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MarylandCPAPer wrote:

marylandCPAPer wrote:
To the original poster, on a serious note: As others have mentioned, there are other sleep apnea forums on the Internet that are categorized as you describe. I posted to one of those before I found this one and was lucky to get a response in a week. It seems the more categories on a forum, the fewer responses a person gets when they need help and the longer it takes to get a response. Very frustrating!

There are a lot of people here who are generous in giving their time to help, so questions are answered much faster here--minutes or maybe hours, rather than days (or not at all). I think having everyone on one page, so to speak, helps with that. If you still need more information after getting answers to a question, posting a reply will push your topic back up to the top of the list and encourage dialogue.

I am relatively new but read a lot here. It is great to learn about different types of equipment, masks, and overall experiences from people who have been using PAP treatment for many years as well as those just starting treatment. It also helps to know there are many others out there coping with the same types of issues and that there are solutions, not just problems, in dealing with this serious medical condiion.

The one change I think would be helpful here would be a separate section for things like meetings and in-person support groups, if they exist, as that information can get lost on a fast-moving board. I was so excited when I first started on CPAP therapy to see a meeting in my area listed as the newest posting in a section on sleep groups on another forum that appeared to be coming up, until I realized the announcement was two years old. I doubt that would happen here.

Thank you to all who provide serious answers as well as contribute a sense of humor here, both of which are greatly needed in dealing with sleep apnea issues and treatment. And thanks for keeping us all in one place, instead of split up into a multitude of different sub-forums.

Edited: Please disregard this post. As evidenced by the posts that followed, it is clear that some inmates are now running this previously sometimes sane asylum, or at least this thread. I'm sure the original poster is long gone. I don't know what I was thinking when I posted a serious reply to this topic.

Why am I the only person on this thread to be moderated?

-SWS wrote: A slight trigeminal neuralgia flareup and consequently trashed sleep make me feel as if these slap-happy and all-too-nutty threads are a refreshing reprieve from recurring pain and sleep deprivation.

-SWS wrote: . . . Thank you, friends.

MarylandCPAPer wrote:
As evidenced by the posts that followed, it is clear that some inmates are now running this previously sometimes sane asylum, or at least this thread.

jules wrote: . . . I thought this was always an insane asylum.

some jerk from page 2 of this thread wrote:. . . takes one to know one i know you are but what am i nyah! . . .

-SWS wrote: Along the way, zany humor becomes ineveitable in these repeat threads, prompting Carbonman to microwave a bag of popcorn.

carbonman wrote: It's where we get to know each other, away from the mechanics of cpap.

MarylandCPAPer wrote: Edited: Please disregard this post. As evidenced by the posts that followed, it is clear that some inmates are now running this previously sometimes sane asylum, or at least this thread. I'm sure the original poster is long gone. I don't know what I was thinking when I posted a serious reply to this topic.

carbonman wrote:That's life. No matter where you go you got dues to pay.

-SWS wrote: And in the end, some of us manage to sleep a little better with a little help from our well-meaning cpaptalk friends...

carbonman wrote:

-SWS wrote: Along the way, zany humor becomes ineveitable in these repeat threads, prompting Carbonman to microwave a bag of popcorn.

...Many times, the message isn't about cpap, it's about me and it's about you.
....and sometimes it's hard to take.

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-SWS wrote: And in the end, some of us manage to sleep a little better with a little help from our well-meaning cpaptalk friends...

In The End-the love you take is equal to the love you make.
Lennon/McCartney

Muffy wrote:Dyslexic Posts
This forum is for posts with words that at first glimpse appear to be typos but are really signs of dyslexia.

Carbonman wrote:Many times, the message isn't about cpap, it's about me and it's about you.
....and sometimes it's hard to take.

MarylandCPAPer wrote:Why am I the only person on this thread to be moderated?

Rebecca R wrote:Muffy please moderate some other posters so no one feels singled out.

-SWS wrote:[Moderated. Reference to trigeminal neuralgia deleted. Please refer to posting guidelines]

Rebecca R wrote:[Moderated. Reference to moderating deleted. Please refer to posting guidelines]

Muffy wrote:[Moderated. Reference to deleting deleted. Please refer to posting guidelines]

-SWS wrote:forum categories versus one unwieldy category. However, that topic of all topics has been thoroughly discussed and rediscussed so many times on this message board, that I managed to lose track of just how many near-identical reiterations we've had...

-SWS wrote:forum categories versus one unwieldy category. However, that topic of all topics has been thoroughly discussed and rediscussed so many times on this message board, that I managed to lose track of just how many near-identical reiterations we've had...

roster wrote:

jnk wrote:

roster wrote: OK, now I am convinced. Just needed someone to show me the way. Johnny set up the categories please.

We should probably have a poll first.

Muffy?

Sorry, there is no category for polls.

Really wrote:

-SWS wrote:forum categories versus one unwieldy category. However, that topic of all topics has been thoroughly discussed and rediscussed so many times on this message board, that I managed to lose track of just how many near-identical reiterations we've had...

Too bad we just can't make up our minds. Really!