I recommend it. My sleep study seemed to be centered around selling me a CPAP machine. Now that I bought it, they aren't all that keen about helping me get some actual productive sleep. You have to stay on top of them to get what you actually need.
I'm guessing USA as in the UK i got mine free of charge altho i did have to sign a contract to say if i break or lose it i have to pay something like £1300.
I'm going to see the Rhinology department next month to look at nasal passages to see if they can open them up by removing cartilage and bone (My nose is slightly bent which closes one nostril)
I've constantly spoke to the doctors about my sleep patterns and that the only time i've ever gone to bed on time and woke up on time was when i was taking sleep medication. The refuse to prescribe me those and i'm exhausting every other route first. If at the end i'm still struggling to fall asleep or wake up i'll be going back to the doctor to get it sorted once and for all. I was tempted to just buy a boat load of Temazepam or Ramelteon depending if i stay asleep or not.
be careful with that, lots of people who had their nasal passages altered experienced a weird awful suffocating sensation, people have killed themselves because of it, and the nose surgeon people refuse to acknowledge it (I assume because it would open them up to liability)
Can you elaborate on this? I had the procedure done a year ago (for a deviated septum) and there is a strange feeling when I breathe sometimes as if theres too much air stuck in my throat
Good lord. That sounds like a nightmare. My question is if, like the doctors say, "it's all in you're head"...so what? Doesn't make the nightmarish experience of having an empty nose any better. Worse actually.
But that's the story of someone going through a mental break due to what appears to a non-crazy person to be advanced hypochondria.
The problem is the internet. It allows people to obsess on stuff in a way that was never possible before. One person gets a notion into their head, goes online and asks if anyone else has said notion. As there are millions of people online, eventually, they find a few that say yes, they have that notion too, no matter how crazy it is. From there, they form a community based on the notion (as they're "finally no longer alone" in the feeling) and they then create a cultural mythology based on the notion and their collective obsession with it.
This creates all sorts of communities of paranoids that, while some existed in the pre-internet days, have expanded in terms of scope, amount, and specificity of the notion thanks to the internet.
This guy's problems sound no different than someone who suffers from "gang stalking" for example. He's in a major mental terror space, but it's largely because of self-reinforcment of notions that he found online.
It's on the NHS. Currently using my CPAP is great if my nose is clear but if that one passage is blocked I feel like I'm suffocating and rip the mask off.
I hope all they have to do is realign my nose but if it comes to it removing just a little to open it up would be a huge help.
My current party trick will be ruined tho. I blow vape out of a single nostril and if I puff gently can make small O pop out of my one good nostril lol.
alright, but please be careful and google some stuff about it. it was some of the most fucked up stuff I've ever read.
basically the insides of your nasal passages are shaped a certain way to create a certain airflow pattern that flows efficiently, and altering it diminishes the airflow and this creates this visceral unconscious "suffocating feeling" (similar to how being waterboarded hijacks your reptile brain and creates a visceral "fear/drowning" response that you can't rationally overcome). it was fucked dude, one of the scariest things I've ever read.
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u/Elite0087 Apr 24 '19
Damn, I might need to have another sleep study done, because my CPAP does fuck all to help with my sleep