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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since you know it is there, how about you just don't trip on it?[/quote]

SERIOUSLY. Giving women a bad name, here.

I tell my partner every day how much I appreciate his using it. I know it's not the most comfortable thing, and it makes him feel old and unsexy. But he wears it because he snores without it, keeping me awake. The very last thing I'm going to do is make it worse for him by complaining about tripping over something that is always there, in the same place, and easy for me to avoid. [/quote]

It’s sweet that your husband uses the CPAP to keep from disturbing your sleep with his snoring.

Hopefully he understands that using the CPAP is also preserving his heart and other organ health, because suffering untreated apnea and being oxygen deficient every night is a road to early death. [/quote]
 
My husband used his for about six months, maybe a year (time flies when you're old and I can't remember), but he stopped because he says he couldn't tell any difference so in his mind he didn't need it. I've tried to suggest that it's helping in ways he can't see or feel but no luck. I know it was annoying, but I hate that he won't use it.
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Oh that’s awful poster, truly. You should consider putting some materials in front of him to educate him on the long term ramifications of untreated sleep apnea. Carrie Fisher died in large part from untreated sleep apnea, you know - it’s on her death certificate.

Get an O2 monitor with an alarm and make him wear it, so he can see how low his O2 goes when he’s sleeping. Many with moderate to severe apnea fall into the 60s/70s - that’s terrible for health! Our O2 levels should be well into the high 90s when we are healthy, and when they fall it isn’t just about breathlessness we may feel - like when we have Covid, or RSV, or pneumonia- but our entire body and all organ systems are being starved of oxygen all night while we are sleeping and suffering apnea episodes, each of which drags us lower. This is particularly impactful on the heart muscle and on the brain, although low O2 levels are bad all around.

You need to try to make him understand that even if he doesn’t feel sleepy or tired during the day, his body is still aging far more rapidly than it would with healthy O2 levels.

Here’s what AI said when I typed in ‘I don’t feel tired, why do I need CPAP?’

[quote]You might need a CPAP even without feeling tired because sleep apnea causes silent, nightly health problems like blood pressure spikes, inflammation, and stress hormone surges, damaging your heart and metabolism, and leading to long-term risks like stroke, heart disease, and diabetes, even if you feel rested due to brief awakenings or adrenaline bursts that mask the underlying issues. CPAP treats these hidden health threats, not just daytime sleepiness.[/quote]

AI sourced that answer from the American Medical Association’s website, ‘what doctors wish patients knew about sleep apnea.’[/quote]

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