Just wondering...  It seems that everyone I know that has had a sleep study, just had to have the machine.  Is this just a scam to help the home health equipment ppl make money and the doctors make money?  Or do those machines really help folks?
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A few years ago I start an affair with a lady who told me that if with to keep sleeping with her a needed to do something about my sleep apnea.  At the time she was working as a lawyer, but previous she had been a nurse.  Anyhow, long story, short, I feel getting the the test and the machine, save my life.
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CPAP is Continuous Positive Airway Pressure machine is a device that delivers air at a constant elevated pressure to your airways usually during hours of sleep.It usually uses face masks or nasal prongs to deliver the air.\nThe most usual need for this is for a person who has OSA or obstructive sleep apnea\nHow does it work- well people with sleep apnea particularly the type that results from obesity loose airway muscle tone in deep sleep and this causes the airways to shut down and the oxygen saturaton in the blood to drop dangerously... the CPAP machine allows increased air pressure to be delivered to prevent these episodes.\n\nParameters? The settings are decided by an MD certified in sleep medicine (usually a pulmonologist or a neurologist) during a CPAP titration study.It takes into consideration several issues ...how you tolerate different masks..if you need supplimental Oxygen or not etc.  It is a very specialised field and you should follow recommendations form your sleep MD.
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I am a personal trainer and research supplements all the time.  I think you'll be hard-pressed to find any success stories from using it by itself.  I know of no one that has had success taking it.  Don't waste your money.
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No it's a scam.  Magnets do nothing for pain.  Waste of money.  The person is selling the mattress because THEY found out after buying it that it didn't work.
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I feel for your friend- But,I have the same problem.I'm a 37yr.old female.And I have Insomnia really bad.I've had a sleep study done.But,nothing I've tried has helped.I've tried- Reading,Simply Sleep,Tylenol P.M.,Ambien,Lunesta,and even a natural med from the pharmacy.Nothing has helped me yet.Sometimes I'm up for 2-days straight.It sucks.So,If you find out something please let me know if you don't mind.My E-Mail is: jac9blond@yahoo.com I wish i could help.
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I think this is one of those "no news is good news" kind of things.  As a fellow sufferer, I know that the pressure setting on your CPAP was prescribed by your doctor based on the resuslts of your sleep lab experience.  As long as the machine is providing the desired results (no snoring or apnea), then I'm pretty sure nothing else need be done.  Obviously, you need to maintain the filters--clean or replace, as the case may be.
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Well i work for a company who specializes in people who have Sleep Apnea. Some of the symptoms are not being able to breath at night. All of our patient state that they stop breathing. They experience Daytime Sleepiness. Feel tired and sleepy all the time. Patient with Sleep Apnea experience difficult concentrating,overweight,heavy snoring,gasping for air. Also waking up tired. Some even fall asleep while they are driving. You should really see a Dr for this. This is very serious you need to take care of it. Their is a machine that helps you it is called a Cpap machine. Your Dr should help you with having them do a payment plan. He will probably send you to do a Sleep Study test. They do two studies, one called a Cpap titration and a polysomnography. The first night they will put you on a Cpap machine and then the next night you will be off of it. That way they can determine how bad your Sleep Apnea is.
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OMgosh..yes. It's awesome...We bought one about 3 months ago and I swear by it. I work as a nurse and when I come home with a sore back, I make the bed firmer to support my back. On regular days, I put it back to my regular setting. How can you do that with a normal bed?? You can't. I used to sleep on the couch when my back was hurting from work....because my old bed wasn't firm enough on the days I needed it to be.\n\nIt's an expensive bed, but it's worth it!
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That's the story of the financial racket. \nBut it gives them big bonuses.\nOn the up-side you sleep a lot better than if it was stashed under your mattress, lumpy.\nShop around.
