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sleep apnea
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sleep apnea


Jan 17, 2019, 10:00 AM

anyone have this?

been tested?

sleep with the machine or anything?

I think it's time for me to get tested.

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Another way to phrase this


Jan 17, 2019, 10:02 AM

Who is fat and has trouble sleeping?

Siri us answer: Try it out. Research sleep docs to find one who will take the time to get your mask settings adjusted just right.

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The road goes on forever and the party never ends...


I always poke the hornet's nest with this one.....


Jan 17, 2019, 10:05 AM

It's real. Many people suffer from it. Many people could die from it eventually. CPAP machines are life changing for a lot of people.


WITH THAT SAID AND ACKNOWLEDGED, think about everyone you know who has had a sleep study. Can you think of ANY of them who weren't diagnosed with sleep apnea and sent home with a CPAP machine? If you can, I bet it's an outlier, like one person out of 20.

Point being, it might be a legit diagnosis, but I think there's a lot of bulllshit in the sleep study industry. I did one, was told I had "mild sleep apnea" but needed a CPAP machine. Tried it for two nights and realized it sucked out loud sleeping with that mask....lost 15 pounds and the problem went away.

Your mileage may vary.

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i think the weight loss and drinking less


Jan 17, 2019, 10:08 AM

could alleviate a lot of it.

I'm 6 foot 205 and could stand to drop 15-20

I imagine sleeping with that thing would be as you said.

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I've had two sleep studies. I'm an outlier. Twice.***


Jan 17, 2019, 10:10 AM [ in reply to I always poke the hornet's nest with this one..... ]



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two? because the first one was so fun?***


Jan 17, 2019, 10:10 AM



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Because I was sleepy during the day


Jan 17, 2019, 10:12 AM

And wife said I snored.

Now wife snores like Paul Bunyan. She will stop breathing at times too. She had one because I told her this, and she checked out fine. So there's three I guess.

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No, no, no.....


Jan 17, 2019, 10:13 AM

you can't count yourself twice.

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I had two. Wife had one. Three total. No CPAP needed


Jan 17, 2019, 10:15 AM

My first one was YEARS ago when I weighed 250. Doc said I should get one since I snore, plus weight.

Second was from wife telling me I snore louder now, and was sleepy during the day. Like 15 years apart.

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Do you not snore?***


Jan 17, 2019, 10:13 AM [ in reply to I always poke the hornet's nest with this one..... ]



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It depends completely on my weight.


Jan 17, 2019, 10:14 AM

I'm 6'3".....below 230, no snoring whatsoever. Above 230, wake the dead.

Obviously I try really hard to live in the no snore zone.

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My dad has extreme sleep apnea


Jan 17, 2019, 10:19 AM [ in reply to I always poke the hornet's nest with this one..... ]

and he's about 5'8 205. So not skinny but not big.

His is so bad the doctors have told him if he doesn't get a machine it will kill him eventually.

His response was "Living or dead I'm not sleeping with a mask"


I have a mild case but that's because fat

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I like your funny words magic man


Probably some truth in here.


Jan 17, 2019, 10:20 AM [ in reply to I always poke the hornet's nest with this one..... ]

But also likely that a significant percentage of the population, especially in our obese nation, could benefit from a CPAP device. Sleep apnea, or rather, treatment for sleep apnea, has only really been discussed in the medical mainstream for the past 5 years, if that. Let's say there are 200M adults in the US. It's not farfetched to believe that 20-40M of them snore and have mild to severe apnea. And like you said, the list of health issues is causes is a mile long, and pretty terrifying. If you don't have a partner that complains about your snoring, you're probably not going to get tested.

I don't feel that different when I use my CPAP, but I suppose I'm sleeping better. Haven't been great about using it regularly the past few months.

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My son took one and passed.


Jan 17, 2019, 10:24 AM [ in reply to I always poke the hornet's nest with this one..... ]

No sleep apnea, no CPAP.

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Yeah, but he's a triple black belt.


