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by Todds
Wed Sep 20, 2006 2:04 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Anyone else playing the didgeridoo to help with apnea?
Replies: 76
Views: 23269

Yup, my insurance co. is paying $68 towards my new $89 didgey! They called my doctor to ask about it and they called back after a meeting the next day to say it is newly covered under "therapeutic accessories". I have a PPO with Blue Cross and they wanted a copy of my receipt along with my doc's scr...
by Todds
Wed Sep 20, 2006 12:01 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Anyone else playing the didgeridoo to help with apnea?
Replies: 76
Views: 23269

Wow! Lots of great articles in magazines this month about the didgeridoo helping to releive symptoms of OSA. One is in the current issue of Mens Health, and one in Health magazine. The one in Men's Health focuses on "strange cures that really work" and it's got some other ineteresting remedies that ...
by Todds
Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:30 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Anyone else playing the didgeridoo to help with apnea?
Replies: 76
Views: 23269

Here we go again. Two fellas completely off topic over an off topic post. I must say, however, that if someone reading this thread doesn't have any appreciation for the didgeridoo (or respect for those that play for fun and/or therapeutic reasons) should be nice or go away. Naturally, L.A.Outback wi...
by Todds
Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:01 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Anyone else playing the didgeridoo to help with apnea?
Replies: 76
Views: 23269

"Circular" breathing

Let's call "circular breathing" CB for short. The term conjures up a seemingly impossible physio-mechanical feat. You obviously can't breath in and out at the same time... What you're actually doing is using your mouth/tongue like a bellows to push a tiny bit of air OUT, while simultaneously grabing...
by Todds
Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:15 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Anyone else playing the didgeridoo to help with apnea?
Replies: 76
Views: 23269

Thanks for the good wishes. I just got a new bird call sound out of my didge today and it's been making my dog sing.

Todd S
by Todds
Wed Aug 30, 2006 5:20 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Anyone else playing the didgeridoo to help with apnea?
Replies: 76
Views: 23269

To get my original post back on track... Those of you that are currently playing the didge for OSA, how often and how long do you play each day/week, and do you use the "circular breathing" technique? I believe that the circular breathing technique is what strengthens and tightens everything in the ...
by Todds
Sun Aug 20, 2006 9:35 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Anyone else playing the didgeridoo to help with apnea?
Replies: 76
Views: 23269

Congrats on your didgeridoo. I started this thread a while back and I'm so happy to read all of the good responses. I've started listening to didgeridoo music at night, too. The drone of the didge creates a sort of harmony with the hum and buzz of my machine. I bought a CD called "Brain Massage" by ...
by Todds
Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:30 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Anyone else playing the didgeridoo to help with apnea?
Replies: 76
Views: 23269

If you want to make your own didge from pvc pipe, just be sure that you hose it out REALLY WELL before muking around on it. The ones from L.A.Outback are 2" diameter and about 4 feet long, and they somehow form the mouthpiece into a perfectly comfortable shape and size right out of the same pipe (no...
by Todds
Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:22 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Anyone else playing the didgeridoo to help with apnea?
Replies: 76
Views: 23269

You cam play a didgeridoo soft and quiet as well as hard and loud. You don't really blow air into a didge like a trumpet or horn, you vibrate your lips softly like a reed. I live in an apartment and my neighbors have never complained (although one of them plays a viola).
by Todds
Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:42 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Anyone else playing the didgeridoo to help with apnea?
Replies: 76
Views: 23269

I just checked all of the links to L.A.Outback and they all work. Try again: http://www.laoutback.com
by Todds
Sat Aug 05, 2006 4:40 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Anyone else playing the didgeridoo to help with apnea?
Replies: 76
Views: 23269

Oh yeah, and you don't have to spend a lot of money on your first didgeridoo to learn how to play. I have 3 now (one low in pitch, one high pitch and one in the middle). My first one cost me $89 that I got from an outfit in California called L.A.Outback: http://www.laoutback.com Great guys there and...
by Todds
Sat Aug 05, 2006 4:33 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Anyone else playing the didgeridoo to help with apnea?
Replies: 76
Views: 23269

I think it really started to help after I lerned the "circular breathing" technique. It took me about two weeeks to figure that little trick out. Some people learn it fast and some try too hard and push themselevs rather than having fun with it, which slows down the learning. When you play didgerido...
by Todds
Fri Aug 04, 2006 7:36 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Anyone else playing the didgeridoo to help with apnea?
Replies: 76
Views: 23269

Funny, I've been logged into this forum all day to see if I can find any other didgeridoo players here with my same experience, but all I get is people wondering if my original post is spam. Whaa? I AM NOT A COMPUTER PROGRAM! Anyway, thanks for reading, but if you don't have a valid, interesting, or...
by Todds
Fri Aug 04, 2006 2:25 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Anyone else playing the didgeridoo to help with apnea?
Replies: 76
Views: 23269

Here's a link that explains about what a didgeridoo is, and how to play one: http://www.laoutback.com/didgeridoo/edu ... eGuide.htm
by Todds
Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:49 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Anyone else playing the didgeridoo to help with apnea?
Replies: 76
Views: 23269

How on earth would be spamming on a topic like this? I don't think WalMart sells didgeridoos.