INSPIRE FOR SLEEP APNEA

What's up with that? I don't know anything about it, except the commercials all throwing their cpap in the trash are impressive! Can this be a real alternative to CPAP for some people? Thanks much and sweet dreams!

Search it. There's plenty info available.

I am looking for good information. I have not found much about it on this forum.

This is a CPAP forum.
Sorry we cannot truthfully provide the rosy picture painted by their marketing department.
When the subject comes up, we see things like expensive, invasive, irreversible,
not covered by insurance, and not safe with MRI.
I have been using cpap for thirteen years with great results.
I see you probably have been pappin' even longer than I.

The Inspire procedure isn't something that everyone will qualify for. There are certain specific requirements a person has to meet.

Some testing is needed. I had a friend who wanted to try it but she didn't qualify. Something about where her obstructions were. I never fully understood it all.

If interested you need to talk to your doctor and get the referral started.

I don't know of any forum member here who has had it done and was successful.
This is a cpap use help forum after all. No reason for someone who had the procedure done to hang out here.

Georgio wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 15, 2023 3:30 pm

What's up with that? I don't know anything about it, except the commercials all throwing their cpap in the trash are impressive! Can this be a real alternative to CPAP for some people? Thanks much and sweet dreams!

don't want to jump on the negative band wagon, but you DO realize it's elective surgery, right?

not for me. but if you decide to have it, please come back and tell us how it went.

Georgio wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 15, 2023 3:30 pm

all throwing their cpap in the trash are impressive!

REAL medical advances don't have to use such shitty, schlocky advertising.

Proceed with caution - viewtopic/t186877/Inspire-Review-by-Wall-Street.html

"Hypoglossal nerve stimulation . . . is an effective and evolving second-line therapy for OSA . . . for patients with moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnea who are intolerant to positive airway pressure therapy. . . . There exist uncertainties regarding proper patient selection, surgical technique, and the reporting of outcomes and individual factors that impact therapy effectiveness. According to current guidelines, this therapy is indicated for select patients."--Published Online: December 1, 2021. https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.9542

Key words and phrases for me are "evolving," "second-line," 'intolerant to PAP,' "uncertainties," and "select patients."

Personally, I am glad that there are a variety of options out there for patients who cannot, or will not, make a success of PAP, the first-line gold standard for successful treatment of OSA.

chunkyfrog wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 15, 2023 4:29 pm

not safe with MRI.

In the article I quoted above:

"Though the first-generation Inspire HGNS device on the market was not magnetic resonance imaging-compatible, the second-generation device is conditionally approved for magnetic resonance imaging scans of the head and extremities with a 1.5-Tesla magnet."

lazarus wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 15, 2023 6:55 pm

chunkyfrog wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 15, 2023 4:29 pm

not safe with MRI.

In the article I quoted above:

"Though the first-generation Inspire HGNS device on the market was not magnetic resonance imaging-compatible, the second-generation device is conditionally approved for magnetic resonance imaging scans of the head and extremities with a 1.5-Tesla magnet."

oh, good! it's "conditionally approved".

why, i feel better already.

zonker wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 15, 2023 7:08 pm

oh, good! it's "conditionally approved".

why, i feel better already.

Just be sure to read the manual before you try it at home, kids:

"In the United States, if your patient has Inspire Model 3028, they are eligible for full body MRI scans provided specific guidelines are followed.

"Click here to view the MRI Guidelines for Inspire Therapy manual"
--https://professionals.inspiresleep.com/mri-info/

lazarus wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 15, 2023 7:15 pm

zonker wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 15, 2023 7:08 pm

oh, good! it's "conditionally approved".

why, i feel better already.

Just be sure to read the manual before you try it home, kids:

"In the United States, if your patient has Inspire Model 3028, they are eligible for full body MRI scans provided specific guidelines are followed.

"Click here to view the MRI Guidelines for Inspire Therapy manual"
--https://professionals.inspiresleep.com/mri-info/

There was a ton of marketing in my area. Anything medical that is mass marketed gives me pause. I read reviews on other forums and would never, ever have this device implanted in my body and have small jolts to my tongue region when having an apnea event. Just ewwww!! That is just too creepy for this girl.

Just remember that, as a general rule of thumb, any non-PAP treatment for OSA tends to get filed by researchers under "success" if about half the people who use it reduce their problem by about 50%.

That doesn't make the alternative treatments totally worthless. But that doesn't make them comparable to optimized PAP therapy either. Honest researchers try to be up-front about all of that in published material. Yet the marketing people producing the ads very often try to make up for their products' limitations by trying to find ways to attack what actually works best.

Shitty, schlocky advertising--reminds me of SoClean.