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I am sorry that I offended you, Renda.

Should we list your threads?

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Charnock, I am not trying to stir the pot nor comment on any other threads CC1 may or may not have posted.
My comments have to relate to a specific thread & the "slogging" of Minsters in general.

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Your admonition highlighted my hypocrisy, Renda. So much that I decided to delete my original post. I feel just horrible.

Right.

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I really do. I ask for your forgiveness.

Well, you did delete it.


But, for the record you didn't offend me. Just found it a bit ironic.

No need.

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How nice to have a thread dedicated to me. I just now saw it because I had been away from the computer for a bit.

In the seven years or so I have been on AFF I bet you can find all kinds of interesting threads and posts I have made just as you can with other frequent posters.

I have no regrets, guilt, or shame over anything I have posted. I have never posted a lie that I am aware of. My conscience is clear and I sleep like a baby at night (other than having a cotton pickin' CPAP mask on that is like sleeping with a vacuum cleaner hose on your face and of course the three or four trips to the bathroom during the night).

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You know, in all the years I have worked with CPAP, fitted patients with CPAP, I have never been able to strap a CPAP mask on my face and breathe through it. I liken it as sticking my head out the car window going 70mph on the road.

I know that there are CPAP ramps now but...I just hope I never have to have one, although my doctor has suggested sleep studies...AND CPAP. :heeheehee

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I put off the study for six months after I freaked my wife out by stopping breathing when we were traveling and were sleeping close in a double bed instead of our king bed at home.

Severe sleep apnea is defined as stopping breathing something like 7 times an hour. The study showed I stop breathing 60 times an hour! I need the CPAP so bad they loaned me one while mine was on order.

I do have the new fancy one that ramps up. The first few months I would stop breathing sometimes and it would have to ramp up to hurricane velocity and I would wake up with my cheeks puffed out like a chipmunk and the sound of a hurricane!

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:lol

They would be so loud that the people staying in the room with the patient would complain about the noise.

And it's worse if there is a leak around the mouth or nose.

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CPAP is an acronym for Continuous Positive Airway Pressure.

It is a device that blows air into your lungs using a tight fitting mask that goes over your nose, or nose and mouth to keep the alveoli open. Now they got masks that will fit over your whole face. The alveoli are tiny air sacs in the lung where respiration (hemoglobin exchange of carbon dioxide for oxygen) takes place. It also keeps the soft tissue open in the back of your pharynx by a lot of air so that it is able to get to the alveoli.

Like I said, to me it feels like sticking your head out of a fast moving vehicle and trying to breathe. But...if put on the patient's face right, it achieves the purpose.

I used to laugh with some of the patients in the way they would do to put it on their face. Some would require the fancy ramp. Yet, others would hold it for a short time, then quickly attach it to their face.
We even had straps that would hold the chin closed because some people's mouth would fall open while they sleep and all the air would go in their nose and out their mouth. :heeheehee

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How much do those cost? I wake up gasping for oxygen throughout the night.

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You might have reflux.

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Yeah, get a "purple pill" before going to bed................

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NOT the blue one.......:happydance

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Well...

MAYBE............


:D

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At least don't admit it! :happydance

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Have a sleep study done, houston! You may have sleep apnea, which is terrible for your heart, among other things. If you have sleep apnea, your insurance may cover a CPAP machine.

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What Miss Bratperson said! Seriously if you think you have a problem you do need to get the study done. If you have insurance it should cover all of it but about $1,000

As she said if you don't treat it you can end up dying from sleep apnea damaging your heart. There is a famous athlete whose name I can't remember but you would recognize who had sleep apnea and was supposed to use his CPAP machine but because he was such a ladies man bedding a lot of women he didn't use it much if any. He died of a heart attack they attribute to him not using it.

The fancy machine I have retails for around $900 or so but I found them on the internet for around $500-$600 I think. The ramp model has to be programmed from a Dr.'s instructions though as to the range and the regular ones also have to have their constant pressure set by a Dr. based on your sleep study.

I saw one place advertising a new type sleep study now that does not require you to spend the night at a sleep center but they send you home with all of the machinary, wires, hookups, etc and you sleep in your own bed.

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CC1's interesting CPAP thread! LOL!

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There ya go! Now Ron and tv1 will probably come on and claim I am lying a bout sleep apnea and spreading gossip about the possible consequences, etc.:thumbsup

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I would just pretend I was fighter pilot wearing a flight mask and humming Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins.

Unfortunately I can sympathies with the having to use the bathroom 3 or 4 times. THAT wakes me up more than anything.

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yeah...those bathroom trips is my problem too....lol....

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They should had asked for a second opinion... :grumpy:surrender

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Well houston could use the old fashion, cheap method before CPAP. :rolleyes2

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You mean the method so often used on Baywatch after being dragged from the surf by a beautiful life guard who ran to your aid in slow motion?

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Ha ha! No.

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My brother uses a CPAP; they do indeed make noise......(he travels with it ).

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My visual of this post.... zipping through space with your CPAP... like a balloon losing air!

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Quit drinking all that coffee!!

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I do NOT drink coffee. I drink, in the following order, water, coke, gator-aide, and vodka gimlets.

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Vodka!!! Bleh!

I'm old fashioned. Sloe Gin Fizz!

Gee...I hadn't had one of those in over 3 decades....:heeheehee

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CC1, here's your golden opportunity, to be known for more than having "interesting friends". Invent a CPAP that takes care of the bathroom problem at the same time it takes care of the breathing! (I don't know how!!!!.... sure you could figure it out!) :happydance

Been Thinkin

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Put a bed in there?

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CC1, I thought of a name for it, but I don't want to get an infraction, or maybe get banned so I'll just keep it to myself...:heeheehee

Been Thinkin (Probably should stop!)

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CC1 I am a CPAPer myself. I have been using my machine for 6 months and I am feeling like my old self again. I have AFIB and they attribute it to the Sleep Apnea.

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I gagged just reading your idea.