Jan 17, 2019, 10:25 AM

He probably just focused all his chi to his core body functions and willed his way though it.

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It's like braces....In modern history, has there ever been


Jan 17, 2019, 10:27 AM [ in reply to I always poke the hornet's nest with this one..... ]

a child that an orthodontist didn't say required braces? I speculate not.

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A dentist wouldn't refer to an orthodontist without need.***


Jan 17, 2019, 10:28 AM



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I reckon they have the same relationship that DUI lawyers


Jan 17, 2019, 10:31 AM

and small town cops have.

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Re: A dentist wouldn't refer to an orthodontist without need.***


Jan 17, 2019, 11:35 AM [ in reply to A dentist wouldn't refer to an orthodontist without need.*** ]

A dentist refers to many things without need. If they did not, advances in modern dental care would illiminate most of what they do. They have to get paid.

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*raises hand*


Jan 17, 2019, 10:31 AM [ in reply to It's like braces....In modern history, has there ever been ]

then again, depends on what you mean by 'modern history'

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Yeah, but that's more of a cultural thing.


Jan 17, 2019, 10:35 AM

You guys idolize Steve Buscemi.



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You just made the list, buddy.


Jan 17, 2019, 10:40 AM



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Would this be suicide?***


Jan 17, 2019, 10:45 AM



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I know, right ?***


Jan 17, 2019, 11:19 AM



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I'm assuming you came along somewhere in the mid to late


Jan 17, 2019, 10:57 AM [ in reply to *raises hand* ]

80's. From what I understand, it was a different time then. That was back before it was cool to have some sort of sickness or disability, and when parents were straight forward about spelling their children's names.

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you is correct***


Jan 17, 2019, 11:00 AM



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"Son, lemme tell you about the old days! We didn't have


Jan 17, 2019, 11:00 AM [ in reply to I'm assuming you came along somewhere in the mid to late ]

mental health days---we sat there and had panic attacks right there in our cubicle, and we liked it!. If we got caught Whooring around, it meant all our #@$% sitting in the front lawn when we got home, not a two week vacation in Arizona at a sex addiction treatment camp!

On the flipside, you didn't have to worry about a broad or a colored taking your promotion at work, so you gotta take the bad with the good I guess"

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Man, that sounds terrible...I think you trigged my anxiety


Jan 17, 2019, 11:06 AM

I have anxiety you know, it's crippling. I struggle every day with it, life is so hard. Really makes me depressed. So I've got depression too. Oh, and a bad back.

And Lupus.

Signed,
75% of white women in America

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Re: Man, that sounds terrible...I think you trigged my anxiety


Jan 17, 2019, 11:07 AM

Image result for it's never lupus gif

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I like your funny words magic man


Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get


Jan 17, 2019, 11:13 AM

yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you are an alcoholic. Goddamn it Otto, you have Lupus... one of those two doesn't sound right.

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RIP Mitch***


Jan 17, 2019, 11:17 AM



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Correct, I asked the sleep study lady if anyone has ever


Jan 17, 2019, 11:24 AM [ in reply to It's like braces....In modern history, has there ever been ]

passed a sleep test. Since the Sleep study place SELLS the CPAP machines, isnt it a conflict of interest that THEY decide who needs one?

She just laughed.

incidentally i failed. On a scale of 4-20 I was an 8.

it does help though. I sleep like a baby and my wife now sleeps like a baby.

I think my Lab needs a CPAP, she snores like a ......well like I used to.

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I’ve had a sleep study and do not have sleep apnea.


Jan 17, 2019, 11:11 AM [ in reply to I always poke the hornet's nest with this one..... ]

I’ve never really slept well. Sleep study did nothing for me except let me know I don’t have sleep apnea.

To add on to the medical rackets, it sure is hard to have kids these days. It seems that everyone has to see a fertility specialist except Greenr. We got sent to one as soon as my wife told her OB/GYN that we’d been trying for about six months. They wanted to do all of this expensive stuff for us to have kids. We said #### that. She went to the family doctor a few weeks later. Checked her thyroid. Said I needed to have mine checked. Got mine checked. Both put on Synthroid and an OTC mineral for Hoshimoto’s disease. Cost us about $100 before we got pregnant. I’d like to slash her old OB/GYN’s and that fertility specialist’s tires.

