Sophie Alderton
Starting CPAP Therapy: What the 4-Hour Number Actually Means
There is a number that will follow you for the next ninety days, whether anyone tells you or not: four hours a night, on 70 percent of nights.
What Sleep Apnea Insurance Actually Pays For: The 70% Number, Explained
There is a number that quietly decides whether your insurance keeps paying for your CPAP machine, and most newly diagnosed patients have never heard it: 70%.
If I Have Sleep Apnea, Is My Morning Coffee Making It Worse?
The question gets asked, almost in a whisper, in every sleep clinic waiting room: if my airway is already collapsing at night, am I sabotaging myself with the cup I drink at 7 a.m.?
Tinnitus and Sleep: Comparing the Three Remedies People Actually Try
There is a specific hour — usually around 2 a.m., usually after the third failed attempt to get back to sleep — when the ringing stops being a sound and becomes a kind of weather.
The Walk That Cost Me Three Days: Living Inside the Physiology of ME/CFS
On a Tuesday in late March I walked 1.2 kilometres to the corner shop and back. Flat footpath, mild morning, no hills.
What a Sleep Study for Suspected Obstructive Sleep Apnea Actually Involves
Most people show up to their first sleep study having counted the wires in a stock photo. Twenty-six is the number that gets stuck in the head — sometimes more, depending on the lab.
Sleep Apnea Treatment by Severity: What an AHI of 15 Actually Buys You
The number to know before you walk into a sleep clinic is 15. That's the apnea-hypopnea index — events per hour of sleep — at which Medicare and most private US insurers will cover a CPAP without…