Interesting. I've been using CPAP for about 18 months now, and every night without fail I wake at 4 hours +/- 15 mins. Usually I can't get back to sleep so I lie awake for ages, go to the loo, have a drink etc and eventually take the mask off and I'm out like a light. Sometimes I'm not aware of waki...

Dynodad, don't judge the forum based on a few angry posts. Stick around and get to know the personalities and some posts won't surprise you. Most are very helpful, knowledgeable and especially welcoming. Yes, absolutely. I had some great help here when I started out and was struggling to make it wo...

13 replies by Dynodad in the last 2 pages.......hummmmmmm sounds like Dynodad prefers to get an argument going instead of just bowing out gracefully once he's made his point. Not really, I thought I'd leave the thread alone for a while to see if common sense prevailed, but I got fed up with all the...

By your standards perhaps that was nice, but I see where your nickname comes from Go to Hell. You know absolutely nothing about me or how I came by that name. True. But I can guess. Relax, it's just someone on the internet who doesn't agree with you. You are really a jerk. I really was feeling badl...

SleepingUgly wrote:Speaking of pizza... Is there a low-carb alternative?

That would be missing the entire point of the pizza - like alcohol-free beer (ick)

I think I'm in the wrong thread...

But we have pizza ....

Do NOT tell me what I want. You have no right to believe that you have any understanding whatsoever of what those of us with better attitudes want. "Better" attitudes? "Different" I could accept, but "better"? That's just your opinion. I just don't like people that want to whine and bitch and then ...

chunkyfrog wrote:DynoDad left on page 4. . .
Let's order pizza for the choir.

Mmmm .. pizza

I think newbies would find it helpful to hear that people "hated" and/or did not adapt immediately to CPAP, but then eventually did accept and adjust to it. That's more inspiring to someone who is struggling than hearing from those who took to it like ducks to water, I think. It goes without saying...

So that means that the OP has conformed to the definition of troll = someone who tries to stir up dissension and we bit. Yes, if you believe that he came here to "stir up dissension" - I don't happen to believe that. And, I'm done here. For someone who has never met me EMS, you're remarkably percep...

Adults who are offered a solution to their problems, and the solution works for them, who come and bitch after 6 months, need to get a life and do some volunteer work. Hmm, I have a life - family, hobbies, etc - and I do quite a lot of volunteer work but I still hate CPAP. Got any other advice I ca...

I wish we had an internet sociologist here. I just read the original post again and it is actually quite mild as far as vents go. Certainly not worthy of "tough love". It's interesting that it got 6 pages of attention. I hope he comes back. I wouldn't. Nor would I. Nah, you'd have to try *much* har...

When someone posts about all the negatives of cpap and how much they hate what having to do it has done to them, we tend to get our hackles up because *IF* we commisserate over those complaints, it gives new people ammunition to complain and whine rather than work on being successful. The "attitude...

I don't think the so-called "tough love" dispensed freely on this board is particularly helpful, except perhaps in very tiny doses, after and along with empathy and validation, and only to someone who needs to take action. It doesn't sound like the OP is swallowing in self-pity, and his disdain for...

BlackSpinner wrote: I will bet when he has a cold the whole family has to be there on bended knee to serve the poor dieing baby.

How childish.

If you're going to insult me, at least have the decency to get the spelling correct.

Yes, I'm a spelling/grammar Nazi. Because standards matter

And we have the right to put things straight for all the newbies looking for help. Yep, keep filling them newbies full of hope, and then beat the shot out of them when they admit life isn't perfect - that's the way to help people. Yes he can stay in denial for as long as he wants What I am in denia...