Need help with CPAP for camper
Fairly new to CPAP. The VA bought mine and it is strictly 110 volt. I thought no problem just get an inverter. Got a Schumacher 410 watt. Runs the CPAP OK but every time I take a breath in, the in...
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MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
. . . No more snoozing at 20,000 feet.
I like that comparison. I wonder how many people really appreciate its significance.
The real problem with sleep apnea is not that you wake up and don’t get good rest. The main problem is that when you stop breathing normally, your blood oxygen level goes down – you are suffocating, much like being at high altitude with no supplemental oxygen or air pressure. This is what signals the brain to wake up or, more commonly, temporarily go into a lighter level of sleep so that the body is aroused enough to start breathing again and increase the oxygen level. This cycle can happen many times an hour.
Starving the body of oxygen has many bad effects, which you can easily read about on-line in articles about sleep apnea, etc. Sleep apnea is not something to be taken lightly.
Wayne