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I work in a clinic that has a DRX9000.  I have also been treated using the DRX9000.  My take on the DRX9000 is that it is a very good tool to help treat disc injuries.  But, it is just a tool.  These machines are becoming quite popular, and rightfully so.  However, opening a clinic and buying the machine does not make you an expert at treating back pain.  If you are a twenty something in good physical shape with no previous episodes of back pain and have a single disc herniation, then the DRX9000 will probably work great as the only treatment necessary.  Unfortunately, this is rarely the case...at least in the patients I see.  Most patients have had bad pain for months or years.  These patients develop chronic muscle imbalances in the pelvis, sacro-illiac problems, and even secondary neck pain and stiffness.  Our clinic integrates MD's, PTs, and DCs to treat these conditions in addition to the DRX machine.  \n\nThe bottom line is that when used appropriately in combination with other appropriate treatments, the DRX9000 is very effective.  I was treated for a disc herniation at C5.  It has been two years since I was last treated and have had no return of symptoms.  \n\nThe peer reviewed research on the DRX9000 is very scarce.  I have no reason not to be honest with you, so I hope this helps.
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First thing I have sleep apnea and it is simply treated with a device called a CPAP !\n\nNOW !!!   Sleep apnea simply means stopping breathing more than so many times, for a specific length of time, during a given period of time.\n\nWe go to sleep but never  go into what is called REM sleep where our brain really gets its rest! For probably the past 40+ years I  was not truly sleeping! I denied that I had a problem, I really wasn't tired. But, my wife finally convinced me. She deserves a gold Star, Probably a Congressional Medal of Honor! I am a Hard Headed 61 year-old I'm afraid that I was extremely hard on her! She no doubt has saved my life and no words will ever be able to thank her enough. After all I WAS ASLEEP. ALL WAS OK AS FAR AS I WAS CONCERNED!!! How do I know what quality sleep I encounter, when I am asleep!\n\nIn the "usual" cases apnea is caused by blockage of the airway. This blockage is caused frequently by the collapse of the airway thus a positive air pressure is applied to "inflate" this airway. A Constant Pressure Air device CPAP is prescribed. It will furnish air at a specific pressure measured in inches of water that will be / or has been prescribed from the sleep lab session. The pressure in inches of water, where your brain goes into REM (for rapid eye movement) pattern on the EKG. This is the ideal pressure!\n\nThey will set up the machine for you. Don't worry it will all go smooth. I promise that soon you will get use to the CPAP machine PROBABLY even love it! If you live up North, you can always bundle yourself underneath tons of blankets and breath. Kinda like breathing underwater!\n\nThis will be a good adventure for you! You will feel better overall I promise regardless of any other conditions that you might have!  \n\nMain thing is that you do go to a SLEEP CLINIC FOR A EVALUATION!\n\nNOT TO BE UGLY BUT MY "PND" STANDS FOR POST NASAL DRIP!\n\nI DO HAVE SOME INITIALS THOUGH .... "RLS" FOR RESTLESS LEG SYNDROME IT DISTURBS YOUR REM SLEEP ALSO JUST LIKE SLEEP APNEA DOES AND KEEPS YOU FROM GETTING QUALITY SLEEP!\n\nSLEEP APNEA CAN RARELY CAUSE DEATH!\n\nPLEASE SEE A DOCTOR!!!!!!!!!!\n\nAPS
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I hope you have not been waiting for this long. Don't adjust the pressure yourself- do you use for sleep apnea..?\nCall the home health people and tell them to come and sort it out right now.
