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Nasal sleep endosocopy
I have recently had a small operation for the above.
It involves a small camera going up the nose and then you are sent to sleep.
When you have an Apnea the camera picks up what is causing it.
I returned this week as an out patient and was told that my tounge, soft palate and fat in the throat was the cause.
The consultant said that he operates on a very few patients that he feels sure would benefit but I am not one of them.
He was very fair and said by operating it could help me but I would still need to use a c/pap
and therefore he would not operate.
He also said he felt the throat would be halped by me loosing weight and I said I have tried so hard but find it very difficult.
He said people with osa find it 5 times harder to loose weight.
I asked as my ahi was good and I always use my c/pap would that not reverse that.and he said something about the taste recepter in the throat could have been damaged by the osa and that would stop me loosing weight.
He said I go to many top meeting on this and nobody knows the reason for certain.
I am now on a very very strict diet and going to the gym 6 days per week.
I will not be beat I will get rid on the c/pap!!
Regards Joe
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Permalink Reply by symmit on
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Hi Joe - let me reply to a few points, I've been using CPAP for nearly two years...
I do not like waking up and having to fumble around looking for buttons to turn the m/c off.
One of my machines has auto start and stop, the other doesn't but drops the airflow very quickly if it detects the mask is removed. You may want to try a different machine if you can.
I do not like sleeping in separate beds and i feel i need to as I would not subject my wife to having air blown in her face all night even though she says that she would tolerate it for me.
Mine prefers me to have the machine than not. I sleep quieter, my health and attitude is better, no snoring, no sudden awakening and panic attacks. For a while she didn't like the look, now she's fully sold on the idea.
Sleepweaver, and many other masks, diffuse the air very well,stopping the problem.
I do not like fiddling around putting masks etc back after I take them off to get a
drink of water in the night.
That is a bit of a pain, but I can switch off the machine, grab the glass, drink the water and get it back on without removing the sleepweaver, a full face mask is not so easy though...
I do like nodding off in the garden or in my arm chair but if I do an apnea wakes me.
I'm don't seem to suffer as much if I'm sat up, but also seldom nod off in the day now anyway!
I do not like all the trouble unplugging, packing it, carrying it on a plane and replugging in the hotel.
Again, a bit of a pain (and I'm not avoiding a usual trip of mine as there's no guaranteed power and the hotel rooms are never secure) but necessary, and airlines seem fine with it.
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Permalink Reply by Joe barnes on
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Hi Joe - let me reply to a few points, I've been using CPAP for nearly two years...
I have been using my a/pap for 3 years
I do not like waking up and having to fumble around looking for buttons to turn the m/c off.
One of my machines has auto start and stop, the other doesn't but drops the airflow very quickly if it detects the mask is removed. You may want to try a different machine if you can.
To stop it I have to hit the button which is easy when you are fully awake, when you laying on your side and just woken it is something I could do without.
I could just take the mask of and after several minutes it would stop but I would not want to wake my wife in the night with the loud blowing noise it would create.
The a/pap is supplied and maintained by my hospital and do not see any reason to change this.I do not like sleeping in separate beds and i feel i need to as I would not subject my wife to having air blown in her face all night even though she says that she would tolerate it for me.
Mine prefers me to have the machine than not. I sleep quieter, my health and attitude is better, no snoring, no sudden awakening and panic attacks. For a while she didn't like the look, now she's fully sold on the idea.
So does mine and it does not worry her in the slightest.
What I said was the blowing is not a very nice thing to subject anyone to let alone someone that i love so I sleep in separate beds
Sleepweaver, and many other masks, diffuse the air very well,stopping the problem.
I change my mask 4 times a year f o c and so will stay with the resmed full face mask.I do not like fiddling around putting masks etc back after I take them off to get a
drink of water in the night.That is a bit of a pain, but I can switch off the machine, grab the glass, drink the water and get it back on without removing the sleepweaver, a full face mask is not so easy though...
I do like nodding off in the garden or in my arm chair but if I do an apnea wakes me.
I'm don't seem to suffer as much if I'm sat up, but also seldom nod off in the day now anyway!
I do not like all the trouble unplugging, packing it, carrying it on a plane and replugging in the hotel.Again, a bit of a pain (and I'm not avoiding a usual trip of mine as there's no guaranteed power and the hotel rooms are never secure) but necessary, and airlines seem fine with
To summarize. We both like enjoy all the benefits from using an a/pap but do not enjoy the downsides as previously mentioned.
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