How many of them are overweight?
The machine helps... better night’s sleep with the device than without it.
I’m not overweight. But I don’t think I have apnea either.
My cardiologist found a small blip on one morning of a two-week PITA I endured with a portable heart monitor.
So now I have to do a home monitor for sleep apnea, but it is, thankfully, only overnight. In my case, I think this is all a waste of time.
In all my years of attending the Department of Labor’s National Veterans’ Training Institute in Denver, I never saw a student without a sleep apnea machine in their room, including myself.
I’ve never known anyone who used/uses a CPAP machine for sleep apnea who was not morbidly obese or close to it, and most are men. All had been overweight for more than 5 years, and were advised by MD and Naturopathic doc both that unless they got on a strict diet now, their lifespan was going to be notably short-one was even offered a gastric bypass, but refused-none of them lost more than a few pounds before starting to pig out again, even gaining more weight.
Only 2 are still among the living-the others had fatal heart events in their sleep, CPAP and all...
Exactly. That, other co-morbidities, and that compliance with CPAP is not all that great in general are all possible contributors to the results.
Probably a good many at least from what I have seen. I always wondered about those that always say they hope they die in their sleep and then throw this on themselves every night. If this machine stops you from dying in your sleep then you are going to possibly die a much worse death. Always wondered about that.....lol. Yes morbid.
My cousin when in for sleep apnea, doctor had the "lose weight, get in shape" speech waiting.
When he saw his patient was in his early twenties, six two and one hundred and eighty pounds of muscle he decided that another line of treatment would probably be necessary.