Do you have a CPAP?

onacruse

Sounds like an epidermal lesion, doesn't it? LOL

Anyway, I've had a CPAP for years. Was diagnosed with sleep apnea about 15 years ago (the sleep test showed that I "woke up" 297 times in one night), and after they reamed out my nasal passages (congenital deviated septum), they said I'd have to use this breathing machine, because my tonsils and adenoids were still in the way. I said, then just take them out! What's the problem? Well, not a good idea, as it turns out, for adults.

And what possible JW relevance is there with this? Simply, that my folks were told, way back when I was a youngster, when such a surgery would have been a day-in-and-out (add some ice cream) procedure, that I should have my tonsils and adenoids removed...but (and my Mom has told me this point-blank), they deliberately and consciously chose not to have this done for me because Armageddon is right around the corner!!! This is the honest truth.

Anyway, last night, my hose pulls out (actually, I think Kate pulled it out, as a revenge for my "closet" thread LOLOL)...and I woke up, as usual, around 4:30 a.m., and felt to myself "Geez, I feel like crap!"

So, any of you here had your hose pulled out lately?

HAL9000

Don't have too many problems with the hose pulling out, but I nearly drowned from condensation at first as I live in a "cooler climate". Nearly threw the @#$% thing through the window.

Solved that with an electrically heated tube though (Resmed don't sell them) & has been perfect since. I have had the nose rebore done (deviated septum after broken nose years ago)

At least I don't go to sleep at 2 pm now!! There was an infamous case here of a judge with sleep apnea who spent the afternoons asleep in court - now retired (funny about that!)

Regards,

h9k

Frannie Banannie

So, any of you here had your hose pulled out lately?

No, Craig, can't say that I have.....but I have had my leg pulled a time or two.....oooops! There goes that mouse again

Sorry about your sleep apnea. I think I have it too, just not so badly.

prophecor

My nostrills are sure sore from the pressure of the air, as well as my constantly sniffing from a cold I'm catching. The air being dry is also making things difficult. I wish one day to be able to go to sleep like normal people,

Big Tex

I did a sleep analysis once and they put that machine on me. Freaked me out. Classic case of the cure being worse than the disease.

I'm impressed you can do it!

Chris

onacruse

Well, I didn't necessarily intend for this topic to go this way, but what the heck!

HAL9000:

At least I don't go to sleep at 2 pm now!!

Frannie:

I think I have it too, just not so badly.

prophecor:

I wish one day to be able to go to sleep like normal people

Perhaps you all remember that Star Trek episode, where everyone on the Enterprise was going crazy because of a cross-dimensional rift that was depriving them of REM sleep?

Now, this may seem very weird, but I'll offer it up as a possibility: That people with sleep apnea (ameliorated by a CPAP, sleeping "aids," or otherwise) may be more prone to psychotic personalities...the "thing" that drives us, and yet at the same time the "thing" that makes us crazy.

MsMcDucket

I have airway restriction because of a paralyzed vocal cord. They gave me a CPAP to use. Well, I used it faithfully until it made a big dot in the middle of my forehead. A big fat brown dot. Makeup wouldn't even cover that dot. So, I stopped using the CPAP and the dot went away.

I'd always throw the thing off in the middle of the night anyway!

HAL9000

Re psychotic personalities, before I got the CPAP my wife insisted that my sleep apnea (and my 140dB snoring) drove her crazy.

Seriously though I don't know whether one is more prone to a psychotic personality as a consequence of sleep apnea - the effects of REM sleep deprivation may accentuate certain personality traits or characteristics, but these seem to be reversible with the use of the machine.

h9k

Frannie Banannie

Now, this may seem very weird, but I'll offer it up as a possibility: That people with sleep apnea (ameliorated by a CPAP, sleeping "aids," or otherwise) may be more prone to psychotic personalities...the "thing" that drives us, and yet at the same time the "thing" that makes us crazy.

Does that mean that people with sleep apnea who use hoses are in reality psycho-hose-beasts, Craig? (snicker/snort) No wonder Kate pulled your hose out!!!

Hortensia

have chronic sinus infections, lots of scar tissue up there, allergies, sleep apnea - and my husband says I snore like a freight train. I sympathize with your problem! Also restless leg syndrome, but after years of just not sleeping, I finally told my doctor and am taking a med for RLS and actually slept 6 hours last night without waking up, a first in my adult life. What a difference it makes to get that REM sleep.

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