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ChadTower:

--- Quote from: SithMaster on October 05, 2008, 08:55:47 pm ---Isn't the insomnia better than not breathing?

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Sleep deprivation is pretty much the same either way.  It just builds up faster when you're not sleeping at all than it does when you're sleeping in 15 minute increments.  It's not like people stop breathing while they're awake.

Singapura:

--- Quote ---Isn't the insomnia better than not breathing?
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Not breathing is a pretty good cure for insomnia  8)

FrizzleFried:
I use a regular ole mask because I am afraid to try something else.  This works.  I want to try the nasal pillows though.  There is also a real expensive mask that actually snaps to your teeth (you have to have it fitted of course) so there isn't a problem with tossing and turning and having the mask come off...it sounds like it would be uncomfortable though.

shardian:

--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on October 05, 2008, 11:23:19 am ---During my sleep study I averaged 32 times per hour that I'd stop breathing.  The shortest being 3 to 4 seconds and the longest being over 110 seconds!!  I finally went in to be tested when one night I woke up BLUE and having a REAL hard time breathing.  The doctor estimates I could have been not breathing for over 3 or 4 minutes in that case.  It scared the ---Cleveland steamer--- out of me. 

PRE-CPAP:  I'd have to get up and piss a MINIMUM of once per night,  averaged 2 times per night,  sometimes 3 times per night.  EVERY night.

POST-CPAP: The very first day I used the machine I slept through the entire night without getting up to piss once.  It's THAT much of a difference.


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IIRC, my wife stopped around 22 times an hour, with the longest being 1 minute or so. She was shocked that was considered not being apnea. She also goes to the bathroom several times a night. I figured it was because she was a woman.

shardian:

--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on October 02, 2008, 09:25:21 pm ---
  When I was 5yrs old,  I was watching  TV.    On comes a commercial about Asthma.
I see this poor kid gasping and choking for air.    Strangely enough,  I thought to
myself:  "How am I breathing?"    As I never really pondered it before.

 All the sudden, I found that I could not physically breath anymore.   It was like I
forgot how to do it for a moment... and then it wouldnt re-start!   I was gasping my last
breaths singnaling to my mom,  trying to blurt out that I couldnt breath...

 Then,  she Slaps me heavily on the back and said something mean like: "Stop being an
Idiot".    As if I was faking the event.
 
 At the moment she hit me... it snapped my system out of the problem,
and I was able to finally breath again.

 
 I never faked the event... and I remember the day it happened almost like it
was yesterday.  It was scary as hell.   


 My point being... is that the Mind controls the bodys functions.   It somehow the
mind gets out of balance,  things can be thrown for a loop.   However,  things
like Meditation can help re-center the brain.

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I hate to say it, but if your mind is that 'out of center', you might need medication. The stuff you say sometimes freaks me out dude!

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