Interesting article looking for a cure

[blusaber]

Thought this was a different idea maybe some day the hose will be a thing of the past
http://www.morning-times.com/articles/2 ... _apnea.txt

Gary

[chunkyfrog]

First they have to prove it is effective enough to justify the cost.
The surgery sounds very complex; i.e. expensive.
A tall order, at the very least.
I wish them luck.

[blusaber]

I agree, Im just glad they keep doing research a 30 percent fail rate for cpap users is way to high.

Gary

[robysue]

I agree, Im just glad they keep doing research a 30 percent fail rate for cpap users is way to high.

Gary

Well, I wish that they'd throw some $$ at figuring out how to really address that 30 percent failure rate. All too often folks are essentially given little or no help from the professionals in addressing the very real problems in adjusting to CPAP therapy.

I mean---how much research has been done into figuring out how to really eliminate aerophagia for those of us unlucky enough to suffer it? It's one thing if it's just a bit of funny farting. It's another thing if you wake up in tears night after night after night.

How much money has been thrown at figuring out how to insure that people are properly titrated? How many people suffer needlessly night after night from trying to sleep with a CPAP that's either set too high or too low and they don't even know it because they've never found a forum like this? Instead, they've just quietly given up and thrown the thing in the closet.

And how about doing some research into whether the folks in that 30 percent who fail group wind up having some kind of problems that start to manifest themselves AFTER starting CPAP? Can CPAP itself cause enough arousals to cause enough disruption to the sleep cycle to be problematic? And in that case, how do you address reducing the number of CPAP arousals without allowing the number of apneas and hypopneas to be large enough to cause health problems?

Research into making the current therapy more acceptable and easier to tolerate is what's needed. But that's just my two cents.

[sister]

Thank you Robysue,I totally agree!!!

[Geminidream]

Thanks, Robysue!

I will take that one step further....not only do we have health professionals that are not properly attending to the needs of sleep apnea patients, but there is that element of thinking that a lot of people do when they have a health issue....look for a quick fix. There is no such thing for most health issues.....it may get fixed, but at what cost? After all, most of us have suffered with OSA for a long time before recognizing it or doing anything about it. The damage done to our bodies from it will take time to reverse if it does at all. Minimally invasive or not invasive at all cuts in on their (the medical community's) profits...that is the real reason not enough research is done in certain areas. But if its seen as profitable, by golly it will be the next new procedure. I'll keep my cpap machine any day.