If you’re feeling bad and run down it may be sleep apnea. After I started using a CPAP things improved quite a lot.
When my wife let me know she could not sleep with my snoring, I told my doctor about it. He recommended a sleep-test. The testing revealed that I did indeed have sleep apnea. He had two recommendations:
lose lard and use a CPAP machine.
Such good advice. My wife can now relax and get rest, and I feel so much better.
Ok, gotta wise off. Thought the title was CRAP provides relief from depression. Perhaps if it’s been a couple days... Must get new glasses!
Maybe it's me, but I'm not up for a third attempt to smother. I'm divorced, and have no desire to grab another hot stove, so, there is that. I don't have to deal with someone else's crazy.
25 years ago, I gained about 10 pounds and started snoring at night and for me on the depressive side.
My wife told me to lose weight and I did, and my snoring got worse. our FP connected me with a Sleep Center Doc out of Stanford. We picked up a sleep monitor and spent the weekend in Carmel. I dropped the machine off at his office Monday, and he said that I had severe sleep apnea.
He lined me up to try/rent a machine in my hometown. It was uncomfortable to use. However, the guys who owned the CP business were friends and former customers. They made several house calls and got me stabilized and using a water heater and a heated hose warm up the air to about 68-70 degrees.
They were great, and helped me to up grade to better machines, masks, hoses and head gear.
They sold out to a group of crooks. They wanted me to have a weekly visit with a non nurse to take my BP once to twice a week and charge me $50/visit. My wife was a life time RN and took BP’s in a busy FP medical practice office, and they said I had to use their GED non nurse. My doctor and local lawyer took care of that. Later a new machine died and shorted out after a few months. They denied that it was the machine, which it turned out to be.
My FP and I went to an evening class for a couple of weeks to learn what to do and not to do. In the meantime several online providers were selling good Cpap equipment to end users after they received an RX from the patient’s doctor.
So I have been doing that for a couple of decades. A lot of the gear can be ordered from Amazon without and an RX.
My current and best ever CPAP machine is a Phillips Dream Station with a heated filtered water container, with the heated hose and the Wisp mask.
Each morning on my smart phone I get a read out about the # of apneas and other data on my smart phone. Once a month, I download that that data on my Chromebook and up to the Cloud. My doctor can look at it via the internet. That makes it like going to a sleep lab every night in your own bed.
My wife can usually predict what the daily printout will look like.
We have had multiple forest fires for two summers/falls in a roll. The filtering and humidifying system removes the pollen and I have minimal problems with the fallout.
This year after a heavy rainy winter/spring, our pollen counts are off the wall. However the cpap machine’s filtering and humidifying system removes the pollen enabling me to have a good night’s sleep. Apparently, some docs have cracked this code for allergic patients.
If you need a Cpap machine get one and use it for better living for you and your spouse.
I had OSA for years.
Cervical pillow plus Water/Salt protocol took care of it completely. No CPAP.
See Fereydoon Batmanghelidj: Your Body’s Many Cries for Water.
watercure.com. watercure2.org.
Don’t know what I would do without my CPAP. Can’t sleep without it anymore. I’m worried that it might conk out on me and I’ll have to suffer while I go through the process of getting a new one.
CPAP is a life saver. Best thing I ever did.