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Bit rude of you to assume that I'm apparently an alcoholic or a smoker. Nice illustration of my point that public awareness on sleep apnea is lacking. Good lu

by elric 4y ago

Bit rude of you to assume that I'm apparently an alcoholic or a smoker. Nice illustration of my point that public awareness on sleep apnea is lacking. Good luck figuring out the root cause of sleep apnea. Years of research hasn't turned one up. There's a wide variety of contributing factors (including weight, alcohol, asthma/COPD). But there's also plenty of fat asthmatic drunks who don't have sleep apnea. It's obviously not as simple as you're making it out to be.

tempsy 4y ago
Do you have trouble breathing through your nose only? Other issue is people breathe through their mouth instead of nose. Get some nose strips and tape mouth shut and train yourself to breathe through your nose.
- elric 4y ago
  Please stop trying to diagnose me on HN without any context or background information. It's not helpful, and it's extremely condescending.
  - Cpoll 4y ago
    No one cares specifically about _your_ diagnosis, obviously we don't know you. You put yourself up for discussion when you posted your stance. You yourself called it a soapbox. Now people are using you as the obvious example and satisfying their curiosity. According to your initial post, you should be glad for the questions so that you can combat misconceptions.
- antisthenes 4y ago
  Did it ever occur to you that sometimes the structure of people's face makes it harder or easier to breathe through the nose exclusively? Unless you're a doctor, you should probably stop giving unsolicited medical advice on the internet.
  - tempsy 4y ago
    no that is not why “millions” of people have undiagnosed sleep apnea
- schwartzworld 4y ago
  This sounds quite dangerous if someone has apnea.
Llamamoe 4y ago
> Good luck figuring out the root cause of sleep apnea. Inadequate jaw development. We're so used to people having recessed jaws that we're just used to considering several mm of recession as a normal, non-recessed face, and we don't even think about the fact that most kids have jaws so tiny that their teeth don't fit properly and they need braces. This causes both narrow, collapse-prone airways, and tiny nasal cavities that have high airflow resistance and deviated septums. Both age and obesity largely just convert people from waking up out of airway collapse to overt apneas.

by elric 4y ago

tempsy 4y ago

Do you have trouble breathing through your nose only? Other issue is people breathe through their mouth instead of nose. Get some nose strips and tape mouth shut and train yourself to breathe through your nose.

elric 4y ago
Please stop trying to diagnose me on HN without any context or background information. It's not helpful, and it's extremely condescending.
- Cpoll 4y ago
  No one cares specifically about _your_ diagnosis, obviously we don't know you. You put yourself up for discussion when you posted your stance. You yourself called it a soapbox. Now people are using you as the obvious example and satisfying their curiosity. According to your initial post, you should be glad for the questions so that you can combat misconceptions.
antisthenes 4y ago
Did it ever occur to you that sometimes the structure of people's face makes it harder or easier to breathe through the nose exclusively? Unless you're a doctor, you should probably stop giving unsolicited medical advice on the internet.
- tempsy 4y ago
  no that is not why “millions” of people have undiagnosed sleep apnea
schwartzworld 4y ago
This sounds quite dangerous if someone has apnea.

Llamamoe 4y ago

> Good luck figuring out the root cause of sleep apnea. Inadequate jaw development. We're so used to people having recessed jaws that we're just used to considering several mm of recession as a normal, non-recessed face, and we don't even think about the fact that most kids have jaws so tiny that their teeth don't fit properly and they need braces. This causes both narrow, collapse-prone airways, and tiny nasal cavities that have high airflow resistance and deviated septums. Both age and obesity largely just convert people from waking up out of airway collapse to overt apneas.