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ChadTower:
Been there, done that, have a very nice autoadjusting CPAP with heated humidifier. It never did help very much. When I was tested I had something like 160 incidents that night in about 3 hours of test time. It just didn't help enough to tolerate the issues that come along with it, I was at the 400 hour mark and still hadn't gotten much more than what I'd estimate as a 10-15% difference.
FrizzleFried:
Other things to look in to: I had a deviated septum, had that fixed (damn that sucked, but it helped a bit). Have you "Adnoids(sp?)" looked in to...mine were removed...helped a little.
Finally, there is a surgery to remove excess "fatty tissue" in the neck. It is supposed to help, I elected not to do it as the CPAP worked for me.
I also hear there is a pill in clinical study that is supposed to help?
ChadTower:
The tissue removal surgery has way too low a success rate to be worth trying. I do not have a deviated septum.
I have a couple of contributing factors: a thicker than average neck and I'm overweight. I'm working on the weight issue now and am approaching 20% bodyfat. I'm going to get myself to 10-15% bodyfat and see how that affects it. I'm already a little better at around 22% than I was at 24%.
The CPAP actually still sits on a shelf next to my bed. Sometimes I use it but for the most part it causes as many issues as it may eventually solve.
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Dude, quitting smoking is easy!
It's that not starting again part that is a Mother F'er
I've quit about 200 times so far, piece of cake.
(Longest was about 1 & 1/2 years.)
I mostly miss the Menthol flavor, sometimes strong mint candy helps with that. I.E. Altoids.
Tip for Shardian, to stop biting fingernails . . .
Less hand washing, more butt scratching.
OK seriously, I found my nail biting thing to be more of a nervous impulse. Any imperfection in the surface causes me to pick at it, then I end up tearing it or trying to bite at it. I now keep one of them little red Swiss army things on my keys and use the file to smooth off the edges or clip the hangnails before I pick at them and make em worse.
shmokes:
The brain damage that would go along with depriving your brain of oxygen for five minutes straight actally explains a lot about your posts. ;D
Sleep apnea weirds me out. I was camping with a friend who was mildly snoring and once every 2-3 minutes he would just stop breathing altogether for about 15-30 seconds, after which he would take a sudden, sharp breath as though his body was panicking (which I suppose it probably was). It was creepy. I told him about it the next day. He obviously didn't know he had sleep apnea and I get the impression that he didn't really believe it. Oh well.
It's probably a stretch to apply this to sleep apnea, but have any of you with sleep problems tried melatonin? I used to have serious insomnia problems and since I started taking melatonin I am always asleep within 5-10 minutes of going to bed and I sleep through the night. The great thing is there are simply no side effects. No sleeping-pill hangover. They don't make you feel loopy or weird, or even different in any way. They don't knock you out, like a sedative. You just drift into sleep normally, and wake up normally. It's great.
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