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LSAT wrote:

ozze_dollar wrote:Looks like not many make it into the 70's.

I think there are many more older users, but, if they have been on CPAP for a long time they probably tend to spend their time on more productive things than message boards.

Very true, but it's a great time killer on the days when the arthritis flares up!

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29 Here. I've only been using my CPAP for 1 day at home and I wish I had started using one 15 years ago.

I dont like that.No one has made it to the 80s.

I'll be 83 next month and hope to get a few more years in.

it should be pointed out that cpap is in its infancy. The "50" group no doubt were on the initial explosion of users in their forties,
and now in their fifties.

Anyone with a hereditary, weight, airway, congenital, asthmatic, deviated septum etc problem can develop 02 deprivation.

grybeard77 wrote:I'll be 83 next month and hope to get a few more years in.

Hey, grybeard, a few more years?! Go for 20, man. We already have a few up there in the recent poll, but we're a bit light there and need more. That's my goal too! Go for it, man!!!

MrSandman wrote:Not too many live past the 60's as you can see

Well, I have! and plan to live a LOT longer! let's not stereotype -- most people think I'm in late 50s, early 60s when actually I'm pushing 73. Feel like I'm in my 30s-40s most times. So, if my BiPap will make me feel and look younger . . . WOW! Still waiting.

Well, I'm 60, glad to have made it this far, then shoot they moved that darn retirement age up! Sucks!

ozze_dollar wrote:I dont like that.No one has made it to the 80s.

Many! have made it into their eighties... either they don't have apnea or they aren't on message boards.

who's over 100?

If diagnosed before the advent of CPAP, one would either go untreated or have a tracheotomy.
not many options then.

Just revisited this thread. Results have become a pretty good bell curve, even with skewing elements. Statistically significant, in any case. If you let yourself get old and fat, you have an uphill battle and will .end up blowing your retirement on medical care, just as the American corporate system prescribes.

But as Mark Twain said, "There are are liars, damn liars, and then statisticians." Or something...can't quite remember, as usual...

This is the first time I've seen this poll. I'd like to see it compared to "How old were you when you were first diagnosed?"

I can't believe that so many have viewed this post and so few in comparison have indicated their age.

Interesting how people work isn't it?