Sleep Apnea Will Ruin Your Life!/ FDA has approved weight-loss drug Zepbound to treat obstructive sleep apnea
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I have one. Its kinda high pricey but it keeps your masks clean bruh. And it saves you mad time. Just throw your masks and tube in it. Hit the button and do what you have too around the house or go to work. When you get ready to go to bed just take your mask out and use it. It feels brand new.
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I do work about 70-90 hrs a week. Corrections hours can be crazy. I work the overnight. I do get caught up on sleep on my days off. The machine helps me out so much. Even when I'm working 16hrs. a good 5hrs with the machine and I'm fresh ready to go back at it.
I've heard mixed reviews on that. Some say it works good but too many says it leaves a funny burnt smell on your mask that is unbearable. I'm not fuckin with it. Shits expensive as hell too.
I went and bought the mouth piece.
What is suppose to be up with the crushed asprin?
Allegedly gets into the system faster. Btw the mouth piece will help your snoring not sleep apnea
The mouth piece was designed for sleep apnea. It is not a regular mouth piece was the only reason why I bought it.
Are you saying that aspirin helps to fight against sleep apnea? I might start carrying some around with me all the time
I've heard mixed reviews on that. Some say it works good but too many says it leaves a funny burnt smell on your mask that is unbearable. I'm not fuckin with it. Shits expensive as hell too.
I tried it briefly, I had to send it back. The smell gave me a headache. Thankfully I was able to use a mouth guard type appliance instead of the CPAP.
I'd say just make sure to buy it from Amazon, that way you can easily return it if you don't like it.
It helps. I am some what puzzled at the whole sleep apnea thing. But anything that helps your heart should be taken seriously. And defeating sleep apnea does that.How is it? Does it help?
If I can remember what I read without going back he said one side affect of the apnea was headaches when he woke up so I assume the powdered pills were for that
Yes! If you're not familiar with the symptoms you might just think it's any or everything else, like I did. Also, for most of the years that I was dealing with it, I was living in Quarters and my wife was back home.
When I'd come home on a Pass or Leave, she thought at first the I was sleeping off a bender or something from all of my snoring. She did her own study of me through the nights and noted that I'd stop breathing until I "came up for air" but still didn't think anything about sleep apnea.
If you're sleeping alone and having fits trying to get a full night's sleep being constantly interrupted, you may not realize it. If your woman is laying beside you, she's gonna be pissed because SHE can't get a good night of sleep so she's gonna look to see what the hell you're doing over there and take notice.
Read up man. That shit is more than just an overweight issue. Skinny people have sleep apnea as well.
Good discussion, everyone. Always helpful reading peoples’ 1st hand accounts. Looking forward to some time off in late-Nov and into Dec. Got
some holidays planned and nice to have the extra R&R at home when the weather is bleak. Better rest too.
some holidays planned and nice to have the extra R&R at home when the weather is bleak. Better rest too.
I've had my AutoPAP since 2015 I think. I got it through the American Sleep Apnea Association after contacting Tracy Nasca that works there. I got it for $100, it was the Resmed S9. I still have it.
I also have a newer Resmed AirSense S10 through my Obamacare insurance company. I've traveled with both, it packs up easy.
My only problem is making myself put on my mask when I lay down, keeping it clean (I got a few respiratory infections last year and i figured out it was the AutoPAP), and it giving me an audacious amount of gas in the morning.
I literally fart and burp for an hour laying there after waking up. It's fun sometimes, but sometimes its uncomfortable and I be having shit to do
I also have a newer Resmed AirSense S10 through my Obamacare insurance company. I've traveled with both, it packs up easy.
My only problem is making myself put on my mask when I lay down, keeping it clean (I got a few respiratory infections last year and i figured out it was the AutoPAP), and it giving me an audacious amount of gas in the morning.
I literally fart and burp for an hour laying there after waking up. It's fun sometimes, but sometimes its uncomfortable and I be having shit to do
That's interesting re: the side effects in the AM. Do you still use both machines, or primarily one over the other now?
I was diagnosed with sleep apnea 7 years ago and I will tell that CPAP has done wonders with me to the point where I don't even snore anymore when I don't use it. When I took my sleep study before I was diagnosed, my doctor told me that I didn't breathe 72 times an hour within a 6 hour sleep period. Man that shit had me shook.
