Rachel Stanton
I Asked Whether Sleep Apnea Was Coming for My Eyes. Here's What I Found.
I have used a CPAP machine every night for four years. In that time, three cardiologists and one primary-care doctor have talked to me about my heart. Not one has mentioned my eyes.
Can Extended Reality (XR) Actually Put You to Sleep? The Biology Says Maybe
Here is a claim that should not be true: the single most overstimulating consumer device of the decade — a screen strapped two inches from your eyes, rendering a glowing world at 90 frames per second…
I Stopped Calling It Snoring: Living Beside Central Sleep Apnea
The loudest sleep apnea is the easy one. The dangerous one is quiet. That sentence sounds backwards, and for the first month I lived beside it I would have argued with it.
I Slept on a VPAP for Three Weeks: A Breath-by-Breath Review
For three weeks I swapped my fixed-pressure CPAP for a VPAP — variable, or bilevel, positive airway pressure — and tracked what changed breath by breath.
CPAP Machine Setup Fails More Often at the Login Screen Than Anywhere Else
You can get the mask fitted, the pressure prescribed, the humidifier filled, and the machine humming beside your bed — and still not be "set up." Because the part of CPAP machine setup that strands…
If You Can't Stand CPAP, Is There a Real Sleep Apnea Treatment That Works Instead?
There is a specific object in a lot of bedrooms: a CPAP machine, boxed or shoved under the bed, used for nine nights and then abandoned.
Natural Sleep Aids and the 7-Minute Question: What Melatonin Actually Does
Somewhere in the last decade you probably absorbed a number, even if you can't place where: melatonin helps you fall asleep about seven minutes faster. Not seven hours. Seven minutes.
Sleep Apnea Severity Is a Number — and the Number Is Stranger Than It Looks
There is a number on your sleep study, and it probably has a decimal point. Maybe it says 27.4. Maybe 8.1, or 62.0.
Your CPAP Still Shows Apneas. That Doesn't Mean Your Sleep Apnea Treatment Failed
There is a small ritual that almost every CPAP user develops in the first week. You wake up, you pull the mask off, and before you've fully decided to be awake, your thumb is on the phone, opening the…