Do You Give A Damn About Your Life?..(with poll)
You should if you snore loudly.The bane of many a relationship, (including the one between Mr. and Mrs. Boilerman), is often snoring, and it is not always the husband that is the culprit.Did you know...
View ArticleAlive! Defibrillator, CPAP, a bicycle and art.
The Saddleback Mountains block the dawn each morning when I ride my bicycle to the bus stop. The darkness and the early hour help me focus attention on the sound of the hum of my tires on the street...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: Insomnia keeping you up?
I'm amazed - and worried - that so many of you can't sleep. I was hosting WYFP last weekend when someone came in and talked about their problem with insomnia, asking me if I could help. I promised to...
View ArticleThe Holidays and Sleep Apnea: Change a Life w/poll
It's time for you to change someone's life, even save it.Perhaps you are the one who needs the change. Maybe it's time for your father, your brother, your best friend.Lack of good sleep can destroy a...
View ArticleThe Sleep Apnea Diary
I have sleep apnea. In a world of cancers and cataracts, sleep apnea seems to me like a trivial topic for a diary, but some fellow Kossacks saw it differently and encouraged me to write this. For...
View ArticleWeight Loss Kos: Help! I can’t sleep in this blasted CPAP Mask
Obstructive sleep apnea happens when muscles in the back of the throat relax too much during sleep and block the airway. This results in low oxygen levels, stress on the heart, and sudden waking with...
View ArticlePsych Assoc.(Once Labeled Being Gay as a Disease) Says Your Sleep Apnea is...
When science intersects with money, science gets tossed out the window. We see this with global warming deniers. The same is true of medical science. There is no medical textbook as politically---and...
View ArticleMELATONIN: Surprise! Its 4 much more than sleep.
Would you believe: prevention of cancer; inhibition of immunosuppression; a treatment for Jetlag; for serving as a potent body antioxidant; as therapy for preventing the progression of Alzheimer’s...
View ArticleMojo Friday - Sleep Apnea - Edition
What Is Sleep Apnea? Sleep apnea (AP-ne-ah) is a common disorder in which you have one or more pauses in breathing or shallow breaths while you sleep. Breathing pauses can last from a few seconds to...
View ArticlePlease Don't Say "Just Lose Weight"
No chronic medical condition is as common and commonly unrecognized at obstructive sleep apnea. Somewhere between 10 and 16 % of Americans over 40 stop moving air in and out of their lungs/experience...
View Article"Life After CPAP" I Wrote a Book about my OSA. You Can Get it Free.
For those who do not know, I am a family physician with a Masters Public Health with a special interest in health disparities and health education. I work in a large urban public health clinic for the...
View ArticleA Sleep Revolution is Coming in Public Health
In the 19th century, people knew that their water was clean. They could tell by looking at it. Sniffing it. Tasting. Then Louis Pasteur showed them what they could not see, smell or taste---microbes...
View ArticleIf You Lost Your Job in 2008, You Might Have a Sleep Disorder
I don't have a lot of time today, so I will make this quick. There are more details in "Life Without CPAP" which is still available free today at Amazon for kindle and which I will still send you free...
View ArticleQuestion of the night: sleep apnea?
It is now estimated that 26 percent of Americans between the ages of 30 to 70 have sleep apnea. Of course this number includes people unaware that they have it.I’ve had apnea now for over ten years and...
View ArticleJust curious: Do you or someone you know have sleep apnea?
There was a great diary the other day about having pain and also suffering from insomnia.I raised the fact that I have sleep apnea and that if I do not wear my CPAP and I am in pain I cannot sleep at...
View ArticleDream Warriors: A Project About PTSD/Migraines/Sleep Apnea and Hypervigilance
Recognize the picture above? Yes, it is by William Blake. One of his most famous. But do you recognize it? Have you seen it yourself, in your mind’s eye? Or something very like it. If you have, keep...
View ArticlePTSD, Sleep Apnea and Gastroesophageal Reflex: A Hypothesis
Wanted to share some thoughts I had today about the difficult problem of treating sleep apnea in people who are hypervigilant and therefore sleep too lightly to use CPAP. A group which includes me (as...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 11/23/2019: A Good Night's Sleep
Until fairly recently, sleep has not been something I’ve really had to think about. I went to bed when I was tired (which has been earlier and earlier nowadays), slept until Zoe woke me up for...
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Can CPAP's help Flatten the Curve of COVID-19?
UPDATE: I am in no way, shape or form suggesting a CPAP is as good as a ventilator. Nor am I suggesting to do this in place of speaking with a physician. Both physicians of the friends to whom I loaned...
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