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PSA: if you sound like a thundering wildebeest choking to death please consider getting tested for sleep apnea. there are interventions that could maybe dramatically improve the quality of your sleep forever

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Visa

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@visakanv

· Oct 22, 2020

One of the things you get sleeping in a room with a dozen guys is exposure to many different kinds of snoring. Some dudes snore a cute gentle snore, and then there are dudes who sound like thundering wildebeest choking to death

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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i googled around to find a sleep apnea specialist in my area who was very nice and competent and he eventually determined i had sleep apnea (said i had a large tongue that blocked off my throat at night lol) and got me fitted for an oral appliance: somnomed.com/en/patients/so

QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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@QiaochuYuan

Oct 22, 2020

been wearing it at night for... i don't even know, at least a year now, maybe two, and i'm sleeping much better now (still not consistently super great but it was awful before). every night i don't sleep with it in i wake up feeling awful in my chest and the day is ruined

QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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@QiaochuYuan

Oct 22, 2020

it takes some getting used to and i think it's now causing some unfortunate tension in my jaw but the way my chest used to feel before was much worse

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The funnest part is the choking. Your brain wakes you up for a few seconds so you breath again and don't die.

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I just realized I’m still carrying some guilt from a time that I knew this but failed to tell a stranger I encountered that definitely has this problem

Loft

@loftbruk

Oct 22, 2020

Getting treatment for his sleep apnea made a tremendous improvement in my Father’s (and so consequently also my mother’s) life

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Yes. Sleep apnea is criminally underdiagnosed. It affects plenty of people who do not fit the typical profile of an old fat dude. If you have frequent nightmares, wake up with a headache, frequent heartburn, sore throat but don't have a cold, etc ... you should get tested.