Injury caused by CPAP; has there ever been even one?

Momster wrote:My first time on this forum. I am sad to read such immature and rude comments.

We are sad to hear the question about a FDA approved medical device that has been on the market for 20 years!
Besides it is a forum of "free" advice - you get what you pay for.

Momster = D.H. on another computer?
We have seen this before.
Easy enough to create your own fan club.
Injury due to cpap? HELL, NO!
Why even bring up such an outrageous contention?
Another dental device supporter, or butcher/surgeon?

D.H. wrote:

He especially worries about suffocating if the power fails, the unit fails, or the hose becomes obstructed or disconnected.

He also worries about electrocution, fire caused by CPAP, fumes from the motor, or other unspecified mishaps.

Now that you mention it, CPAP is dangerous! I'm quitting.

palerider wrote:

tlohse wrote:My CPAP tryed to eat me once. lol.

any interesting scars you can share?

Looks like it got the ears and eyes before help arrived.

chunkyfrog wrote:Momster = D.H. on another computer?
We have seen this before.
Easy enough to create your own fan club.
Injury due to cpap? HELL, NO!
Why even bring up such an outrageous contention?
Another dental device supporter, or butcher/surgeon?

I don't think DH is smart enough to create a second account... it took a while to figure out how to create the first one.... and he's been vomiting up all over the place ever since.

I'd suspect the concern troll contingent though.

DeadlySleep wrote:

palerider wrote:

tlohse wrote:My CPAP tryed to eat me once. lol.

any interesting scars you can share?

Looks like it got the ears and eyes before help arrived.

Scary!!!

It's not nice how people are just making insults because my friend is so uncomfortable with CPAP. I'm very aware how dangerous his non-compliance is, given that I've been using CPAP myself for 17 years (with minimal issues).

He is not overly agile and has the symptoms of catalepsy. I think that this is because of severe untreated sleep apnea, but that's not certain. It is for this reason he fears not being awakened on time and suffocating.

While this is may not be a realistic fear, it is not a completely irrational one either.

D.H. wrote:It's not nice how people are just making insults because my friend is so uncomfortable with CPAP. I'm very aware how dangerous his non-compliance is, given that I've been using CPAP myself for 17 years (with minimal issues).

He is not overly agile and has the symptoms of catalepsy. I think that this is because of severe untreated sleep apnea, but that's not certain. It is for this reason he fears not being awakened on time and suffocating.

While this is may not be a realistic fear, it is not a completely irrational one either.

simple fact, if your friend doesn't use cpap, he will die.

he'll die if he does use it, just probably not as soon.

perhaps you should look to yourself, and your posts, for the quality of responses you're getting.

palerider wrote: simple fact, if your friend doesn't use cpap, he will die.

he'll die if he does use it, just probably not as soon.

perhaps you should look to yourself, and your posts, for the quality of responses you're getting.

He needs to be reassured, not "threatened." Yes, I know that he's under a very real death threat, but I don't think reiterating it is helpful.

D.H. wrote:I don't think

ftfy.

[quote="D.H."]He wears a full face mask. The one thing that I thought of is that if he vomits into the mask and loses consciousness, could he drown?[/quote
Does your Friend Binge Drink until he passes out?
some famous rock stars have died from inhaling their own vomit after they passed out. It's a real threat and using Cpap in that situation could make it worse.
If he does not have these types of issues then he has very little to worry about using Cpap.

I thought I read once of an elderly woman dying in a nursing home suffocating when power went out in a storm and her CPAP machine lost power but just looked today and found an elderly man died when his bipap machine lost power. He was on oxygen as well..https://www.medicalmalpracticelawyers.c ... ion-death/

jtravel wrote:

D.H. wrote:He wears a full face mask. The one thing that I thought of is that if he vomits into the mask and loses consciousness, could he drown?

Does your Friend Binge Drink until he passes out? Some famous rock stars have died from inhaling their own vomit after they passed out. It's a real threat and using CPAP in that situation could make it worse.
If he does not have these types of issues then he has very little to worry about using CPAP.

He does not drink or use drugs. However, he does report the symptoms of catalepsy.

So what? Why doesn't he have a diagnosis vs some criteria found on the internet that probably overlaps lots of other things and may well not include vital stuff he's unaware of (not being a doctor)?

D.H. wrote:I have been using CPAP for over seventeen years and have never seriously thought about such a thing.

However, I have a friend who was more recently been diagnosed and very much worries about this. He especially worries about suffocating if the power fails, the unit fails, or the hose becomes obstructed or disconnected.

He also worries about electrocution, fire caused by CPAP, fumes from the motor, or other unspecified mishaps.

If somebody can assure me that this never happened, perhaps I can put his mind at ease.

Sounds like your friend is looking for excuses NOT to use the therapy.
His odds are higher of him dying faster if he DOESN'T use it.

D.H. wrote: However, he does report the symptoms of catalepsy.

That's also a symptom of Sleep Apnea. I had it before I started therapy.......then it went away, along with my daytime sleepiness and other symptoms.


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