LOL @ you guys getting pissed on this thread when neither of you give a s#%t about the other.
I have severe sleep apnea (both obstructive and central). The f'ing CPAP machine was a disaster -- it sounded like a jet engine on my face. Now, it sits, gathering dust.
My question: How can I make home brew yet keep my weight under control? I do aerobics and weight training, 5 or 6 days a week, but I can tell that the beer is impacting the waist line.
Being a Vietnam veteran who spent six months in the Navy Hospital at Camp Pendleton, I've had an intimate, up-close look at military medical care. I mean no offense to those who provide it, because they're good folks and dedicated, but I'll take my current medical insurance and my current 'capitalistic' doctor any day.Just saying that, in a capitalistic medical system, financial incentives cause the patient’s best medical interest to come in direct conflict with the physician’s best financial interest. This is not a theory; it has been proven.
On the other hand, have a look at how the medical system inside the military functions. Doctors are on a fixed salary and they don't make or lose money according to the amount of medicines, machines, or operations they transact or don't transact. They are, additionally, not subjected to tort, so they don't need to do unnecessary stuff just to cover their individual asses against malpractice lawsuits.
I went on a mission to lose weight. And you need to understand that when I go on a mission, I don't try - I do. Over the course of 8 months, I lost 85 pounds and my BMI went down to 23. 5 years later (48 years old now), I am still holding steady. My snoring disappeared entirely, my apnea disappeared entirely, my blood sugar is completely stable, I can ride my mountain bike UP a ski slope in the summer, haven't touched a Cialis in 4 years and my drive is higher than ever before in my life.
But don't listen to me. There's doctors on drug company commissions, machines and medicines waiting to be bought.
Having doctors subjected to a legal system that includes TORT, combined with the idea of insanely high monetary awards, is never in the best health interest of people.
You know what my doctor told me? He said that you're ****ing fat and if you don't lose weight then first you're going to start shooting insulin and you're going to die of a heart attack before you're 50. There were no drugs or machines prescribed. He gave me a mental ass whopping and that was enough.
My girlfriend recently self diagnosed me with sleep apnea, and I was completely unaware that there was anything up. My BMI is about 20 so weight has nothing to do with it in my case. I've come to the conclusion that the only way to heal myself of this is to cut back on cigarettes (I know, gross, time to quit), as well as the beer. Of course we all know how hand in hand these go.
I have severe sleep apnea (both obstructive and central). The f'ing CPAP machine was a disaster -- it sounded like a jet engine on my face. Now, it sits, gathering dust.
My question: How can I make home brew yet keep my weight under control? I do aerobics and weight training, 5 or 6 days a week, but I can tell that the beer is impacting the waist line.
Subbing this... It's comforting to know there are others suffering from this in the homebrew world
Lol...yes....misery loves company.
From my observations, USA people are diagnosed with a hell of a lot of health issues. Given that the gene pool is extremely diverse, this seems more than a bit fishy to me. Probably has a lot to do with lack of sidewalks and bike paths, etc.
You don't let up, do you? Apparently you love negative stereotyping of Americans.Misery loves a good bottle of DOC Ripasso.
From my observations, USA people are diagnosed with a hell of a lot of health issues. Given that the gene pool is extremely diverse, this seems more than a bit fishy to me. Probably has a lot to do with lack of sidewalks and bike paths, etc.
I accidentally fell asleep on the sofa with my mask off last night. Woke up in less than 8 minutes because I'm not used to the sound of my own snoring anymore.
I think I adapted to wearing a nose cup quickly because I worked a job for a couple years that sometimes required me to wear a 1/2 face respirator. Breathing with the two on is remarkably similar. So it was basically getting used to the idea of sleeping with it on.
Here's my question: what do you all do with your hoses? I've left a 1" gap between my mattress and headboard. I run the tube through there if I'm sleeping facing away from my machine.
It's remarkably similar to how my AV wires and brewing hoses are managed (or not managed). Then again, I tend to travel a lot, so there's no value to a preeminent routing.
