single people using cpap

marjoriemayhem · Post by **marjoriemayhem** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 6:39 pm

I,ve been diagnosed with sleep apnea 18months ago. I call my machine Dark Vayder, as thats what I feel like when I wear it.
I would love to hear from any other single people who have found romance ,as its been a total non event for me as I just feel too embarrassed about my machine.
maybe we need to set up a singles club for cpap users,lol. Any takers.

Hose Head by Night · Post by **Hose Head by Night** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 7:48 pm

Have him dress as a Luke and a Her dress as Lea - Problem solved

Pugsy · Post by **Pugsy** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 7:53 pm

Dram wrote:What is RERA?

Respiratory Event Related Arousal

(3) A respiratory effort-related arousal event is defined as“ a sequence of breaths characterized by increasing respiratory effort leading to an arousal from sleep, but which does not meet criteria for an apnea or hypopnea.”

http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/conte ... /1287.full

BlackSpinner · Post by **BlackSpinner** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 7:56 pm

Dram wrote:I need cpap for RERA?

You do if you want to sleep and have dreams and not go psychotic.

Pugsy · Post by **Pugsy** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 7:58 pm

Dram wrote:I need cpap for RERA?

Maybe.. maybe not.

All depends on what else is going on. Have you had a sleep study to see if you had sleep apnea?

Pugsy · Post by **Pugsy** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 8:01 pm

Dram wrote:I had the sleep study. My Doctor say that I don't have apnea. He say I need cpap for Rera. But if I don't have apnea I don't understand why I need cpap.

Answered in your other thread and will leave this one to the person who started it and continue further discussions in the thread you created.

Hose Head by Night · Post by **Hose Head by Night** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 8:10 pm

marjoriemayhem wrote:I,ve been diagnosed with sleep apnea 18months ago. I call my machine Dark Vayder, as thats what I feel like when I wear it.
I would love to hear from any other single people who have found romance ,as its been a total non event for me as I just feel too embarrassed about my machine.
maybe we need to set up a singles club for cpap users,lol. Any takers.

Ease into it, when bringing home that date, disappear for a few minutes and say you want to slip into something more comforatable.

Hose Head by Night · Post by **Hose Head by Night** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 8:17 pm

yea roofie

BlackSpinner · Post by **BlackSpinner** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 8:31 pm

marjoriemayhem wrote:I,ve been diagnosed with sleep apnea 18months ago. I call my machine Dark Vayder, as thats what I feel like when I wear it.
I would love to hear from any other single people who have found romance ,as its been a total non event for me as I just feel too embarrassed about my machine.
maybe we need to set up a singles club for cpap users,lol. Any takers.

There have been several threads on this - some of them rather raunchy.

Basically you are doing this for your health and any person who cares for you would not want to see you suffer. Besides there is the whole "I don't sound like a Mac truck without a muffler anymore, aren't you lucky!" attitude.

Hose Head by Night · Post by **Hose Head by Night** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 8:39 pm

I will have to go look for those threads, I bet they are funny reading

missymelmel · Post by **missymelmel** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 9:09 pm

lol... I feel like a fighter pilot... who would want to sleep with that beside them? so un romantic

SleepingUgly · Post by **SleepingUgly** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 9:31 pm

missymelmel wrote:lol... I feel like a fighter pilot... who would want to sleep with that beside them? so un romantic

Um, you do realize the rest of us here look like that too, right? I do feel less attractive with my gear on, and I'm married. But I'm determined to believe that single people who are confident in themselves will have no problem attracting the kind of people they'd want to be with. I have to think that way because my son is only 8 and is on CPAP. For his sake I have to believe that not everyone he encounters, even as a teenager and in his 20's, will be superficial and immature. And I will have to work on him having the confidence to really believe that anyone that has a problem with it is not worth his while and not be hurt by them.

stanta · Post by **stanta** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 10:01 pm

I just tell them if i don't nobody sleeps. Romantic is for before you put on the mask.

Lizistired · Post by **Lizistired** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 10:27 pm

stanta wrote:... Romantic is for before you put on the mask.

Ditto, and when it comes to sleep, I sleep with my S9.

After I got on apap, I found out several people I know are too. It seems women are more reluctant to talk about it than men. Or maybe the men that talk about it are the ones who have had dramatic results.
The women I know on cpap know very little about it and don't discuss it. I was trying to talk with one friend who is randomly compliant about problems she might be having, and it seems as though there are so many other things that could be causing the symptoms that she doesn't take her OSA seriously. Diabetes, stress, menopause, thyroid, depression.... I tried to explain that this is the easy one, no drugs, no needles...
Sorry, way off topic but I can't imagine that I would give up breathing to keep someone from else from having to sleep next to me wearing my mask.
...Going to think about sleeping with a fighter pilot now.....

stripboat99 · Post by **stripboat99** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:36 pm

Before I met my significant other I would just ask them if they wanted to get any sleep or would they rather listen to me snore all night. And if they said that my snoring couldn't be that bad - I would tell them that it's so bad I don't sleep without the snorkel. Feel free to go home, but I'm sleeping with the snorkel.

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