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Hi again Sam, \n\nWell, I would have to say I have been suffering from Insomnia from the time I became an answerholic, but seriously, I don't think counting something to get 'sleep' is a good idea. Yesterday, as soon as I read your question, I tried it, and when I didn't meet with any luck, came back here to tell you. *giggles*\n\nBut yeah, you can try counting things if you are mad at someone or something...may sound lame, but it will take your mind off it for a while...I personally never tried it, but I had  a friend in school...she used to sit next to me in class, and in the middle of Social period, she used to count numbers...at first I didn't understand why...but later I came to know that she was counting numbers because the History lesson was getting on her nerves. *again giggles*  Lame reason to count numbers though, but it worked for her.\n\nSo Sam, I think it depends on the person regarding the output. Bye!!\n\nrule wid style n luv@vinny
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First of all I am 61 years old I have sleep apnea  and until two years ago I did not get any treatment.  So you are very lucky that you will be receiving treatment at a much younger age because I feel so very much better now .  \n\nI thought I was perfectly A OK until sleep apnea was diagnosed in a most unusual manner.... rather dramatic to me!  See I had a real simple operation in a hospital and was under anesthesia when I simply kinda like stopped breathing like they call DEAD LIKE ... thus was discovered formally the fact that I had central sleep apnea!  They like told my wife this and my tail was in a SLEEP LAB within the month for a overnight session where I stopped breathing 20 times while I was in what is called the REM level of sleep.  There are levels of sleep all the body gets sleep but the brain only sleeps on the last level level six called REM for rapid eye movement because our eyes dart around during this time.\n\nIt works like this when our brain takes a brake and goes into this level our body is on automatic.  It is operated by the lower brain stem.  Now if breathing is blocked of or if it stops the carbon dioxide builds up and the oxygen goes away in the blood in the brain!  This triggers the brain to drop out of REM and signal the lungs to gasp for air!  Now if a person was out on drugs or alcohol the brain could not signal the lungs and the person would simply not ever breath and DIE!  Cause of death sleep apnea!  Sleep apnea does not usually wake up a person.  Usually it just wakes up your brain a little bit and you do not normally realize it ever happened!  Most people just get up in the morning and are tired or have headaches or have to have an afternoon nap!  They do not realize what is wrong,  this is how my was!\n\nYou should look in the phone book for a Sleep Clinic rather than a regular doctor!  Your doctor will only send you to one anyway!  They will in an overnight session find the exact thing that is happening!  There is a fancy name it is called a polysomonograph they measure your breathing, brain pattern, pulse, eye movement, leg movement  and they take a movie of you sleeping. That is who you should contact the doctor connected with one of those clinics.  You can go to them without a referal!\n\n\nEverything will be just fine but you do need to go to a Sleep Study\n\nRelax you will be fine I made it for 59 years but they were miserable compaired to how it could of been!\n\nTry to go to a Clinic Directly Please! \n\n\nAPS
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I'd want to know who ran the study and who paid for the study.\n\nI would want to know the number of people taking part in the study.  Of course, it is extremely unlikely that everyone taking part in the study lost 10 pounds.  "Average" implies that some people lost more and some people lost less.  If "average" is the mean average, it could be that a small number of people who lost a lot of weight could have distorted the average.  Knowing the median weight loss might be very revealing.\n\nIt would be good to know how long each person used the machine for and what other exercise were they doing.  Even if the majority did lose 10 pounds a day, it doesn't mean that their 10 pound a day weight loss was caused by the exercise machine.  They might have been dieting.
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I don't think it's legitimate.\nI did the questionnaire. No where does it ask how tall I am, what I weight, my body fat percentage or any "real" information that an actual study would need.  (I did try to enroll in a real study of weight loss at a hospital so I'm familiar with how it works.)\nI wrote down the confirmation number and took the survey again. I used all different answers. The confirmation number was the same.  To me, that's bogus.\nI did a quick search on "dietstudy.com and scam" and found out that when you call they ask for $300 upfront to "enroll" in the study.  No legitimate scientific study asks for money.
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my husband does snore and it seems to have gotten worse over the last year. I had him go to the Dr. for a physical and  the Dr. referred him to a sleep lab where they do whats called a sleep study. Turns out my husband has sleep apnea( this is where he actually stops breathing many times a night) scarey huh? He is going back to the sleep lab in May for another study this time they will be using a special type of breathing mask to see if it helps keep the airway from collapsing while he sleeps.