Claire Munroe
Night Eating Syndrome Diagnosis and Definition: What Ten Weeks of CBT Actually Changed
Cognitive behavioral therapy for night eating syndrome spends almost no time on the eating. That is the thing nobody told me before I started, and it is the reason I am writing this.
Can Weight Loss Fix Sleep Apnea? What the Numbers Actually Say
I bought a fingertip pulse oximeter for nineteen dollars because I didn't believe my wife. She'd been telling me for a year that I stopped breathing at night — long pauses, then a gasp, the kind of…
Sleep Apnea and Depression: How a Diagnosis Kept Getting Missed
A man in his fifties spends four years on antidepressants. Two SSRIs, then a switch, then an augmenting agent. He is tired in a way sleep does not fix.
The Case for Owning Two CPAP Masks
The advice you'll hear in almost every clinic and every forum thread is some version of: find the one mask that works, and stick with it. It's not bad advice.
The Night My CPAP Data Vanished: A Field Guide to ResMed Device Registration and CPAP Data Management
There was a night I slept seven hours on my ResMed AirSense, woke up, opened the myAir app, and saw nothing. No score. No usage hours. No little green checkmark telling me I'd done the homework.
I Walked 30 Minutes a Day for Eight Weeks to See If Exercise Touches Sleep Apnea
For eight weeks I walked 30 minutes every morning and tracked what happened to my breathing at night, because I wanted to know whether the advice people give about sleep apnea — just move more — was a…
COPD Basics for the Tired Lung: What the Overlap with Sleep Apnea Actually Means
For a week last winter I clipped a pulse oximeter on my finger every morning before coffee and wrote the number on the back of an envelope.
I Tracked My Sleep for Six Weeks Around an Offensive Lineman's Schedule to Understand Sleep Apnea in Athletes
The healthiest-looking person on a roster can have the breathing of a man twenty years older and forty pounds heavier — because, for the duration of his career, he often is that man on paper.
Is Sleep Deprivation the Same for Everyone? The Question of Who Pays for a Bad Night
You have probably seen the number: about one in three American adults sleeps less than seven hours a night.