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by carbonman
Mon May 21, 2018 7:34 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: O/T what are your hobbies or things you do for fun?
Replies: 66
Views: 6965

Re: O/T what are your hobbies or things you do for fun?

jnk... wrote:
Sun May 20, 2018 3:56 pm
Writing, performing, and recording folk-influenced songs, for my own enjoyment and for irritating others near me.

https://soundcloud.com/myfriendjeff/
Very nice!

What guitar?
by carbonman
Wed May 16, 2018 7:56 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Can CPAP cause depression/anxiety?
Replies: 132
Views: 38108

Re: Can CPAP cause depression/anxiety?

Allowing a doc to get a person off a medication in order to start with a clean slate once PAP is working can be a smart move if it is made safely, with full knowledge, and with good communication between a person and all members of his medical team. If CPAP is fixing someone's sleep, he may now be ...
by carbonman
Sun Mar 04, 2018 5:09 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Exercise and AHI...
Replies: 9
Views: 1173

Re: Exercise and AHI...

Has anyone noticed a correlation between moderate to vigorous exercise like weight lifting or running and reduced AHI? I have lifted weights for many years but not really on a consistent enough basis and I want to start doing it every other day and more vigorously. I was wondering if anyone had per...
by carbonman
Mon Feb 19, 2018 6:55 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Ditch the bedside clock
Replies: 13
Views: 4647

Re: Ditch the bedside clock

For example, when you develop the seemingly useful but actually useless learned behavior of looking at a clock in the middle of the night and counting the hours of lost sleep or the hours of desperately hoped-for sleep, not only are you not sleeping, you instead are engaged in the wakeful, learned ...
by carbonman
Sat Feb 03, 2018 3:19 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: OT - dreams about my mask
Replies: 7
Views: 434

Re: OT - dreams about my mask

mrcrayola wrote:Anyone else ever have "CPAP" dreams? MC
Yes. ...and it's been going on for years now.
.....since that post.....somewhere north of 27K hours.

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by carbonman
Sat Feb 03, 2018 8:37 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: CBD Oil
Replies: 29
Views: 12555

Re: CBD Oil

chunkyfrog wrote:Cannabis plants thrive in Nebraska.
In Colo, that was called "ditch weed".
Wasn't worth the time or risk......


....so I have heard.
by carbonman
Sat Jan 06, 2018 6:04 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Ok, Enough's Enough.. Surgery Advice please :(
Replies: 52
Views: 26350

Re: Ok, Enough's Enough.. Surgery Advice please :(

is a trachaeostomy where they basically cut a hole in the throat to allow me to sleep at night... problem solved.. no apap, no mask, no physical damage apart from a valve in the throat regards Really????? https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=tracheostomy&qpvt=trachaeostomy&FORM=IGRE I'm sure that l...
by carbonman
Tue Jan 02, 2018 10:32 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Why is 'effort' not considered an alternate?
Replies: 54
Views: 4016

Re: Why is 'effort' not considered an alternate?

greatunclebill wrote:Number one "Bama fan.
Roll Tide!!
by carbonman
Tue Jan 02, 2018 9:36 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Why is 'effort' not considered an alternate?
Replies: 54
Views: 4016

Re: Why is 'effort' not considered an alternate?

Is that because we don't want to put in the effort? Or what? Improvement through effort.....ain't it a long, strange trip we are on. Just a few months away from 10yrs on the hose. Maybe the best years of my life. Just a few months away from 30yrs on the bike....and my legs are tired. In Oct, while ...
by carbonman
Sat Dec 30, 2017 8:32 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: The costs of sleep deprivation
Replies: 18
Views: 9827

Re: The costs of sloppy wording

jnk... wrote: then look around at everyone else in the room with my trademark irritating smirk
...too bad we don't have an emoji of this.
by carbonman
Mon Dec 25, 2017 9:23 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: New CPAP user, and embarassed
Replies: 23
Views: 10335

Re: New CPAP user, and embarassed

I know this will help me out in the long run but it is also just about getting over the mental hurdle. Cpap is much more than the mechanics of blowing air up your nose. It is an opportunity to make a trip into yourself. It may be the trip of your life time. A chance to discover who you really are a...
by carbonman
Fri Dec 22, 2017 1:15 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: CPAP Pillows and Sleep Meds
Replies: 9
Views: 4009

Re: CPAP Pillows and Sleep Meds

Can anyone recommend a good CPAP pillow for sleeping on your side with a Full Face Mask? I use a FFM and make my own pillows out of any kind of memory foam you can find. Very effective and comfortable. The cut out in the middle tucks into your shoulder and keeps the pillow from moving, The outside ...
by carbonman
Thu Nov 30, 2017 8:43 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: OT? I put a Theravent Max patch inside nasal pillows for fun
Replies: 12
Views: 7386

Re: OT? I put a Theravent Max patch inside nasal pillows for fun

jnk... wrote:Please note that Theravent is not designed to treat anything medical--it is only supposed to be used to stop snoring.
...so....is an anti snore device inside a cpap mask,
an oxymoron? ...or is it redundant?
...or a conundrum? ...or is this a riddle?
by carbonman
Tue Nov 28, 2017 1:18 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: OT: Some Truths
Replies: 5
Views: 3087

Re: OT: Some Truths

“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”


― Winston S. Churchill

Maybe that is what has been needed here
the past months.
-I said that.