Sleep Apnea and sleeping on a plane

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Jerseyguy
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Sleep Apnea and sleeping on a plane

Post by Jerseyguy » Mon Apr 15, 2019 10:52 pm

I was looking at finding flights for my parents from NYC to Hawaii and I noticed if I was going it would have be a very long day for me as I couldn't really sleep on the flight. Has any one ever used there CPAP on a plane before?? I would assume that one would have to have a battery for it as I don't think even if the plane had power at the seats it could provide that kind of high power output.

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Re: Sleep Apnea and sleeping on a plane

Post by kteague » Tue Apr 16, 2019 4:59 am

I'll let those who have used their CPAP while flying respond to that. If you find out you can't use it, you might want to experiment a bit before your trip and see if sleeping upright with a cervical collar to keep your neck aligned allows you to at least doze without snoring or obvious distress. (If you can sleep sitting up that is.) Everybody's different.

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