Dealing with your peers

[quietmorning]

When you deal with your peers (as dealing with the affects of sleep apnea) what are the main assumptions they tend to hold about apnea and about your day to day challenges both day and night with it?

The reason I'm asking is that I'd like to start putting together workshops I can share with you that you can either take to your sleep clinics to hopefully have them implemented or for you to implement them yourselves.

I may post another question here and there once every quarter or so as I exhaust one angle and move onto the other.

This will not be a commercial venture.

[Stormynights]

A woman I worked with told me I was a hypochondriac. She is on the hose now.

[quietmorning]

A woman I worked with told me I was a hypochondriac. She is on the hose now.

**shakes head**

THAT'S a rude awakening!

[Cereal Killer]

When you deal with your peers (as dealing with the affects of sleep apnea)

What do you mean by peers? Other CPAPers?

[quietmorning]

I mean people in your face to face life. Work, home, social circles.

[Stormynights]

I usually don't tell anyone anymore except very close friends and close family. I think non hoseheads just don't get it. If I see someone having problems I might talk to them.

[kaiasgram]

Some of the assumptions I've encountered:

SA is just snoring.
SA is not serious.
SA only affects you at night.
CPAP is an easy fix and not a big deal.

But I've found that it's not so much what people assume, it's what they simply don't know that can make things challenging for us with our friends, coworkers, etc.

[Cereal Killer]

When you deal with your peers (as dealing with the affects of sleep apnea) what are the main assumptions they tend to hold about apnea and about your day to day challenges both day and night with it?

It doesn't matter what assumptions they have, especially as it concerns business and business travel.

I do what I need to do. If I need to carry CPAP with me, I carry it. If I need to avoid caffeine, I avoid it. If I need to make sure I allow seven hours of sleep, I do.

Everybody has weaknesses and things they need to make compensation for. CPAPers are no different.

[Cereal Killer]

SA is just snoring.
SA is not serious.
SA only affects you at night.
CPAP is an easy fix and not a big deal.

Let them think it. Their thoughts won't change my behavior or how I take care of myself.

[YogaKitty]

Well, my mother immediately told me it "was a racket" basically that sleep studies are just a new fad, the centers are popping up everywhere, doctors are sending everyone to get a study, and of course the results will be that I have OSA because it's all a money making scheme.


BTW, I was diagnosed last summer, my brother was diagnosed this winter, and I'm pretty sure my mom and dad have OSA too. But it's not genetics, "its a racket"

[SleepingUgly]

The reason I'm asking is that I'd like to start putting together workshops I can share with you that you can either take to your sleep clinics to hopefully have them implemented or for you to implement them yourselves.

I don't understand. Who is your target audience and what is your purpose with these workshops?

[LSAT]

The reason I'm asking is that I'd like to start putting together workshops I can share with you that you can either take to your sleep clinics to hopefully have them implemented or for you to implement them yourselves.

I don't understand. Who is your target audience and what is your purpose with these workshops?

Workshops????? Who cares what other's think?

[ChicagoGranny]

Workshops????? Who cares what other's think?

+1

(others)

[BlackSpinner]

Workshops????? Who cares what other's think?

I agree however many people allow themselves to be trampled by other peoples opinions. This would give them a club to use to beat them off.

[YogaKitty]

I think maybe it is "worksheets" instead of "workshops" But that is just my guess from the context of the OP