Trucking companies target sleep apnea

Discussion in 'Driver Health' started by Cybergal, Jul 15, 2007.

  1. VULCAN1999

    VULCAN1999 World's #1 Grandpa

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    I didn't know I had it until tested. I never snored just kept waking up in the night and wife said I made puffing noises. I stopped breathing 90 times in 6 1/2 hours and several times for more then a minute. You will basically wake up each time you stop breathing because your body is screaming for oxygen or at least you hope you wake up, most of the time you don't even know you wake up. I'm on a high PSI to keep my heart rate up also because it drops low at night due to HBP meds.

    Good luck and don't play around with this, you can literally take years off your life by going untreated.
     
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  3. ddog

    ddog Light Load Member

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    Never really saw anything a doctor could do couldn't be done better by the prime source candidate, yourself. It is basically a sensitivity analysis between limits you will ultimately determine yourself. There will be a sensitive end of the feasible range you will increment settings towards until satisfactory.

    YOU ARE THE ULTIMATE SENSOR AND WILL CHANGE SETTINGS ACCORDING TO YOU ANYWAY. No use spending thousands of dollars having those conmen 'tell you' what your body is 'saying': no one knows better than yourself. You start from better than unassisted and keep incrementing pressure settings until you sleep sound throughout the night. ITS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE. Oxygen is life. Between cow steroids (milk byproducts) and cornsyrup put in most all of our processed foods, this is one of USA's unfavorable byproducts, along with high rates of cancer, that we must adapt to live longer. Cancer can be assisted by flushing ourselves with herbs, but is a delicate scheduling routine of water, food, vitamins, herbs, and exercise since water/exercise taken less than one hour/two hours before or after food intake will not let you digest your food. And herbs will cleanse vitamins/food nourishment, but is essential in transporting unused food out of your waste factory organs (colon specifically).

    Sleep Apnea, lol, is just our breathing parts are too fat to function with unnatural growths inside of us. My mother (both of us were 10 lb babies) had nasal flem cut out of her in surgery, just to grow back rapidly. These machines should be like alarm clocks for most (fat or large) Americans. If you feel compelled to have doctors tell you what your body is requesting, then you may not mind paying $45 for them to tell you that you need vitamin C every time you buy this vitamin: not much difference except a one time adjustment, like learning how to tell time and setting your alarm/time on the clock.

    From what I've seen, the humidified apnea machines are the 'evolved' design which is not a lot of innovation for the time and funds ripped off of 'patients' in this fat cow industry. And now that China is making everything, we will pay more for them just to have them break down with inferior materials and cause undue brain damage. So it might be worth finding an older used one that can be converted to humidified unit.

    My dental surgeon has similar devices for breathing and/or happy gas. I never breath so well, as when I go to get anything dental work done. Shoot, get a tank of happy gas and put on your apnea machines :biggrin_25517:
     
  4. NCstroker

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    I would advise you gain more knowledge of the subject. So you think you could dial in a CPAP machine yourself? Like I said, the wrong pressure from a CPAP machine and it will NOT be effective. That means you will still have episodes of apnea. Guess what!!!! If you don't know if you have sleep apnea or how bad, HOW WILL YOU KNOW IF YOU ARE STILL HAVING EPISODES OF APNEA?!?!?! Thats the whole purpose of a sleep study.

    BTW, Sleep apnea is not just an affliction for fat people. You are so anti-doctor Im suprised you admit to going to the dentist. I would imagine somebody with your theories would just advise to brush your teeth and not eat sweets.
     
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