, where can I get one of those machines?
Greg; would using your CPAP machine and a nasal mask have helped in that situation?