Sleep Apnea
Sleep apnea is a breathing disorder that fragments the night for millions; find CPAP reviews, AHI guides, mask-fit notes, and science on daytime fatigue.
The 90 Percent Problem: What the Inspire V Implant Really Offers as a Sleep Apnea Treatment
The number usually comes near the end of the announcement, just after the surgeon's quote: roughly 90 percent of patients say they're satisfied.
Sleep Apnea Travel and Your Heart: Tracing a Fear Back to Its Source
The machine comes out of the bag at 5:12 in the morning and the woman ahead of me apologizes to nobody in particular. Small white box, coiled hose, a bin of its own.
The Hardest Part of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Starts After the Diagnosis
The report says 34. Thirty-four times an hour, averaged across a night you have no memory of, your throat closed and your brain surfaced just far enough to open it again.
Sleep Apnea Treatment Alternatives: The Genio Implant and the Thin History Under the Mask
The number you'll hear is that CPAP works in about 95 percent of people with obstructive sleep apnea. The figure is real and close to useless, because it measures a machine rather than a person.
Fourteen Months, Two Home Tests, and a Coffee Log: My Own Sleep Apnea Treatment Experiment
My CPAP ran on 17 nights out of 77. I have the compliance report from the equipment supplier, and the gaps in it are not ambiguous — a wall of grey with a few blue stripes bunched near the beginning…
The Best Mattresses for Sleep Apnea Are Only Half the Machine: 40 Nights on Three Adjustable Bed Bases
Thirty-one percent. That is the median drop in my own oxygen desaturation index — four-percent dips, counted per hour of recording — across forty scored nights, flat deck against nine degrees of head…