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Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source

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Post by ratg13 »

diob wrote: post #131
agrue wrote: post #27

Sleep apnea is strange. Good news! We have a diagnosis, sleep apnea. You're bad at sleeping now, the thing everybody has to do all night long every day since birth. The solution is to wear a modern iron lung whenever you want or need to sleep forever. Many times it's because people are overweight but you aren't. Is that really all there is for treatment? No throat exercises or therapeutic sleeping positions? No diets…

I have sleep apnea, not overweight. I wish there was more research poured into a solution that isn't pseudoscience junk or predatory. Grateful to the inventors of the cpap though, changed my life.

If it’s obstructive, you can learn to play the digeredoo

After about 3-4 months you should notice your condition improve

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Post by rewgs »

nanidin wrote: post #253
mancerayder wrote: post #160

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I have bruxism myself... What's the link with sleep apnea exactly? The jaw's position pushing the tongue back?

I’m not sure which way the arrow of causation points - one of the body’s reactions to stopping breathing while unconscious is to grind the jaw.

That's correct. You stop breathing and respond by clenching your jaw, resulting in TMJ.

Re: Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source

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Post by StrictDabbler »

LoganDark wrote: post #111
StrictDabbler wrote: post #87

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Yes, absolutely. It is worth practicing medicine when the treatment is inherently harmless and going through the medical system has been bottlenecked. Nobody is killed (or really harmed) by trying a CPAP and the waiting list for sleep clinics can be months or years long, not to mention the expense. It's one of the rare medical interventions that is relatively safe for an individual. Probably should be otc.

> Probably should be otc. Isn't it already, if you can just buy a CPAP machine off the shelf?

Late reply, but no, legally you cannot buy or sell a CPAP machine without a prescription. It so obviously should be OTC that there's a thriving gray-market.

Re: Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source

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Post by redundantly »

agrue wrote: post #232
redundantly wrote: post #175

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> The solution is to wear a modern iron lung whenever you want or need to sleep forever Calling it an iron lung is extremely disingenuous. The Iron Lung uses negative pressure and had to be used 24x7 to keep the patient alive because their lungs weren't able work on their own. They had no mobility and were confined to a bed for the rest of their lives. CPAP / APAP machines use positive pressure and only assist with b…

> The solution is to wear a modern iron lung whenever you want or need to sleep forever Iron lung use was not 24/7 for all patients. Saying so might be considered by some to be extremely disingenuous or even ridiculous. https://www.npr.org/2021/10/25/1047691984/decades-after-poli...

I genuinely thought it was a life sentence, something I was taught in school. Thank you for pointing this out, I honestly didn't know.
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