 snoring in youth hostels
In article <a01ac447.0411021122.4e6dc860@com >, Terry wrote:
>>
>> "apnoea" seems to be the UK spelling. A friend of mine found that
>> getting treatment for it has transformed his life. He has a lot more
>> energy, and is losing weight.
>
>I was in a long ride a few months ago and found myself in a group that
>turned out to be all doctors, two of whom were specialists in sleep
>apnoea .
>Nabil Ali had brought not one but two windcheetahs, which made an
>impression on me since I rode a 20+ year old Audax bike which is my
>best.
>
>I would say that it is a measure of the effectiveness of the treatment
>that the patients seem always to use it, inspite of it looking
>uncomfortable. It involves wearing a machine that blows air up your
>nose whenever you breathe in while asleep.
>People with this problem are almost always overweight.
Being overweight can (at least in part) cause the problem, but the problem
also can also (at least in part) cause overweightness, as sufferers eat to
try and make up for lack of energy caused by loss of sleep but aren't up
to much exercise.
So sometimes being just being told "go away and try losing some weight" by
a GP can fix it, and sometimes it takes a specialist with the machine
(and sometimes the GP is convinced that telling you to go away and lose some
weight should be enough and you have to fight to see the specialist).
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