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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!

 :soapbox:

 :laugh2:

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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