Silly/surprising side-benefits of sleeping with a CPAP:
* can pull covers over head and still breathe
* no more waking up dry+thirsty (humidified air, nose instead of mouth)
* reduced stuffiness from allergies (air filtered right before inhalation)
* elephant cosplay
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On a more serious note, I've wondered a few times how much global productivity could be unlocked if everyone with unexplained daytime drowsiness got polysomnography to check for mild apnea. $10^11/yr wouldn't surprise me. I was drowsy during the day for *years* before realizing.
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Heh me too 😴
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At-home polysomnography for all! I've talked to people who *realize* that apnea may be their problem, but they don't want to deal with going into a sleep center etc—and they don't realize they don't even have to do that anymore!
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Pretty cheap to log pO2 overnight to see if you'd benefit, too: amazon.com/AUPALLA-Finger
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is there more to it than logging pO2 overnight?
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The polysomnography will correlate drops in pO2 with artifacts in airflow and changes in EEG patterns, but my understanding is that low-pO2 incidents are one of the diagnostic criteria.