Use CPAP for naps?

projecttoday · Post by **projecttoday** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 4:49 am

The guy in the medical supply company who sold me my CPAP machine told me that if I wasn't planning on sleeping at least 4 hours that there was no point in using the CPAP. It seems to me that if my brain is being deprived of oxygen while I'm asleep that I should always use it. Or not?

Diamondminek · Post by **Diamondminek** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 5:06 am

The guy is an idiot - it needs used for each and every time you are asleep. Think about your untreated ahi, that still applies even for a 30 minute nap - and the point of a nap is a pick me up to feel better from - so it needs to be restful.

Pap-Daddy · Post by **Pap-Daddy** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 5:59 am

projecttoday wrote:It seems to me that if my brain is being deprived of oxygen while I'm asleep that I should always use it. Or not?

Once you get used to using cpap you will not want to ever sleep w/o it, even for 10 mins. What the idiot DME is confusing is compliance hours, which need to be an avg of >4 hrs. each day for 30 consecutive days at least 70% of the time. What he has failed to understand is that (esp. while getting used to sleeping this way) if you used the cpap for say 3.5 hrs you can indeed use it for a nap of say 45 min to an hour or so to make up the needed 30 min for you 4hr daily compliance avg.

Beware of more bad info coming from this very inexperienced DME.

D.H. · Post by **D.H.** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 5:59 am

A lot of patients don't use it for naps, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't. It's reasonable to assume (and unreasonable to assume otherwise) that the same episodes that affect your nighttime sleep also affect your mid-day naps.

For the record, I generally take Saturday afternoon naps and I always make sure to use my CPAP.

Why a DME would tell you otherwise is beyond me.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 6:21 am

D H wrote:Why a DME would tell you otherwise is beyond me.

its the 4hr compliance confused mindset

Cardsfan · Post by **Cardsfan** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 6:31 am

Use it every time my head is on the pillow.

D.H. · Post by **D.H.** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 7:14 am

Guest wrote:
D H wrote:Why a DME would tell you otherwise is beyond me.
its the 4hr compliance confused mindset

Too bad (s)he doesn't have better training. Note also that using the machine for a one-hour nap plus for three hours at night is theoretically "compliant."

Four hours is a bare minimum for compliance, not a goal. The goal should be the entire time that you sleep, naps and all. Typically, this should be from seven to nine hours. Perhaps it will be even more for new patients who haven't slept well in years.

D.H. · Post by **D.H.** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 7:15 am

D.H. wrote:
Guest wrote:
D H wrote:Why a DME would tell you otherwise is beyond me.
its the 4hr compliance confused mindset
Too bad (s)he doesn't have better training. Note also that using the machine for a one-hour nap plus for three hours at night is theoretically "compliant."

Four hours is a bare minimum for compliance (as formulated by medicare and copied by most private insurance in the U.S.), not a goal. The goal should be the entire time that you sleep, naps and all. Typically, this should be from seven to nine hours. Perhaps it will be even more for new patients who haven't slept well in years.

palerider · Post by **palerider** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 7:21 am

projecttoday wrote:The guy in the medical supply company who sold me my CPAP machine told me that if I wasn't planning on sleeping at least 4 hours that there was no point in using the CPAP. It seems to me that if my brain is being deprived of oxygen while I'm asleep that I should always use it. Or not?

seriously?
well, you're right to question that, because it's bullshit.
question anything else that idiot told you, and complain to his management.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 7:29 am

Cardsfan wrote:Use it every time my head is on the pillow.

That is indeed the best advice. Me I'm 120% compliant

palerider · Post by **palerider** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 8:03 am

Guest wrote:
Cardsfan wrote:Use it every time my head is on the pillow.
That is indeed the best advice. Me I'm 120% compliant

so, 4.8 hours a day, 84% of the time?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 8:11 am

palerider wrote:
Guest wrote:
Cardsfan wrote:Use it every time my head is on the pillow.
That is indeed the best advice. Me I'm 120% compliant
so, 4.8 hours a day, 84% of the time?

alright meathead 230% for me

palerider · Post by **palerider** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 8:42 am

Guest wrote:
palerider wrote:
Guest wrote:
Cardsfan wrote:Use it every time my head is on the pillow.
That is indeed the best advice. Me I'm 120% compliant
so, 4.8 hours a day, 84% of the time?
alright meathead 230% for me

well, the only other way to interpret 120% is that you use it (assuming 8 hours sleep) for an additional 1.6 hours while not sleeping.

"compliant" is such an ugly word, anyway. "do what you're told (and get inadequate treatment)".

just use it whenever you're going to sleep, every time, always.

ChicagoGranny · Post by **ChicagoGranny** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 9:07 am

Percently challenged people bug PailRider.

(Me too.)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 9:50 am

ChicagoGranny wrote:Percently challenged people bug PailRider.

(Me too.)

you also bug pailrider?
seems like everyone and everything does
just not a happy pail

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