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CPAP
May 2026 · 6 min
Starting CPAP for Sleep Apnea: What the "Just Wear the Mask" Advice Gets Right and Wrong
The advice arrives almost as a reflex. You leave the sleep clinic with a diagnosis, a prescription, and a sentence everyone seems to repeat: just wear the mask, you'll get used to it.
By Megan Caldwell · Read →
CPAP
May 2026 · 5 min
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.
By Sophie Alderton · Read →
CPAP
May 2026 · 6 min
What PAP Therapy Actually Does to Your Throat at 3 A.M.
The night before my titration study, I clipped a borrowed pulse oximeter to my index finger and went to sleep curious about my own throat. The graph in the morning looked like a saw blade.
By Diane Norwood · Read →
CPAP
May 2026 · 5 min
CPAP Therapy Adherence Is a Habituation Problem, Not a Willpower One
You have probably been handed a number. Maybe by a sleep technician, maybe by a forum, maybe by the inside of your own head at 2 a.m.
By Diane Norwood · Read →
CPAP
May 2026 · 5 min
The Stuffy Nose Nobody Warned You About: Nasal Congestion and Sleep Apnea Therapy
You bought the machine to breathe better at night. Three weeks in, you wake up with a nose so blocked you could pack it for shipping.
By Owen Blackwell · Read →
CPAP
May 2026 · 5 min
Three Months on CPAP for Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA): A First-Person Comparison of Mask, Pressure, and Patience
After the sleep lab handed back an apnea-hypopnea index of 34 — moderate-to-severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), 34 breathing events an hour, oxygen dipping to 81% — I was given a prescription, a…
By Patrick Sumner · Read →
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