My wife says I'm weird because I like using the CPAP

[loggerhead12]

My favorite part of the day is hooking up, breathing deep, and dropping off to sleep.

[CountingSheep]

Tell her about your morning wood events... see if she perks up.

[palerider]

So I started using the machine a week ago. It didn't count my first two nights for some reason. I have used it for the full night since the beginning.

I told my wife I like using the machine, that the air pressure feels good. She told me I'm weird. Note that she is an RN with decades of experience.

Just proving that medical people with decades of experience know everything.

[thecoast]

Just proving that medical people with decades of experience are frequently full of ****.

I don't know why I don't learn my lesson. Why do I get on any forum knowing full well that someone is INEVITABLY going to ruin the positive social potential with vulgarity and, to boot, vulgarity about my wife?! Crude thoughtlessness.

To almost everybody else, thanks for the brief but mostly positive experience.

[ChicagoGranny]

I also find it pleasant. Especially when I am very tired upon going to bed. There is a reassuring feeling that I will sleep and breathe well, and wake up to another good day.

[palerider]

Just proving that medical people with decades of experience are frequently full of ****.

I don't know why I don't learn my lesson. Why do I get on any forum knowing full well that someone is INEVITABLY going to ruin the positive social potential with vulgarity and, to boot, vulgarity about my wife?! Crude thoughtlessness.

To almost everybody else, thanks for the brief but mostly positive experience.

There, I fixed it.

[ChicagoGranny]

A fart in church can't be fixed with a smaller fart.

[palerider]

A fart in church can't be fixed with a smaller fart.

Whatever, the guy complains that his wife think's he's WEIRD, then touts her decades of experience... then gets all butthurt when someone points out that we literally hear all the time about "medical professionals" with "decades of experience" that are completely wrong.

Whatever.

[chunkyfrog]

We recover with medical intervention--quite often in spite of it.
Nurses are often saints--but nobody's perfect.
Education is like money; too much can give one an elevated sense of worth.

[Janknitz]

I hated the CPAP at first. It was miserable.

But one morning I woke up slowly feeling peaceful and calm, enjoying the soft flow of cool air. I realized the last time I felt that way waking up was when I was a toddler in my crib (I can remember mornings that far back!). Most of the time I used to wake up like a tightly wound spring, heart fluttering in panic or feelings of anger, and felt like I got no rest. That's when I realized what CPAP could do. I can spend the night without being bathed in stress hormones trying to breathe. Now I wake up feeling like I'm floating on a cloud.

Now, most mornings I hate taking off my CPAP and getting on with my day. I feel so good for those first few moments when I wake up. So if that makes me weird too (actually, there are many OTHER things that make me weird), I'll accept it.

Ignore the people here who can't be polite. It's a reflection on them, not you.

[D.H.]

Here's an interview of Dr. Collin Sullivan, the "inventor" of CPAP (yes, it was invented in 1980; and he's still active). He describes how the first patient wanted to have a CPAP at home, even though he never envisioned this intervention as a long-term solution. He an other early patients were the driving force in causing a household CPAP machine to become commercially available. Remember that the very first CPAP were large, noisy and threw off a lot of heat. In fact they were put in another room and attached by a long hose.

Link to interview ===> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaIS87ojWXQ

[ChicagoGranny]

Remember that the very first CPAP were large, noisy and threw off a lot of heat. In fact they were put in another room and attached by a long hose.

Here's a photo of one of the early models.

early cpap.jpg

[jimbud]

Just proving that medical people with decades of experience are frequently full of ****.

I don't know why I don't learn my lesson. Why do I get on any forum knowing full well that someone is INEVITABLY going to ruin the positive social potential with vulgarity and, to boot, vulgarity about my wife?! Crude thoughtlessness.

To almost everybody else, thanks for the brief but mostly positive experience.

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Activate the Foe Button offended one!

by zonker » Thu Feb 06, 2020 6:36 pm

you can easily "foe" him. click his name, then follow the instructions. make sure to stick around for the 'are you sure?" question. you'll never see his post again unless you click to do so or if someone has quoted him, as you have done here.

makes life a bit easier.

[Becca8104]

I feel Naked without my mask & I also prefer having a full face mask. Nasal masks just were never comfortable or good for me. My quality of sleep is so good now.

[Jas_williams]

Remember that the very first CPAP were large, noisy and threw off a lot of heat. In fact they were put in another room and attached by a long hose.

Here's a photo of one of the early models.


early cpap.jpg

That was the lightweight travel model