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Just the new machine, the S9 is packed in it's carry bag in case I need to grab & go or late for a flight, if i have time I'll pack the new one for a trip.
Definitely do not forget to take your machine with you on vacation or any trip fellas.
I have it and have had it for over 10 years as I lay in bed typing with my mask on.
Symptoms for me were falling asleep anywhere / anytime I wasn't active or bored and loud snoring per my ex-wife.
I was told by a Dr., that individuals with a 17"+ neck were most susceptible to having it.
I eventually got nagged and had a sleep study at a sleep lab. The results were that I stopped breathing about 100/ time per night and reached over 75 decibels.
I got the machine, fought using it and then stopped using it.
Time flew, got divorced met a new chick who said I snored and I was then inspired to change.
I saw a good ENT Dr., who got me in for an exam and prescribed having surgery for a deviated septum and enlarged turbinates. That shit feels like you met the fat part of a baseball bat with your face, but the results of surgery were great.
I started using a newer C-pap as prescribed and no longer fall asleep everywhere.
At night, the hose can wake you up when you roll over but you'll awake, clear the hose and soon be back to sleep.
I don't have a regular sleeping schedule but I add 3 MG. of melatonin and wake up largely at daylight everyday and never feel tired.
For all, I'd recommend going to an ENT first as a sleep dr. will put you on c-pap as fast as a Dr in Appalachia will put you on oxycodone.
Symptoms for me were falling asleep anywhere / anytime I wasn't active or bored and loud snoring per my ex-wife.
I was told by a Dr., that individuals with a 17"+ neck were most susceptible to having it.
I eventually got nagged and had a sleep study at a sleep lab. The results were that I stopped breathing about 100/ time per night and reached over 75 decibels.
I got the machine, fought using it and then stopped using it.
Time flew, got divorced met a new chick who said I snored and I was then inspired to change.
I saw a good ENT Dr., who got me in for an exam and prescribed having surgery for a deviated septum and enlarged turbinates. That shit feels like you met the fat part of a baseball bat with your face, but the results of surgery were great.
I started using a newer C-pap as prescribed and no longer fall asleep everywhere.
At night, the hose can wake you up when you roll over but you'll awake, clear the hose and soon be back to sleep.
I don't have a regular sleeping schedule but I add 3 MG. of melatonin and wake up largely at daylight everyday and never feel tired.
For all, I'd recommend going to an ENT first as a sleep dr. will put you on c-pap as fast as a Dr in Appalachia will put you on oxycodone.
Damn this post is right on time. Does anyone have sleep apnea due to large tonsils? I’ve had issues with chronic sinus infections so I finally went to an ear, nose, and throat doctor and he had a look at my tonsils and said they are a grade 4. (The scale goes from 0-4). Then he started asking all these questions about how I sleep at night and if I every get a full nights sleep but still wake up tired. I told him thats like my norm and he said it’s probably because I have sleep apnea due to large tonsils and I’m not getting enough air with Ike I’m breathing at night. I have a surgery scheduled next month to remove my tonsils and adenoids. Also I’m not overweight at all so sleep apnea can effect anyone.
Hopefully your bro is getting disability, it's an automatic 50%
Your story reminds me of my partner Otis. He was the first person I'd ever known to have sleep apnea back in the late nineties. The Brother was an O lineman all the way up through DIII college for a couple of years.
He used to fall asleep on his feet mid sentence sometimes. We'd be fucking with him when he'd doze off and because I knew his wife, I'd throw shit like the oddest grocery list of shit for him to pick up on the way home.
This was the military, so I wouldn't let muhfuckas use any twisted ass humor on him. After a minute or so, he'd come back around..."Y'all was fuckin' wit me wasn't y'all?
"(My wife would later admit in frustration to one of her sisters over the phone
to having always tried to get info out of me while I was sleeping but all I would ever talk about is work related shit.
)Fast forward several years, it only got worse so he sought treatment and had to undergo surgery. That's about the only dude not related to me that I went to the hospital with and stayed there until he was in recovery.
After that, he changed his diet, cut back on his Cigar habit...he actually used to inhale them stogies
, and shed a lot of the weight that he had always carried outside of playing football. I don't know that he's ever used a CPAP in all that time either.Your CPAP pressure might be up too high. If so, you might notice your belly getting bigger and have lots of burping, and gas.