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It sounds silly but try sleeping with tape over your mouth to encourage nose breathing. If you do have sleep apnea, while not as effective as a CPAP machine, it

by rojeee 4y ago

It sounds silly but try sleeping with tape over your mouth to encourage nose breathing. If you do have sleep apnea, while not as effective as a CPAP machine, it might help. Good luck!

nobody9999 4y ago
> It sounds silly but try sleeping with tape over your mouth to encourage nose breathing. If you do have sleep apnea, while not as effective as a CPAP machine, it might help. Good luck! It sounds silly because it is siily OSA generally manifests itself in the throat/trachea and (shocking, I know) all respiration, whether through the nose or mouth must pass through that area. If that area is obstructed, then it doesn't matter whether you breathe through your nose or mouth (in fact, CPAP masks come in a variety of flavors -- nose only, mouth only and mouth/nose). I'm not trying to be dismissive here, but given the way OSA causes problems in breathing, your "advice" is worse than useless.
- rojeee 4y ago
  Alright, chill out mate! I'm just taking this from a book I read called "breath". The author did this and suggested it fixed his sleep apnea. Also, for what it's worth, I tape my mouth if I have a cold/hay fever and it stops me snoring if my nose isn't too inflamed.
  - nobody9999 4y ago
    >Alright, chill out mate! I'm not your "mate." And I'm not really all that exercised over the ridiculous "information" you provided. But "duty calls"[0]. >I'm just taking this from a book I read called "breath". The earth is flat. Ivermectin cures COVID. There's a global conspiracy of members of the US Democratic Party that kills babies to extract their tasty, tasty adrenochrome. Direct sunlight kills vampires. Vampires exist. I read all of the above, but I don't repeat such pernicious nonsense as fact. And if I did, you'd likely call me out on it. And well you should. >Also, for what it's worth, I tape my mouth if I have a cold/hay fever and it stops me snoring if my nose isn't too inflamed. Good. I'm glad that works for you. However while snoring might be a symptom of OSA, taping your mouth as a "cure" for OSA makes no sense at all. Honestly, I don't really care what you do (although you might try taping your fingers together to avoid interactions like this -- yeah, that's the ticket!) or say, but you made statements that are unsupported by any facts. Heck, you even said that it "sounds silly." And it is. Under most circumstances, I love silly. In this case, however, you're just ignorantly spouting off. But don't change anything you do, say or think because of me. You go, girl! [0] https://xkcd.com/386/ https://xkcd.com/386/

by rojeee 4y ago

It sounds silly but try sleeping with tape over your mouth to encourage nose breathing. If you do have sleep apnea, while not as effective as a CPAP machine, it might help. Good luck!

nobody9999 4y ago

> It sounds silly but try sleeping with tape over your mouth to encourage nose breathing. If you do have sleep apnea, while not as effective as a CPAP machine, it might help. Good luck! It sounds silly because it is siily OSA generally manifests itself in the throat/trachea and (shocking, I know) all respiration, whether through the nose or mouth must pass through that area. If that area is obstructed, then it doesn't matter whether you breathe through your nose or mouth (in fact, CPAP masks come in a variety of flavors -- nose only, mouth only and mouth/nose). I'm not trying to be dismissive here, but given the way OSA causes problems in breathing, your "advice" is worse than useless.

rojeee 4y ago
Alright, chill out mate! I'm just taking this from a book I read called "breath". The author did this and suggested it fixed his sleep apnea. Also, for what it's worth, I tape my mouth if I have a cold/hay fever and it stops me snoring if my nose isn't too inflamed.
- nobody9999 4y ago
  >Alright, chill out mate! I'm not your "mate." And I'm not really all that exercised over the ridiculous "information" you provided. But "duty calls"[0]. >I'm just taking this from a book I read called "breath". The earth is flat. Ivermectin cures COVID. There's a global conspiracy of members of the US Democratic Party that kills babies to extract their tasty, tasty adrenochrome. Direct sunlight kills vampires. Vampires exist. I read all of the above, but I don't repeat such pernicious nonsense as fact. And if I did, you'd likely call me out on it. And well you should. >Also, for what it's worth, I tape my mouth if I have a cold/hay fever and it stops me snoring if my nose isn't too inflamed. Good. I'm glad that works for you. However while snoring might be a symptom of OSA, taping your mouth as a "cure" for OSA makes no sense at all. Honestly, I don't really care what you do (although you might try taping your fingers together to avoid interactions like this -- yeah, that's the ticket!) or say, but you made statements that are unsupported by any facts. Heck, you even said that it "sounds silly." And it is. Under most circumstances, I love silly. In this case, however, you're just ignorantly spouting off. But don't change anything you do, say or think because of me. You go, girl! [0] https://xkcd.com/386/ https://xkcd.com/386/