Cpap Quotes

This is because neither adenoid/tonsil removal nor CPAP nor other procedures provide a satisfying long-term solution, because none deals with the core issue: a mouth that is too small for the face.

I woke up in the middle of the night suffocating and gasping for breath. After a minute or so of difficulty breathing, I realized that there had been a electricity failure and that my continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) medical life support machine had stopped working.

For some sleep apnea patients that use CPAP machines, they develop the more severe Complex Sleep Apnea during long term treatment.

Prescription drugs and sleep apnea are a potentially dangerous combination.

I found it concerning the sleep clinic had prescribed a setting that made me sick and this matched my findings with the CPAP machine that these CPAP and BiPAP prescriptions are highly inaccurate! Approximately 50% of people that are prescribed these treatments abandon them and a poor prescription setting is likely a factor in this. It takes weeks of experimentation to find the correct setting of these machines and sleep clinics trying to do it in one night is just providing many sickened patients with a really bad healthcare experience.

My CPAP machine made me sicker, not better!

Testing with CPAP and APAP sleep apnea machines in June 2020 revealed I am intolerant to anything but the lowest pressure setting of 4 cmH2O.

The CPAP sleep apnea machine would trigger insomnia during nighttime treatment.

I happened to bump into a friend one day and they were telling me they had used CPAP and hated the life support machine. They eventually switched over to a dental appliance made to treat the condition. The change was so successful that they eventually gave the CPAP machine away to a person in need. This got me thinking if I could pull off the same trick!

Sensitive teeth are a classic sign you are grinding your teeth during sleep.

Something I had been curious about was the use of prescription drugs while on CPAP. Since I had a wide range of prescriptions, I decided I would take them all before I went to bed to see what happened. The nighttime low oxygen events went much higher! I was seeing over five minutes of low oxygen with much lower oxygen excursions. This matched what I saw when I was initially placed onto CPAP in February 2016. As 2016 went on, I started to get increasingly fatigued as I was placed onto more prescription drugs. I eventually started falling asleep in my car while driving!

A BiPAP machine is far superior to a CPAP machine.

Sleeping at high altitudes is known to cause Central Sleep Apnea.

I discovered my severe sleep apnea by using a recording pulse oximeter. No one in my family has a history of using CPAP or BiPAP machines, even though I had to use them for several years. After many years of having sleep apnea, I successfully cleared it up.

While the doctor promised me I would feel better once on CPAP, the opposite happened. I was more fatigued than ever and I was now falling asleep while driving! I was sent on more sleep studies and given more diagnosis of sleep disorders.

Most doctors that I have spoken to about using oxygen during sleep to treat low oxygen levels have warned me not to. They say oxygen makes the lungs lazy.

The sleep doctor was evaluating me for a BiPAP machine, as the CPAP machine was triggering altitude sickness, chronic fatigue, sleepiness and gastrointestinal problems.

The worst insomnia I have experienced in life occurred during using a CPAP machine.

A CPAP machine produced the worst gastrointestinal problems and the most putrid farts I have experienced in life!

After years of unsuccessful CPAP treatment and a wide range of unpleasant side effects, I started BiPAP treatment.

I call daytime fatigue that occurs after waking up and turning off a CPAP machine: CPAP Conclusion Induced Fatigue.

Testing with a CPAP machine revealed it would produce insomnia whenever the pressure was 6 cmH2O or above.

High CPAP pressures would cause Aerophagia, upsetting my gastrointestinal system.

…respiration, - a troublesome practice, but one which custom has rendered necessary to our easy existence.” “Oliver Twist”, Charles Dickens 1837

