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Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial

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Re: Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial

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giardini wrote: post #219
djur wrote: post #189

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Your claim is that CPAP gave this person a _communicable_ chest infection, which was then cured by herbal medicine? How could that possibly happen unless your local distilled water supply was contaminated with tuberculosis bacteria?

What part of "I make no claims for Chinese herbal cures" did you not understand? It just underscores how batshit crazy people are and the low quality of some so-called "medical cures". Sometimes that includes "snake-oil salesmen", a category into which I now put CPAP vendors.

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Re: Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial

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clown_strike wrote: post #215
djur wrote: post #189

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Your claim is that CPAP gave this person a _communicable_ chest infection, which was then cured by herbal medicine? How could that possibly happen unless your local distilled water supply was contaminated with tuberculosis bacteria?

Improper cleaning maybe. People get Legionnaire's from shitty motel rooms with AC units that don't drain correctly, so it isn't that farfetched for a closed loop respirator full of moisture to harbor nasty pathogens all the same.

Yes, you can get infections from poorly maintained CPAPs (or respirators -- are those a scam, too?) but that's not going to spread to your whole family.

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Post by therealdrag0 »

johntash wrote: post #164
therealdrag0 wrote: post #160

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You can get a custom fit one by mail for like $200.

Do you have a recommendation on where? I think my dentist said the cost was > $3,000 so I never went through with it.

Ive used ProTeethGuard.com and encoreguards.com . In both cases I got a “Soft” one. The encore guard is thinner than I expected, despite the specs saying it should be thicker than my proteethguard. They might have sent me the wrong thickness (I didn’t follow up). But comparing what I got, I prefer my proteethguard.

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Post by latentsea »

giardini wrote: post #218
latentsea wrote: post #192

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> While apnea is real, CPAP looks like a scam to me, for the sleep clinics and especially for the CPAP makers and suppliers. 100% not a scam. Was life changing for me, and the two other coworkers I know who are on it.

*"100% not a scam. Was life changing for me, and the two other coworkers I know who are on it."& Yeah, but so is Jesus to some people.

Well... instantly measurably dropped my blood pressure and stopped me nodding off to sleep while on the way to and from work. But I guess Jesus performs all sorts of objectively measurable miracles too.

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Post by AStonesThrow »

giardini wrote: post #218
latentsea wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> While apnea is real, CPAP looks like a scam to me, for the sleep clinics and especially for the CPAP makers and suppliers. 100% not a scam. Was life changing for me, and the two other coworkers I know who are on it.

*"100% not a scam. Was life changing for me, and the two other coworkers I know who are on it."& Yeah, but so is Jesus to some people.

I would say that CPAP is more of a Holy Spirit miracle, but why place limits on that?

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Post by rythmshifter »

grapesodaaaaa wrote: post #141
morjom wrote: post #135

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Central Sleep Apnea exists aswell.

This sent me down a rabbit hole, but high altitude periodic breathing seems related for some people living at high altitude. Sleep apnea can be a disqualifying condition for pilots, so I like to be 1000% certain and have plans A, B, and C ready to go before seeking treatment.

The FAA decided not to medically clear me over my severe apnea last year. Soul crushing moment.
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