ByeBye Sleep Apnea... Holy Shit!!



I've been meaning to take a sleep study for a while now because I fucking sleep like shit. What were your symptoms that caused you to actually go take the test?
 
EricVonDoobie said:
Humans evolved to run (at first, now we have evolved to walk), so it's kind of an absurd idea to think that a small airway is some common natural evolutionary quirk causing sleep apnea. That's a very conventional/backward clinical approach to the problem. There's probably a lot more going on that's causing it, literally could be thousands of different things. coolbrostory.tiff
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Dude, you have no fucking idea what you are talking about.
 
Dwight Schrute said:
Not true.

I have "moderate-to-severe" sleep apnea caused by a few factors. Weight is definitely one, but my doctor said he has marathon runners who are in perfect physical shape who suffer from severe sleep apnea due to having a small airway.

I wasn't able to workout because I was so tired, which got me more fat. Getting a CPAP gave me the energy to workout, which made me lose weight.

I'm still on the CPAP, but no where near as dependent on it as I once was.

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I suspect marathon runners on CPAP is about as common as fatasses having a genetic condition which makes them whales. Possible but no where near common.

it seriously takes 5 hours a week to be fit.
 
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dchuk said:
I've been meaning to take a sleep study for a while now because I fucking sleep like shit. What were your symptoms that caused you to actually go take the test?
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I fell asleep driving.

It's been going on for a while (5+ years) I think. I thought it was adhd, and got addicted to adderal. I quit smoking, taking drugs, drinking, and I was still fucked up.

I went to the doctor after I fell asleep at the wheel, and he got pissed that I waited so long. I got a sleep study last Friday, and the sleep people were like "get the fuck back in here!"

Last night, I got the CPAP treatment, and I swear I haven't been as enthusiastic about my life in years. Unbelievable.
 
I have some family members who use the machine. They say it is even better if you put some very cold distilled water in it.
 
Congrats, nothing like a good sleep.

Didn't know much about sleep apnea, started reading because of your thread and only just realized Sleep Paralysis isn't normal. Happens to me a lot.

Thanks for the inadvertent PSA!
 
^ Have had sleep paralysis since I was a child. I don't get it as much as I used to, and mainly now it comes in bouts once every couple of months. Or it hits me when I'm really really fucking tired (at which point it becomes a nuisance since I'm so tired but I can't fall asleep without my body first becoming paralyzed and then the ensuing mind fuck). After 5 or 6 slips into paralysis, I know it's time to get up for half an hour and do something else.

Used to scare me, now its just fucking annoying, or cool depending if I'm in the mood for it (when paralyzed try thinking about music or shapes and you will hear and see crazy hallucinations).

Had a sleep apnea test, twice, no sleep apnea for me. Just paralysis.

PS: Funny to hear people talk about alien abductions, and the old hag, and all that BS. Classic Sleep Paralysis hallucinations.
 
EricVonDoobie said:
I thought only fat people get sleep apnea.

edit: You should seriously read something like The Ultramind Solution if you're relying on a machine to do one of the most natural human processes known, sleep, since there's probably something else wrong with your body causing your problems.
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Agreed. It can be so many things. Could be something like stress leading to jaw clenching leading to narrowed airway (clenching pulls the jaw back and can narrow an already small airway). Could be weak throat muscles form dysfunctional oral habits (tongue thrust). Could be just an anatomically weak or small airway. Could be that your diaphgragm is weakend or dysnfunctional and thus you are sucking air in from the chest, or even the throat or the mouth, when these should be passive and air should be pulled from the diaphragm. Could have a neurological disorder that causes your breathing impulse to become abnormally depressed when you go into deeper stages of sleep. Could be an oversized tongue (yes people have these), or even a weak tongue that falls back into the throat.

As simple as breathing is, the stomatognathic system (the throat, jaw, tongue, diaphragm, etc.) is such a complicated system.

I say fuck it, get the machine, get on with your life.
 
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