I started to see a serious decline in health in high altitude professional astronomy. Most noticeable was the onset of constant fatigue, memory issues and confusion. The condition progressed during my time in the commercial and utility solar industry where I started falling asleep at work and developed hot skin. The doctors tested me and said I had shift work disorder in 2008 and vitamin D and Vitamin B12 deficiencies in 2011. In 2015 I had a COVID-19 like sickness that made everyone in the family really sick. I never recovered and this started regular visits to the doctors. They diagnosed severe sleep apnea and mental illness and prescribed a CPAP machine. Under the care of the doctors I became much sicker on their prescription drugs and treatments. I eventually got smart and figured out I was not going to recover under their care and they may actually kill me! In 2021, moving to Hawaii island revealed that I had ‘Altitude Hypersensitivity’ and a high altitude commuting disease called ‘Magee’s Disease’. By the end of 2023 I had developed the treatments for these conditions and made a reasonable recovery. There is no cure for either condition. They are life-long illnesses. I now have to live well below 1,000 feet near sea level and take the treatments for the rest of my life. I documented the conditions in the books ‘Toxic Altitude’ and ‘Magee’s Disease’. The treatments for the hypoxic high altitude damage appeared transferable into COVID-19 and Long COVID and these are documented in the books “COVID Supplements” and ‘Long COVID Supplements’.

To make matters worse, postmenopausal women are two to three times more likely than premenopausal women to develop new sleep problems, such as sleep apnea. While this disorder is typically considered a men’s issue, once menopause kicks off, women are also at increased risk, possibly because of changes in muscle tone. Sleep apnea is a chronic breathing disorder during which one repeatedly stops breathing mid-sleep. Typically, this is due to a partial or complete obstruction (or collapse) of the upper airway, often affecting the base of the tongue and the soft palate, or due to a depressed signal from the brain to initiate a breath. These events can last ten seconds or longer, sometimes occurring hundreds of times per night, causing severe sleep disruptions. Sleep apnea is more common than you probably think. The National Sleep Foundation reported that it likely affects as much as 20 percent of the population, although as many as 85 percent of individuals with sleep apnea don’t know they have it. That seems to be particularly the case for women, for two reasons. First, many women attribute the symptoms and effects of sleep disorders (like daytime fatigue) to stress, overwork, or menopause, rather than to sleep apnea. Second, the symptoms of sleep apnea are often more subtle in women than in men (read, women snore less). As a result, women tend to not seek evaluation for sleep apnea, which in turn delays diagnosis and treatment. Given the importance of sleep for your health, both physical and mental, I strongly recommend that you get a proper sleep evaluation if you are concerned that your sleep symptoms may be due to menopause, sleep apnea, or a combination of the two. Treatments for sleep apnea are available, which often include lifestyle changes and the use of a breathing assistance device at night, such as a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine. Sleep disturbances due to menopause are also just as important to address. As with the other symptoms so far, remedies are available, which we’ll review in part 4.

Experimentation with sleeping supplements is required to find out which ones produce the best response.

People with sleep disorders should investigate sleeping on different types of bedding.

Magnesium cured my bruxism.

If you are routinely moving during sleep, you are experiencing sleep fragmentation and will likely have daytime fatigue and sleepiness. This is called Sleep Movement Disorder.

Untreated sleep apnea can make you go insane.

There’s another option that also works well for many people: a mandibular advancement device (or MAD). Basically, this is a mouth guard that pushes your lower jaw forward, shifting the placement of your tongue while you sleep. MADs are small, easy to carry when you travel, and can be customized to provide a perfect fit for your teeth. They stop you snoring and also serve as a night guard if you’ve been told that you grind your teeth. Peter, who used to use a CPAP machine but found it difficult to lug along on his travels, now swears by his mandibular advancement device.

One of the worst health conditions I have experienced was fecal urgency!

I had two prescriptions for CPAP: 7 cmH2O and 13 cmH2O. Both made me feel lousy and the higher pressure caused Aerophagia. I eventually had to abandon the treatment as it was making me so sick.

Testing with the CPAP machine revealed that it was triggering altitude sickness symptoms after waking, specifically ‘Descent Fatigue’ during the daytime.

CPAP never really worked for me and it was a few years later that the medical profession discovered I had positional sleep apnea that needed treatment with a positional device, not a CPAP machine.

The sickest that I have ever been in life was when the doctors put me on a wide range of prescription medications and a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine.

At the age of 47, the medical profession had me on four RX-Only prescription drugs for lung and heart problems, an RX-Only prescription continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) life support machine during sleep, two brain RX-Only prescriptions, a brain supplement, and high cholesterol medication. I am still in the process of being fully diagnosed by the medical profession and this drugs list may increase.

Klute Sorensen’s recent sleeplessness wasn’t solely attributable to the fact that his CPAP roamed his face like a possessive octopus. -from The Jesus Cow

Do not trust the medical profession.