Radix, if you don’t mind, would you answer a question for me? I’m wondering if being on a cpap is healthy. Seems like everyone I know is using them and medical is really pushing them. What do you think of their efficacy vs risks?
Are they getting money for prescribing them? And there is the monthly monitoring fee that is automatic from then on. Do they get a kickback?
ThankQ!
My thoughts on CPAP. I don’t know if I need it. I do snore. I haven’t had a sleep study done because I wouldn’t be able to sleep. The way I look at it at 58 is, if I die while sleeping...? I’m not seeing a down side.
-SB
CPAP (AKA PEEP) is for Oxygenation and definitely saves lives and provides other benefits. When people suddenly cease breathing during slumber the O2 deprivation can result in serious damage. CPAP helps remedy that. The flow is constant and static. One simply breathes through it. Over it, under it (non invasive Oxygenation.) it is a greatly preferred method of delivering assistance in these situations. Unfortunately many do not tolerate this therapy. People decide that suddenly they are claustrophobic and the facial confinement stresses them out.
Such ones are usually intubated or ‘tubed’ which requires constant monitoring and maintenance. Ordinarily sedation is needed because being intubated while alert and oriented and being ventilated freaks awake people out, unless they are trached, (hole in neck.)
I have actually considered ‘borrowing) a BIPAP machine for my SOB. Years ago I was SOB prior to open heart surgery. I simply was unable to ventilate and in such circumstances people will do a lot to fix that. I have never used BIPAP but I would prefer to have a unit on hand if I could afford one.
Most persons adjust to the mask and therapy rather quickly once they are not panicking. Often people find wearing the contraption very relaxing. The ‘nasal pillows’ are very popular but minimally effective. Hospitals tend to not use them, especially ICUs.
Better to wear CPAP nocturnally than to be crashing cars during commuting hours. It is a very helpful and worthy method of resolving certain more minor ventilation issues or rather Oxygenation problems. BIPAP deals with both ventilation and Oxygenation with its two levels of positive pressure. This is a terrific business to get into. A lot of money but if you qualify, you must be utilized in order to maintain the illusion that home health care though necessary is also not a huge racket with lots of backsheesh involved.
If they'd just stop eating seed oils that would all go away. I've noticed that the folks on the cpap are mostly fat, or are most people just fat? I can't tell anymore. Anyway, eat fat, not oil.