carbonman wrote: . . . My impression of the Drs. comments about cflex and auto
are that he just has not seen data to prove that it works.
But is not against it being there if it does help people
use their cpap.
I was totally fascinated w/the concept of
comfort is only needed when we are awake,
not when we are asleep.
So, if "sense-awake" is to work,
are new masks going to be developed to allow you
to breath comfortably at 0 to ??? pressure when you are awake?
How is that going to work?
Will they just be masks w/larger anti asphyxia valves? . . .
Good points carbonman. I think your take on it all helps to balance my initial take on his words in my earlier thread. I think the wording of some of his comments caught me off guard (after all, I am an autobilevel with Easy-Breathe user), but the more I think about his overall points, the more I think his take has real merit, even though he seems to be coming at the issues from a completely different angle than I'm used to. He was speaking in shorthand so that people like me, with no real background in medicine or science, could follow. So he had to cut a
few corners somewhere, I guess. He made me think. And you really can't ask for more than that from a public lecturer.
Your thoughts on a different kind of mask for pressures lower than 4 cm is intriguing. Thanks for that. I hadn't thought of that at all.
And I guess the whole sense-awake thing may prove to have some value in some way one day--who knows? We need guys to feel free to keep thinking outside the box, no matter how silly the ideas sound at first to guys like me. After all, hooking up a guy to a backward vacuum cleaner must have sounded like a pretty silly idea at first too, right? Though, rested gal's point is a truly solid one--they had better do their research well before rushing to market so that it doesn't turn out that they are experimenting on US!
jeff
