How to get rid of CPAP?
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Re: How to get rid of CPAP?
There is only one way to definitively get rid of CPAP:
It involves making breathing optional.
It involves making breathing optional.
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Re: How to get rid of CPAP?
Chunky frog, YOU ROCK!!!chunkyfrog wrote:There is only one way to definitively get rid of CPAP:
It involves making breathing optional.
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Re: How to get rid of CPAP?
Let's not be overly pessimistic. I can believe some people cure apnea by weight loss.
Unfortunately:
Not many people succeed at weight loss.
It takes a long time.
Many who lose weight don't lose the apnea.
Lose the weight, it's a good idea. Just don't wait to start CPAP, hoping you'll get better on that mythical day you lose weight. You'll be ruining your health in the meantime.
Unfortunately:
Not many people succeed at weight loss.
It takes a long time.
Many who lose weight don't lose the apnea.
Lose the weight, it's a good idea. Just don't wait to start CPAP, hoping you'll get better on that mythical day you lose weight. You'll be ruining your health in the meantime.
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Re: How to get rid of CPAP?
Survey says: "Realistic!"
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Re: How to get rid of CPAP?
V, you just asked my question! I wonder what "minimal" is?VVV wrote:Wallaceconway wrote: And now the Apnea has been minimal enough to sleep through the night.
Do you know what your AHI is now and if so, how do you know?
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Re: How to get rid of CPAP?
when I'm dead, my AHI will be minimal or zero.
until then, I choose to use it every night and breathe!
until then, I choose to use it every night and breathe!
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Re: How to get rid of CPAP?
49er wrote:You keep citing a 20% success rate after 1 year at 4 hours a night. Do you have a citation?
Todzo wrote: Expert Interview: Dr. Carl Stepnowsky on CPAP Adherence August 21, 2012
http://doctorstevenpark.com/expert-inte ... -adherence
adherence rates: The MP3 @ starting at twelve minutes and twenty four seconds (condensed):
“Of 100 people who are diagnosed with Sleep Apnea and referred for CPAP 80 accept the CPAP, 40 continue at one year, of those 40 who continue after a year 20 are using it at the acceptable rate of 4 hours per night.”
Dr. Stepnowsky has been doing research into CPAP Adherence (as they call it now – I call it use) for many years. In the above statement he “summarizes the current literature” by giving the example of a hundred people to represent the percentages of those in the literature.49er wrote:Thank you for providing that. I don't think you can make any claim based on a study of 100 people.
Todzo wrote:I am simply sharing something I have found that works for me. I am also finding that others are finding the theory good. Consider what Dr. Barry Krakow mentioned concerning Dr Buteyko's theories which are all about eucapnic breathing:
Dr. Barry Krakow mentions that Dr. Buteyko's theories are being found to be true:
MP3 of (at 57:38) - Expert Interview: Dr. Barry Krakow on PTSD, Insomnia, and Sleep Apnea http://doctorstevenpark.com/expert-inte ... leep-apnea
Your post caught me on the road and I did not have the MP3 with me – so I downloaded. As it turns out the interview of 11/2012 was not on the site at that time and I ended up downloading a previous Dr. Krakow interview from a couple of years ago. I did e-mail Dr. Park who was glad for the heads up – did download a fresh copy and it works. The file should be 15,576,547 bytes (15.6 mb) and should have a date in November of this year displayed as it plays. The order of the files should be that it is the second one available since there has been only one expert interview since as of this date.49er wrote:You may have missed my previous response to you on this issue on another post but I listened to that segment and it had nothing to with eucapnic breathing or buteyko theories. Are you sure you have right tape?
If what you have is working well for you great! For me the EERS has been a winter time game changer. I am much more positive and getting a bit more done.
Have a great new year 49er!
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Re: How to get rid of CPAP?
Reply,GUEST2 wrote:And I will continue to make efforts to lose my spare weight.
Now I only eat vegetable and fish-- no meat. It makes me feel good.
I will keep you updated, wait for my good news.
non- fat meat is good but carbohydrates is the problem. The Doc who told you that losing 20 Lbs
could get you off CPAP forgot to mention that the fat tissues in you throat must be included.
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