This sounds false

Let's believe in some cases a considerable weight loss makes people not to need anymore the CPAP, OK? Here it goes.

A friend of mine told me her cousin's doctor told her the following:

When you don't need the CPAP anymore while sleeping on your side and you start opening the mouth, the saliva is going into your ear that is a sign you maybe don't need a CPAP anymore.

This sounds very hard to believe, why would you open the mouth because you don't need the CPAP? What do you think about it? Maybe she is inventing a good one to convince family she doesn't need the CPAP

Has the Dr of somebody here ever told such a thing ? I hope that Dr will prescribe her a sleep test before concluding she doesn't need the CPAP.

Rosie

rosacer wrote:Let's believe in some cases a considerable weight loss makes people not to need anymore the CPAP, OK? Here it goes.

A friend of mine told me her cousin's doctor told her the following:

When you don't need the CPAP anymore while sleeping on your side and you start opening the mouth, the saliva is going into your ear that is a sign you maybe don't need a CPAP anymore.

This sounds very hard to believe, why would you open the mouth because you don't need the CPAP? What do you think about it? Maybe she is inventing a good one to convince family she doesn't need the CPAP

Has the Dr of somebody here ever told such a thing ? I hope that Dr will prescribe her a sleep test before concluding she doesn't need the CPAP.

Rosie

Someone is spinning a line of B.S. That's the best one I've heard yet

voodoo?

What ???!

Sounds like a load of malarky to me.

What state is responsible for licensing this obvious incompetent?
(if the doctor indeed said this)

Well ... The saliva running into your ear is only part of it, the important part (which was left out) is the saliva runs into the ear canal, and rinses out the void brain cavity, on its way out the other ear!

chunkyfrog wrote:…(if the doctor indeed said this)

Very astute qualification, to be fair.

Note that the message comes through the poster's friend's cousin's doctor.

None of us know whether or not the doctor said this.

Just as we have doctors that don't listen, we also have patients that don't listen or "hear what they want to hear."

Yes it is possible the doctor actually said this. It is equally possible that this is what the cousin wanted to hear, or invented, perhaps because he or she doesn't want to use their CPAP anymore.

Nate

There are skinny people with Apnea. It is more likely that Apnea helps to drive weight gain rather than overweight causes Apnea. While I think having a normal body weight is great, and a good goal. One is not less likely to lose weight while on xPAP treatment than lose weight while having successful treatment. To me, after one is diagnosed, the only way for me to be convinced that I do not need treatment, is to have an overnight sleep study that concludes I no longer need a machine.

Many of use are concurrently Diabetics, or have metabolic syndrome that is the beginning of Diabetes. Losing weight while having Diabetes of Metabolic syndrome is extremely difficult.

Not totally surprisingly, doctors are as prone to irrational thinking as anyone else. They just have more schooling than many.

rosacer wrote:When you don't need the CPAP anymore while sleeping on your side and you start opening the mouth, the saliva is going into your ear that is a sign you maybe don't need a CPAP anymore.

Well, if you open your mouth while sleeping on your side, and if saliva comes out, it should roll toward your ear if you have a thin cheek. If you have a large, puffy cheek, it might drift toward your chin. OK, having reasoned this through, I can say that this test is no better than standing on a scale to determine whether you still need CPAP (or a drool bib).

NateS wrote:

chunkyfrog wrote:…(if the doctor indeed said this)

Very astute qualification, to be fair.

Note that the message comes through the poster's friend's cousin's doctor.

None of us know whether or not the doctor said this.

Just as we have doctors that don't listen, we also have patients that don't listen or "hear what they want to hear."

Yes it is possible the doctor actually said this. It is equally possible that this is what the cousin wanted to hear, or invented, perhaps because he or she doesn't want to use their CPAP anymore.
Nate

Well of course the patient is going to have problems hearing the Dr right! All that saliva runing in the ear is bound to mess up ones hearing!
But if the Dr actually said that I would be really worried about going to see them for other illnesses. For example if someone sudenly slumped over and crashed their car the blood gushing from a 6 inch gash on one's head indicates that the heart is functional thus no heart disease… and no need to check if a heart attack could have caused the the crash…
Ok a bit dramatic, I know… I'm a little crazy today.