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All of the chicks I grew up with who haven't had kids yet


Jan 17, 2019, 11:46 AM

are starting to panic, and they're paying the big bucks to make it happen. I don't have any exact figures, but I know one couple who have spent upwards of $30k...Doing whatever it is they do to help you get pregnant.

I've got mixed feelings about it, on one hand, I would never spend that kind of money in an attempt to have a child. On the other, we do need more couples reproducing who can afford $30k fertility drugs, or whatever. We need to do what we can to offset the trashy ignorant people.

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told my wife we were gonna get a prom dress and MD20/20


Jan 17, 2019, 12:07 PM

seems to work.

took us 5 years on the first kid

5 seconds on the second

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Re:Lated...i wonder how many of them did a fertility


Jan 17, 2019, 12:09 PM [ in reply to All of the chicks I grew up with who haven't had kids yet ]

calendar or whatever it's called.

pre 1st kid, SheGUAR and I had tried 3-4 times/months with no luck (besides the copious amount of daysechs). Nothing to crazy or alarming...didn't get any add'l doctors involved. But she'd read up on some shitzz about taking & logging your basal temperature and some other who-knows-what type of thing until you establish a pattern, which in turn informs you when you're actually droppin' eggs

Was 3-for-3 on subsequent first attempts (middle one was a dud)


obviously, there are people that have actual physical reasons that things aren't working, but i'd bet a large portion of the women you described spent a shitton of money for what a $5 thermometer and a notepad would do

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There's an even more reliable method than that....


Jan 17, 2019, 12:11 PM

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=samoan%20pile%20driver

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####....just READING that got ME pregnant***


Jan 17, 2019, 12:16 PM



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They probably did, it wouldn't surprise me


Jan 17, 2019, 12:18 PM [ in reply to Re:Lated...i wonder how many of them did a fertility ]

My wife has some sort of app. She doesn't let me see it, and I'm starting to get hesitant to sex her.

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i hear what you’re saying...


Jan 17, 2019, 8:55 PM [ in reply to I always poke the hornet's nest with this one..... ]

But, they said I had the sleep apnea, but di’int need no cpap.

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I just hope it’s not the Butt AIDS.


Jan 17, 2019, 10:07 AM

Let us know the test results.

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Yea, use the CPAP when at home. Got tired


Jan 17, 2019, 10:12 AM

of my snoring a$$ getting kicked to the guest bedroom.

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Yep, Yep, Yep.


Jan 17, 2019, 10:13 AM

My main issue now is that I think I can run on 5 hours of sleep a night. I probably need 6.

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I have it, and have the CPAP.


Jan 17, 2019, 10:20 AM

Wife is a respiratory therapist and diagonosed me way before I ever went for a sleep study. Hell, she was yelling at me to go get a study done for a couple of years before I actually did it.

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CPAP up bruh. But seriously, if they identify what's causing it AND if


Jan 17, 2019, 11:11 AM

they treat it correctly it will change your life. And the CPAP is NOT always the best answer. Had a friend who wore a thingy that adjusted his jaw - worked great.

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One of these things?


Jan 17, 2019, 11:16 AM



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The CPAP comes in handy in our bedroom


Jan 17, 2019, 11:20 AM [ in reply to CPAP up bruh. But seriously, if they identify what's causing it AND if ]

role-playing.

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"*Pssshhh--Shhhh (breathing) Leia, I am your father"***


Jan 17, 2019, 11:21 AM



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This is really an underrated post***


Jan 17, 2019, 11:47 AM



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you pretend your wife is grouchingtiger?***


Jan 17, 2019, 11:21 AM [ in reply to The CPAP comes in handy in our bedroom ]



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No, Obed. She’s 6’1 so closer to Obed’s height.***


Jan 17, 2019, 11:24 AM



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you pretend your wife is 19B?***


Jan 17, 2019, 11:29 AM



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Who doesn't ?


