TOOT!!

[stanta]

I suppose we could check lethality of the various gases via the combustion test.

[Shellie_p]

Ahh yes the mornings of what my boyfriend calls Lumberjack burps upon sitting up.

Occasionally on a really bad day the air makes it through. But for the most part mine is just stomach air. He gets a laugh outta me cause I turn beet red when I have those monsterous burps.

[OceanGoingGal]

Wouldn't it be nice if we could do this at will!!! I remember one day walking in Tampa Hospital I suddenly let a big one loose. I was mortified! I came sliding out with no warning. I just kept walking. I was so embarrased. Recently on my cruise I had reason to want to let one out, the SBD type. As I stood there at my muster station in the lifeboat drill the woman behind me was complaining loudly. She was acting as if the whole drill process was a plot just to inconvenience her. I struggled to hear the instructions, that I had heard many times before. Suddenly the thought came to mind that If I let one loose it would give her something to really b****about. Then the perfectly nice people behind me would have to pay too and that would not be fair to them. On another cruise I took a woman that is mentally retarded as my guest. She is tiny barely reaching 5'. In the muster drill she and I stood in the back row against the wall. She suddenly blurted out "It smells funny back here" Everyone had to giggle t that.

Laura

[OutaSync]

Laura!!!

And here I was afraid to go on a cruise with you, lest you find out that I tooted all night on CPAP. We could have made a duet.

Seriously, this is really interfering with my job. It's very hard to have to sit in a small conference room and unable to hold it back. It's not the smell, as it's just air, it's the noise. Like gunshots. I'm avoiding meeting with people. I can only run out to "make copies" so many times.

[OceanGoingGal]

Bev, Feel free to cruise with me anytime and we can toot our way across the ocean. Now if we took a group on a cruise from here we could have some fun with the passenger talent show. Just imagine the "OSA Orchestra"

Laura

[OutaSync]

I don't know what it is about tooting that is so funny. I have to struggle to keep a straight face when my grandchildren look sideways at me. THey are too polite to say, "Grandmom, did you do that?" I always look around like "Who did that?" Cracks me up every time. Maybe I should get a dog.

[LoQ]

A friend of mine calls them barking spiders. That always cracks me up because it is so incongruous.

[roster]

While you guys are speaking openly about this subject, I want to quote a very smart dude who has things under control:

How To Have a Great (insert your favorite euphemism or vulgarism here) Every Morning and Rid Yourself of CPAP Gas for the Entire Day

1. Eat as soon as arising.

2. Eat 3-ounces of Kellogg’s Bran Buds (they contain psyllium) with milk. I use almond milk, but milk which has the lactose predigested for lactose intolerant people is also good. There are plenty of lactose-free brands available such as Lactaid and Dairy Ease. If I am in a hotel I carry the lactase tablets in the packets which work well with digesting the lactose in regular milk. I also carry Bran Buds when traveling in small premeasured bottles.

Actually measure out with a 3-ounce measuring cup (I use those little disposable plastic cups) a 3-ounce volume of the Bran Buds. This is so that you get consistency from day to day.

3. I also eat an egg and a 3-ounce cup of walnuts. This is not part of the forumula for aerophagia relief so eat according to your preference. Eating will however stimulate the bowel and warm foods are the best for this.

4. Drink a hot cup of your favorite beverage. This helps to stimulate the bowel.

5. Brush and floss your teeth. I find that the sweet taste of the toothpaste helps to stimulate the bowel.

6. By the time I have eaten, drank a hot cup of decaf tea or coffee, brushed my teeth and shaved, the bowel is stimulated and the psyllium and other fiber in the Bran Buds that I ate the previous morning are very reliable and thorough with their task. I find that even the gas higher up in the stomach is gone.

7. Remember to stay well hydrated throughout the day - good advice for everyone.

It make take a few days of developing a routine before this is successful. Kelloggs says two weeks but for me it was only two days.

Now silence!

[kempo]

Yall know if Al Gore reads this post he will start a movement to add a co2 carbon tax on cpapers.

[LinkC]

Gosh! I used to have a lot of respect for you....especially the ladies!

Now I have even more!!! lol

I thought it must be a common thing. After all, we ARE shoving an elevated air pressure into our systems! (Next time you board an airliner, consider how many passengers have farted into that seat cushion as the ambient pressure drops. The one they tell you to hug if you crash in the water!)

[LoQ]

LinkC, have you been keeping up with the mask strap marks thread? I can't wait to get your reaction on THAT on. If you were embarrassed to buy Lansinoh, you must see which other aisle you need to visit.

[Bons]

Yall know if Al Gore reads this post he will start a movement to add a co2 carbon tax on cpapers.

Is it 2014 that the sales tax goes on our equipment to help pay for health care reform? I don't mind, since I happily put my jobless college graduate back on our insurance in July - her meds were costing us $6000 a year since no insurance company wanted her at any price with her pre-existing conditions. A 3% tax wont equal that.

[kempo]

Yall know if Al Gore reads this post he will start a movement to add a co2 carbon tax on cpapers.

Is it 2014 that the sales tax goes on our equipment to help pay for health care reform? I don't mind, since I happily put my jobless college graduate back on our insurance in July - her meds were costing us $6000 a year since no insurance company wanted her at any price with her pre-existing conditions. A 3% tax wont equal that.

I didn't know that you could put your child back on your insurance once they got off if they are over 18. I know that they can remain on your insurance starting next year until they turn 26. If your child is an adult and jobless your States Medicaid should pay for her health care problems.

If you think this new healthcare bill is going to save you money you have your head in the sand. Not only is it going to cost more, the government will tell you what you can and can not do, and when they say no your out of luck. "3% wont equal that." Try 25% to 50% increase in healthcare cost plus it will be rationed with longer a waiting time.

[PST]

If you think this new healthcare bill is going to save you money you have your head in the sand. Not only is it going to cost more, the government will tell you what you can and can not do, and when they say no your out of luck. "3% wont equal that." Try 25% to 50% increase in healthcare cost plus it will be rationed with longer a waiting time.

Can you really support these sweeping assertions of fact? For example, what part of the act is going to allow the government to tell me what I can and can not do, "and when they say no your out of luck"? I have yet to see anyone cite a single word in the PPACA that restricts the medical services that a person can purchase. If someone says to me that they think the act will be a big fat failure, well, that's just an opinion and all I can say is, we'll see. But if someone says that it allows the government to ration care and tell us what we can or cannot have, that is an issue of fact, and it ought to be possible to say where in the act that right to ration or restrict care can be found.

[Amigo]

If you think this new healthcare bill is going to save you money you have your head in the sand. Not only is it going to cost more, the government will tell you what you can and can not do, and when they say no your out of luck. "3% wont equal that." Try 25% to 50% increase in healthcare cost plus it will be rationed with longer a waiting time.

Can you really support these sweeping assertions of fact? For example, what part of the act is going to allow the government to tell me what I can and can not do, "and when they say no your out of luck"? I have yet to see anyone cite a single word in the PPACA that restricts the medical services that a person can purchase. If someone says to me that they think the act will be a big fat failure, well, that's just an opinion and all I can say is, we'll see. But if someone says that it allows the government to ration care and tell us what we can or cannot have, that is an issue of fact, and it ought to be possible to say where in the act that right to ration or restrict care can be found.

Well said, PST.

It sounds like someone has swallowed the scare tactics of the right-wing hook, line and sinker. Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin (dipstick and lipstick) would be sooooooo proud.