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Permalink Reply by bonesigh on May 12, 2009 at 8:40am

Wow. That's awful. Sure hope this guy gets some help! Wish I could get my husband (kind of looks like this guy) to wear his mask all the time. He only wears it sometimes. My husband only visually stops breathing occasionally. Sheesh, gets mad at me when I bug him about it.

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Permalink Reply by donnalyn on May 12, 2009 at 12:04pm

well this is almost frightening!! really... omg.... i guess we all don't realize this may be happening to any one of us during our "sleep".. i believe now that this may be the reason for so many different ailments and conditions we end up with...lack of air and proper sleep.....
sad to know we are not really aware , unless we go for a sleep study..

i am so glad i did.
i went for the cpap part of the study the other night. it did help.. although uncomfortable for now.,(until all is adjusted for me),it did assist in giving me more air into my body as i slept.,
i don't know if it is a "cure all"... however., it does help somewhat... so., i decided to continue with the entire program and see which mask is good for me., and use it every single night... thanks donna lyn

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Permalink Reply by Barbara on May 12, 2009 at 3:02pm

OMG
Painful to watch to say the least.
Frightening. I hope he's still alive and not in a ditch on side of highway somewhere.
Poor guy.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Wilhite on May 12, 2009 at 4:20pm

Geez, if seeing this doesn't motivate this guy to get help, I don't know what will. He looks like a fish out of water half the time.

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Permalink Reply by amott1973 on May 12, 2009 at 10:57pm

Ugh, that is so hard to see. And that's exactly how my mom is. And I can't get her to wear her mask every night! I'm sending her this video link right now!

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Permalink Reply by Scott Wilkinson's wife Linda on May 13, 2009 at 5:14am

Hi All;

This video is too painful to watch, as soon as Scott (My Husband) stops breathing I'm wide
awake.
The first time I noticed Scott's breathing changed (stopped) I woke right up from a very sound "medicated"
sleep & tried to get him to shift so's he wouldn't stop breathing again.
It's just to freaky to know he's not breathing, I've even gone as far as to just sit on the floor next to him in bed & watch his chest move up & down.
Is that sad or what?
I don't try & wake him up any-more though he's to dam grumpy when I do....lol
I used to hate going to sleep "after" Scott because of his loud snoring as well, now, I'm
grateful for it & when I don't hear it I panic.

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Permalink Reply by Scott Wilkinson's wife Linda on May 13, 2009 at 5:21am

I've already told him (Scott) that if he dies I'm brining him back just so "I" can kill him my-self..lol
He knows how much it scares me & I think that it just may be sinking into his head how
serious a situation this really is. God I hope so.
So if you hear of any zombies walking or running around you'll know I'm kicking his back side.

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Permalink Reply by RockRpsgt on May 13, 2009 at 5:26am

The good part about it is you know you have a chance to help them In a lab. What makes this video so hard to watch is there is nothing I can do about it. Sleep is very rewarding job. This site is proof that what I do matters.

j n k said:

And THAT boys and girls, is why I don't have what it takes to be a sleep tech! Imagine seeing something similar in a LAB night after night! It must be like watching people drown every night. In a perfect world, if a guy was doing that at a diagnostic, a tech would have the authority after a few minutes of that to go pull off the flow lines and slap a mask on the poor guy and start titrating him. The only reason it doesn't work that way, in my opinion, is insurance. Hopefully the guy got to a lab/center soon.

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Permalink Reply by Duane McDade on May 13, 2009 at 6:33am

I see this about three times a week, but when it's that bad it only last for two hours or so. A wheel that squeaks that loud gets fixed. It's fun to fix Apnea patients. Some of you users were that bad you just didn't know. If your AHI was 50 to 100 you displayed some of this.

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Permalink Reply by Mike on May 13, 2009 at 5:27pm

hard to read about your husband Scott. Can you sit him down in front of the computer and show him this video? would it help?

Scott Wilkinson's wife Linda said:

Hi All;

This video is too painful to watch, as soon as Scott (My Husband) stops breathing I'm wide
awake.
The first time I noticed Scott's breathing changed (stopped) I woke right up from a very sound "medicated"
sleep & tried to get him to shift so's he wouldn't stop breathing again.
It's just to freaky to know he's not breathing, I've even gone as far as to just sit on the floor next to him in bed & watch his chest move up & down.
Is that sad or what?
I don't try & wake him up any-more though he's to dam grumpy when I do....lol
I used to hate going to sleep "after" Scott because of his loud snoring as well, now, I'm
grateful for it & when I don't hear it I panic.

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Permalink Reply by Mary Z on January 19, 2010 at 12:31pm

I just read an ad for "My Snoring Solution". This is a $90.00 strap that looks something like a chin lift strap for mouth breathers on a nasal mask. The way I read it they connect it to the chin lift jaw thrust method of opening the airway. I was wondering if wearing a similarly designed chin strap while on cpap FFM would improve AHI. I doesn't seem like it would because those folks who use a chin strap don't post "Wow, my AHI is 0" (I don't think they do).

This stuff is marketed so convincingly that I almost want to buy one and try it with my BPAP and see if my AHI magically falls to "0". I think there would be air leakage problems trying to get a mask seal over the strap, though. Also, my Mirage Quattro FFM does seem to lift my chin and keep my mouth closed for the most part and I'm still titrating and waiting to get my AI consistently under 5.
WOW, they do a good job of selling this strap. Hard to see why it costs so much though.
After taking a better look at the strap it doesn't look as if it would cause mask sealing problems. Maybe a homemade job out of panty hose would work as well. Any thoughts on this?

Mary Z.
https://snoringsolutionsite.com/default007.aspx?aid=NBL&sub-id=...

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Permalink Reply by Mike on January 20, 2010 at 11:03am

i don't think there's a connection between wearing this and lowering your AHI -- a chin strap can help with mouth breathing and leaks caused by mouth breathing, but there is no benefit from the perspective of having fewer apnea/hypopnea events. Buyer beware!

Mary Z said:

I just read an ad for "My Snoring Solution". This is a $90.00 strap that looks something like a chin lift strap for mouth breathers on a nasal mask. The way I read it they connect it to the chin lift jaw thrust method of opening the airway. I was wondering if wearing a similarly designed chin strap while on cpap FFM would improve AHI. I doesn't seem like it would because those folks who use a chin strap don't post "Wow, my AHI is 0" (I don't think they do).

This stuff is marketed so convincingly that I almost want to buy one and try it with my BPAP and see if my AHI magically falls to "0". I think there would be air leakage problems trying to get a mask seal over the strap, though. Also, my Mirage Quattro FFM does seem to lift my chin and keep my mouth closed for the most part and I'm still titrating and waiting to get my AI consistently under 5.
WOW, they do a good job of selling this strap. Hard to see why it costs so much though.
After taking a better look at the strap it doesn't look as if it would cause mask sealing problems. Maybe a homemade job out of panty hose would work as well. Any thoughts on this?

Mary Z.
https://snoringsolutionsite.com/default007.aspx?aid=NBL&sub-id=...

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