For anyone who's ever felt like it was difficult to breathe through their nose - the reason for my own CPAP failure and in general a great detractor from quality of life - I wanted to spread the word about the EASE treatment by Dr.Li in Palo Alto, CA. It's similar to SARPE but SARPE has a tendency t...

It's known that the brain turns off its O2 sensing ability (and maybe mechano-stretch sensing ability w.r.t.chest and diaphragm rise and fall, and nose passages) when entering sleep. Only the CO2 alarm remains to wake us up out of sleep, if indeed something has happened to our environment while we a...

I bought a CMS 50F from Kevin Cooper of Cooper Medical a while back. The purchase went smoothly and the unit worked fine. Later I asked for a convenience request that took a significant amount of his time, a favor beyond what a big box store would do. He agreed with politeness. He did not charge me ...

The opposite of IRRITABILITY is:

(a) serotonin
(b) dopamine
(c) de-inflammation
(d) probiotics
(e) none of the above

Trying to figure this one out. Any ideas?

Anti aging therapy carries a fringe connotation, kind of like being a vegan or a "hippie." However it really is just hoping to maintain quality of life as long as possible. It seems that the goal of health boils down to a few buckets. It's both a negative and positive definition. Avoid a few basic p...

especially for those with complex and hard to treat cases Hard to treat = UARS = thin young and do not desaturate that much = hypersensitive nervous system = not likely to get a good result from MMA. A study: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1097/00005537-200010000-00021/pdf Looking at Table I...

This can be a warning sign of a deeper problem.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23026504

Ask about speech therapy or jaw expansion.

It wasn't me, but the blogger did say their butt muscles.

I breathe fine through the nasal pillows at 7cm or higher.

How exactly did they rule out GERD?

One MMA undergoer said they woke up from surgery with an extremely sore butt. Questioning the doctor he found that the brain experiences pain while one is anesthetized. So his butt muscles were clenching up for hours and that's why they're so sore. I'm reminded of a story called The Jaunt where in t...

The people who say they improved about 50% consider their operation
a success. The patients and surgeons agree on the 90% success figure.

Patrissimo & syzgy, I bet you've been in touch with many people who have had MMAs. They probably aren't a random sample, but anyway... What percentage of them were completely cured of their daytime symptoms? thedreamer in his My Sleep Apnea Journey blog sums it up well: "One thing became clear in t...

By MMA failure I mean the 13% or so of patients who don't feel significantly better after the operation. Like patrissimo, syzygy, and phoebe. By tissue damage I mean things like destruction of nerves in the throat, formation of connective tissue in the throat, conversion of muscle fibers from type I...

And, sadly, still am... As I see it, there are two causes of MMA failures, reflux and tissue damage. Reflux is known to cause arousals and tissue damage is postulated to allow the airway to keep shutting even in the face of MMA. But MMA failures can rule out reflux by sleeping inclined and taking a...