My wife used to jostle me awake at night when I would stop breathing. One day we were driving up I-75 above Atlanta and I was driving. It was a long straight boring road. I had my sunglasses on. I don't remember going to sleep. But she jostled me and told me I started snoring. Pulled over and let her drive the rest of the way home. Went to the doctor soon after that and got a sleep test done. The result - severe obstructive sleep apnea. Tested me one more night to find my CPAP settings. The machine only went up to 20 so that was my setting. After a few months of trying I couldn't do it. They tried a BiPap machine and I still couldn't do it. So finally I had the UP3 surgery on my throat. Tested again and this time my pressure was at 12. Went back to a CPAP and used it for a long time. After taking 2 years to get used to it I finally could use it. And I got to where I couldn't sleep without it. Still can't sleep without it. A few years ago I went into the hospital with severe breathing problems. Seems my lungs were not exhaling the CO2 and it was building up in my blood stream. The treatment for that is BiPap at high pressures. So I stayed in ICU till they got most of the CO2 out of my system. And they sent me home with a BiPap machine to use at night instead of CPAP. I have been using a BiPap ever since. They set the pressures at 10 and 15 but it couldn't keep up with my deep breathing. So I went to Google and found out how to change the settings. I set it at 12 and 17. I did tell my doctor and he didn't complain about it. I tried the nose mask at first but my mouth dropped open. So I switched to the face mask that covers mouth and nose. My mouth still dropped open. I tried a chin strap. Too uncomfortable. Now I just use a short piece of very soft cotton rope and tie it around my head and mask using a square knot. It holds my mask tightly to my face and the pressure keeps my mouth shut. No more annoying mask leaks either.
It's been quite a journey, but I can't sleep without it now. I'm on oxygen during the day and at night I just plug the oxygen line up to my BiPAP hose.
My wife also uses a CPAP. For the dry mouth issues we both use a heated humidifier inline with the PAP hoses. Just have to fill it with distilled water every night.
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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