Here's my question: what do you all do with your hoses? I've left a 1" gap between my mattress and headboard. I run the tube through there if I'm sleeping facing away from my machine.
yep. I'm now at the weight I was when I was 22 ... and I have no apnea anymore, and no acid reflux either. Both of which were a problem previously.
I've been meaning to get to the doctor about my apnea for years; there's no doubt I have it. Years ago when we first got married, my wife told me I would sometime wake her up snoring louder and louder, then suddenly stop breathing for so long it would scare her (I weighed about 140 lbs at the time, which would have been a BMI of 21).
I don't know about being tethered to a hose, though. I tend to flop around all over the bed at night. Of course I suppose there's a possibility that if I were breathing and sleeping better, I might not move as much...
Ok. I'm an actual, real life sleep doctor, and this thread got unexpectedly heated. Wow.
Anyway, I'm seeing a lot of posters state they're not that overweight, they still have it, and they're baffled.
This is because it's not really the BMI. It's the neck circumference (size). The bigger the neck, the higher the chance you have sleep apnea.
It's more complicated than that, but that's a key metric in the Sleep Apnea Clinical Score, which I use everyday to risk stratify my patients. I've seen patients with a BMI of 50, but tiny necks, and no sleep apnea on the sleep study. Likewise, I just read a study of a guy today who had a BMI of 28, and an AHI of 35 (severe).
As for comments about the health system: sleep was a gold mine for a long time, but 1) docs didn't get any extra money from prescribing CPAP, just running the tests 2) Medicare slashed reimbursement for all sleep medicine a while ago, and it's hard to get new docs to specialize in Sleep Medicine.
I almost ALWAYS recommend CPAP. I work for a public system and everytime I prescribe CPAP, the system eats the cost. So, I'm actually at a disincentive to prescribe it. But I do, all the time. Why?
Because anything other than CPAP, including weight loss, is unlikely to do much to anyone with severe sleep apnea, which is the vast majority of my patients. If you have mild or moderate OSA, weight loss or the other doohickeys mentioned in the thread may work.
How is that? The research has borne it out. Study in JAMA in 2012 indirectly answered the question, "Will weight loss make my sleep apnea better?"
The answer: it's complicated. If you lose 25% of your total body weight, you can drop your AHI by 50% (further weight loss will not result in your AHI dropping more). So, if you have an AHI of 60, and you lose 25% of your body weight, you now can hope to have an AHI of 30.
Congratulations! You've gone from having severe sleep apnea to having severe sleep apnea. Weight loss can improve many things, but not always sleep apnea.
I have a feeling if I start answering individual questions I may never see my kids again, so I'll try to keep my comments limited to this post.
One last though: try to love your CPAP, but if you don't, I understand.
What do you do for distilled water for the humidifier when you are on the road? the few overnight trips I take, I've been using hotel tap water because I don't want to pack a gallon of distilled around with me for a day.
Im not sure what I'm going to do next year when I'm out and about for a week at a time.
If you're being good, hotel water at night, then dump in the morning when you get up, and run it with the heater on until dry. I'm not good about this, and my reservoir gets crystalline deposits (which hide corrosion) and is pretty much shot by the time 6 months comes around. I've been thinking about doing a PBW and star san on a weekly basis, but I'm not sure it's a good idea.
One last though: try to love your CPAP, but if you don't, I understand.
You shouldn't need a generator, just a deep cycle battery, a small inverter, an a way to charge/recharge the battery. You'd want them at home if the power goes out anyway. If you use lower pressures you might even be able to run directly off the battery.I bought a generator so I can run my machine while I'm in the woods elk hunting.
You shouldn't need a generator, just a deep cycle battery, a small inverter, an a way to charge/recharge the battery. You'd want them at home if the power goes out anyway. If you use lower pressures you might even be able to run directly off the battery.
That may be the way to go actually. Where would I get an inverter?
You shouldn't need a generator, just a deep cycle battery, a small inverter, an a way to charge/recharge the battery. You'd want them at home if the power goes out anyway. If you use lower pressures you might even be able to run directly off the battery.
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