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Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 5,264 Likes: 5 | Ahhh - thanks I'm just learning this on the other end from a friend who just brought it home. The machine she has uses a constant low air flow though her nose. She has only a few episodes a night... Under 5 - usually 2 or 3 - but I gather she's not sure specifically how it woks. 
Cheryl : Irritation - 2004 BX: 6/2008 : Inflam. BX: 12/10, DX: 12/10 : SCC - LS tongue well dif. T2N1M0. 2/11 hemigloss + recon. : PND - 40 nodes - 39 clear. 3/11 - 5/11 IMRT 33 + cis x2, PEG 3/28/11 - 5/19/11 3 head, 2 chest scans - clear(fingers crossed) HPV-, No smoke, drink, or drugs, Vegan
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Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 1,024 | CPAP is a pressure system. Continuous Positive Airway Pressure.The clinic will determine how much pressure each individual patient needs on inspiration to keep their airways open. Thus respiration/ breathing occurs without interruption.
People who need CPAP usually have floppy tissues in their airways which obstruct their normal breathing . Hence obstructive sleep apnoea.
Tammy
Caregiver/advocate to Husband Kris age 59@ diagnosis
DX Dec '10 SCC BOT T4aN2bM0 HPV+ve.Cisplatin x3 35 IMRT.
PET 6/11 clear.
R) level 2-4 neck dissection 8/1/11 to remove residual node - necrotic with NED
Feb '12 Ca back.. 3/8/12 total glossectomy/laryngectomy/bilat neck dissection/partial pharyngectomy etc. clear margins. All nodes negative for disease. PEG in.
March 2017 - 5 years disease free. Woohoo!
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Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 151 | Has anyone ever tried breathing with one of these on? My husband has the full face mask since he needed a very high setting. I have tried breathing with this one and it is so unnatural, I can't imagine being able to sleep with it!! His sleep apnea seems so much better now than last summer. His lymphedema is under control so that seems to make a huge difference. He can now fall asleep without it on and breath normal but as he gets into deeper sleep I can tell his airway starts to close and time to get the mask on. I would think that the setting could be safely lowered if he had another sleep study. Maybe that would make it less annoying to wear at night.
Husband diagnosed Oct '11 Cancer of the vocal cord Nov '11 removed right vocal cord. Neck Dissection, cancer in one node, .2, very small & contained) Jan '12 Radiation and Cisplatin, 6 doses. June '12 & Dec '12 clear Pet scan. April '13 Celebrating 1 year cancer free since treatment ended.
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