stuffuru

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by stuffuru 2y ago
I learned abt sleep apnea from HN a couple of years ago. Treatment has made a noticeable improvement to my quality of life. I went the surgical route (EASE, MMA, pharyngoplasty) and while it's not made me 100% (one of the surgeons was
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by stuffuru 3y ago
It helped me. I no longer wake up feeling congested. The impact on sleep was more subtle. I had some prior complications so I wasn’t able to expand as much as the avg patient.
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by stuffuru 3y ago
lots of people with chronic allergic or non-allergic rhinitis aren't able to breathe through their nose.
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by stuffuru 3y ago
Look into the EASE procedure by Dr. Kasey Li
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by stuffuru 4y ago
The first surgeon was incompetent in hindsight. I had meager advancement from the jaw surgery and the expansion pattern was suboptimal (in addition to various complications).
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by stuffuru 4y ago
I was tired all the time. My sleep got really bad in my late 20s and I ended up getting a sleep study (AHI ~10, no RDI scored) based on recommendations from the HN crowd. My then symptoms were excessive daytime sleepiness and erectile dysfu
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by stuffuru 4y ago
In my experience vitamin D tests were never part of their standard blood test panel. They had no problems prescribing it for me when I asked but it wasn't covered by insurance.
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by stuffuru 4y ago
how does soundmind compare to the dreem headband?
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by stuffuru 4y ago
I'm one of those people who have had success with MADs in r/SleepApnea. Unfortunately I couldn't use it long term due to preexisting issues with my bite, and had to get surgeries instead.
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by stuffuru 4y ago
do you score RERAs (respiratory effort related arousals) in your home sleep test?
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by stuffuru 5y ago
there's the inspire implant[1] for sleep apnea which sounds like what you're describing, but I'm not sure how much help it'd be in the case of muscular dystrophy. [1] https://www.uhhospitals.org/services&
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by stuffuru 5y ago
My arch nemesis when it comes to sleep is obstructive sleep apnea. I have some soft tissue redundancies (long uvula and turbinate hypertrophy) as well as skeletal deficiencies (recessed jaw and narrow nasal cavity), and I had to have multip