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ChadTower:
--- Quote from: shmokes on February 22, 2007, 11:22:02 am ---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
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It's actually more like 150 instances of 30-60 seconds of deprivation. It lowers the blood oxygen levels progressively. Each person is different, obviously, and my oxysat counts never got below 90% during the tests. That means that while I have a lot of incidents that destroy the quality of my sleep, I don't suffer nearly as much of the metabolic disruption as other people with the same number of incidents. The tech's theory was that it was a function of being in far better condition than the average in my incident range. My problems are all on the less dangerous side.
--- Quote ---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).
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It is the fight or flight response of suffocation. Put your head underwater for a minute straight and see how your body reacts. Now imagine doing that while asleep and without the rational involvement of doing it intentionally.
--- Quote ---It's probably a stretch to apply this to sleep apnea, but have any of you with sleep problems tried melatonin?
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Different concept. There are two types of sleep apnea: obstructive and central. Obstructive is simply that your esophagus closes off and you can't get air through. Central is a disruption of the unconscious cognitive signal to breathe. Neither one is a function of the inability to get to sleep. Both are functions of the inability to sustain breathing while sleeping.
shmokes:
Have you ever considered hooking yourself up to a respirator while you sleep, like coma patients? ;D
ChadTower:
That's what a CPAP machine is. It's a computer controlled air compressor. It blows into a rubber tube that attaches to a breathing mask. The mask uses very precise amounts of air pressure to force your esophagus to stay open. The mask most often prescribed is very much like a ventilator mask. I couldn't use it, I freaked out after about 90 seconds. Claustrophobia. My heart rate was at like 175bpm just lying there.
EDIT: erm, not esophagus, airway. You're not eating the air. ;D
FrizzleFried:
--- Quote ---The brain damage that would go along with depriving your brain of oxygen for five minutes straight actally explains a lot about your posts.
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BASTARD!
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FrizzleFried:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 22, 2007, 03:12:32 pm ---
That's what a CPAP machine is. It's a computer controlled air compressor. It blows into a rubber tube that attaches to a breathing mask. The mask uses very precise amounts of air pressure to force your esophagus to stay open. The mask most often prescribed is very much like a ventilator mask. I couldn't use it, I freaked out after about 90 seconds. Claustrophobia. My heart rate was at like 175bpm just lying there.
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I've used the regular ole' mask that covers the nose and straps around the head. I used the nose "cushions" that only tough the nostrils. I even paid a pretty penny for a mask that snaps on my teeth. The one I go back to most is the regular ole' mask...silicone edges...
The teeth one works kickass except it gives me a toothache after a couple days using it.
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