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Use the device you can consistently use, as either reduces problems the same, as long as they get used.
1 posted on 04/11/2024 9:38:34 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
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2 posted on 04/11/2024 9:39:03 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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It’s too bad there aren’t any more EPAP. That was a good option.


3 posted on 04/11/2024 9:40:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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CPAPs are medieval instruments of torture. If anyone knows of a good MAD, please post it here.


4 posted on 04/11/2024 9:42:23 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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I have severe sleep apnea. The initial sleep study found that I stopped breathing, on average, every two minutes, during obstruction episodes. My blood/oxygen would fall as low as 84% in that time.

It took me more than two years to find the right CPAP device and medication combinations to let me sleep comfortably. I don’t think six months is a long enough study period.

Reduction in sleep apnea events to near zero did not reduce my blood pressure at all.


6 posted on 04/11/2024 11:08:06 PM PDT by jimtorr
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https://www.sleepfoundation.org/cpap/apap-vs-cpap


7 posted on 04/11/2024 11:08:37 PM PDT by Paladin2
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“mandibular advancement device”

these things will soon completely destroy your temporomandibular joints ...


8 posted on 04/11/2024 11:12:26 PM PDT by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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I had a MAD device 25 or 30 years ago.

I never got to find out if it helped with sleep apnea, since it produced severe and very painful TMJ in my jaw. I only got to use it for a week, but no refunds.


9 posted on 04/12/2024 12:50:52 AM PDT by CurlyDave
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13 posted on 04/12/2024 5:02:01 AM PDT by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam)
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I get obstructive apnea if I sleep on my back. (I also have neurological apnea.) For the obstructive apnea, I’ve always wondered whether a simple chin strap would work, but I wouldn’t want to devise one of my own and end up cutting off circulation to my brain because then my kid would have to put with CNN.


14 posted on 04/12/2024 5:24:27 AM PDT by dangus
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MAD was very uncomfortable for me

CPAP never an issue unless I’m without it

They are also used as breathing assist device for the non asleep with COPD

Never got all the complaining here over them


17 posted on 04/12/2024 6:56:43 AM PDT by wardaddy (. A disease in the public mind btw Alina Habba is fine as grits)
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I honestly love my cpap

As much as I love my eight year old Rottweiler

Rommel

Which is a lot

Women

Cigars

Rommel CPAP tie

Been on one since 2003

Was waking 50-60 times an hour

Enlarged uvula etc


18 posted on 04/12/2024 7:14:09 AM PDT by wardaddy (. A disease in the public mind btw Alina Habba is fine as grits)
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