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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.

_) (V) (-):
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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