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Re: My Story, Next Steps
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 2:41 am
by Jas_williams
thx1138 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 12, 2019 10:13 pm
So my question then: people here go for years with CPAP? They find a pressure setting and use it for decades? Is there any downside to this constant regimen, other than some hassles when traveling or camping?
I've been on apap therapy for over a year I see no reason to change my treatment now it's stable pressures can be tweaked if needed a quick glance at the machine when I take my mask off tells me how I did, I can do detailed with Sleepy head if I feel the need.
The hassles for camping and travelling are minimal and I feel great.
Your throat muscles won't atrophy overnight there are no throat muscles used during breathing, it's all chest and diaphragm and your on a non invasive ventilator i.e. it does not breath for you you still have to breath, so you chest muscles and diaphragm will not atropy either.
Re: My Story, Next Steps
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 8:12 am
by Pugsy
thx1138 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:09 am
So it I used crutches for years, my leg muscles would atrophy. Do my throat muscles get changed by 8 hrs of CPAP every night for years? Should I get a digereedoo?
Number one unless you get a real ventilator you are still using your own muscles to breathe.
Number two...even if you were using a real ventilator at night...if you don't use it while awake the muscles wouldn't atrophy because the exercise while awake would offset any lack or work that happened while asleep.
CPAP/APAP.....are NOT ventilators...they don't/can't force you to do any breathing you wouldn't be doing anyway. They just help hold the airway open so that when you do the breathing you would be doing anyway that the air makes it to the lungs where you need it and doesn't get stopped or blocked in the upper airway.