this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
23 points (100.0% liked)

Hacker News

202 readers
3 users here now

This community serves to share top posts on Hacker News with the wider fediverse.

Rules0. Keep it legal

  1. Keep it civil and SFW
  2. Keep it safe for members of marginalised groups

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
23
Flipping the model presents a new way to treat sleep apnoea (news.flinders.edu.au)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
5 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A lot of very effective unspecified things, very helpful to bring to my doctor

[–] insomniac 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I always tell my doctor, no matter what, just flip the model. If they don’t know what I’m talking about, I just bring up emerging technologies and it works every time. I think this cures all diseases.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I will just turn my mask upside-down tonight, should do wonders for my sleep

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They talk about oral appliances. It's basically a mouth guard that brings your lower jaw forward so your tongue doesn't collapse into your airway. Then they combine "other therapies" which are surgical. They refer to adenoid removal, deviated septum repair, and turbinate reduction. Do all these things before CPAP, and the size of the pool of people who are going to 50% fail CPAP is a lot smaller.

I'm in that fail pool, pending septum surgery. Did a lot of research into alternatives.