CPAP - anyone use one?

tonyb

Staring at a PC monitor all day has that effect Cathy. Decouple yourself from that screen and walk around, do something a bit more active if you can to break it up.

Sleep disorders are usually a sign of something more serious going on yet to be found or admitted to. Such as excessive drinking, eating habits, lack of exercise....poor health in general. Smokers usually always snore, they are trained to breath threw their mouth and not their nose. That carries itself into breathing as they sleep. Throat dries out, snoring entails....beating from the wife over the head to stop snoring follows.

lightman1

tonyb wrote: »

Staring at a PC monitor all day has that effect Cathy. Decouple yourself from that screen and walk around, do something a bit more active if you can to break it up.

Sleep disorders are usually a sign of something more serious going on yet to be found or admitted to. Such as excessive drinking, eating habits, lack of exercise....poor health in general. Smokers usually always snore, they are trained to breath threw their mouth and not their nose. That carries itself into breathing as they sleep. Throat dries out, snoring entails....beating from the wife over the head to stop snoring follows.

Counterpoint, Tony. My ex-wife was a two cig a day smoker and had a deviated septum in the schnozz. Terrible sounds eminated from that noggin at night.
We got her fixed up and breathing right at night.
She didn't know how bad it was.
We, as the male gender, are not exclusive to the nocturnal nasal rumblings.

cfrizz

tonyb wrote: »

Staring at a PC monitor all day has that effect Cathy. Decouple yourself from that screen and walk around, do something a bit more active if you can to break it up.

Sleep disorders are usually a sign of something more serious going on yet to be found or admitted to. Such as excessive drinking, eating habits, lack of exercise....poor health in general. Smokers usually always snore, they are trained to breath threw their mouth and not their nose. That carries itself into breathing as they sleep. Throat dries out, snoring entails....beating from the wife over the head to stop snoring follows.

It doesn't make a bit of difference Tony, especially at 10:00 in the morning. I could drop off anywhere at any time. 7:00 in the morning going into work on the train, I could feel my phone that I'm reading on AND listening to music on start to slip out of my hand!

Other than being over weight, and not getting enough exercise, I'm fairly healthy. I'm hoping that now that my energy is coming back, I'll be able to get a bit more exercise.

Joey_V

Glad you got a cpap cathy, take care of yourself.

ZLTFUL

Or in some cases, you have a genetically deformed airway that causes your airway to close off when you become completely relaxed. I had something like 45 incidents per hour. My brother even more. My biological mother, similar to my brother and my sister, slightly lower than me. Our mother is obese.
I was but had gastric sleeve surgery and dropped 110lbs (still losing) but was retested after dropping 100 or so lbs and was still just as bad.
Even my former boss who was very active, never a smoker, not a heavy drinker and was rail thin suffered from sleep apnea because of a malfrmed airway. He even had a corrective surgery which failed to resolve the issue.

Yes, overweight/smokers/drinkers tend to be more susceptible but it isn't the only causes.

Stew

cfrizz wrote: »

If you are dragging around with no energy, or find yourself falling asleep at inopportune moments, then don't wait! Get tested and get one.

Thanks Cathy. I'm somewhere in between. Dragging some days but not falling asleep at my desk. I'll have to think about this one.

Stew

Joey_V wrote: »

The Audioquest wels are my new best friend

Maybe I'll tell the wife I need some of these for sleep apnea.