Jan 17, 2019, 11:35 AM

.


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i don't, anymore


Jan 17, 2019, 12:02 PM

she got pi$$3d when I shaved her head while she was asleep

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Totally. We pretend like we're gassing Jews.


Jan 17, 2019, 11:43 AM [ in reply to The CPAP comes in handy in our bedroom ]

It's a gas!

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Anne Frankly, I did Nazi


Jan 17, 2019, 11:44 AM

...stuff.

~19B

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Re: Yes. CPAP is a life-changer for me***


Jan 17, 2019, 11:21 AM



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I got one of these and it works great. wifeofAyejoe said


Jan 17, 2019, 11:22 AM

I snore and would cough/choke/stop breathing. She is not a professional respiratory therapist nor did she stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

It do help me sleep dough.

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linx


Jan 17, 2019, 11:22 AM

https://smile.amazon.com/Adjustable-Mouthpiece-Mouth-Bruxism-Eliminator/dp/B079V2DV2Q/ref=sr_1_9_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1547741598&sr=8-9&keywords=snore+mouth+guard

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Does it stop the snoring?***


Jan 17, 2019, 11:38 AM [ in reply to I got one of these and it works great. wifeofAyejoe said ]



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Yes. Even the drankin' snores.***


Jan 17, 2019, 11:45 AM



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I've been using one for 3+ years.


Jan 17, 2019, 11:25 AM

The results of my sleep study was stopping breathing about 50 times per hour, so basically waking up slightly 1 time per minute roughly. I have noticed a significant difference in be lethargic in the morning and waking up feeling like I hadn't slept at all. I've used religiously, probably a total of 2 weeks or so I'm missed over 3 years.

With that said I agree with Obed that it's probably over diagnosed as there's a lot of money in CPAP supplies to be made in the industry. I'd counter Obed that most people who have enough issues to actually go through a sleep study probably have a pretty high % chance of actually having an issue. Now losing weight or better sleep habits could rememdy but hey, money to be made on CPAP, not you actually making a difference.

It's key to find a mask that you can deal with. You will choose one right off the bat but can change easily without much hassle since you replace the mask periodically. I just tried different one's off of Amazon until I fould one I liked.

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I use Dis one


Jan 17, 2019, 12:06 PM



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I used a similar nasal pillow one for a year or so then


Jan 17, 2019, 12:53 PM

realized my mouth was opening during the night. Switched to a full face, which I was wary of, but have slept better with it.

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so...you are a .....mouthbreather?


Jan 17, 2019, 1:20 PM

thats got WAY too many straps and I could not deal with the air blowing across my face.

They tried a facepiece first in my sleep study and it sucked

put on the pillows and slept the rest of the night.

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And here I thought you loved things blown across your face


Jan 17, 2019, 8:28 PM

Seriously though, I don’t have any issues with straps or airflow.

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Hold out for an iron lung.


Jan 17, 2019, 11:59 AM

If I get strapped somebody's gonna die.

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if you could select a way to die, wouldn't "in my sleep"


Jan 17, 2019, 12:12 PM

be the overwhelming #1 way to go?

If it happens due to a sleep illness, it happens. Congrats, you've found the ONE painless and blissful way out.

So why spend gobs of money and uncomfortableness to find an ultimately much worse way to die?

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I want to die in my sleep peacefully like my grandfather,


Jan 17, 2019, 12:14 PM

not screaming in terror like his passengers.



-Jack Handey

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Nope, I want to go out the same way I came in


Jan 17, 2019, 12:34 PM [ in reply to if you could select a way to die, wouldn't "in my sleep" ]

Naked

Screaming

Covered in #####

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with a doctor pulling on your head?***


Jan 17, 2019, 12:36 PM



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not against it. tell me more***


Jan 17, 2019, 12:40 PM



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Re:gret***


Jan 17, 2019, 12:41 PM



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