alaxo stent

[Walla Walla]

[paulag1955]

What is a boil and bite thing?

[Gideon]

What is a boil and bite thing?

Sports mouth guard

[OpalRose]

Also used for bruxism. (Grinding of teeth while sleeping.)

[terriergal]

Nor me.  I can't even use a youth-sized boil and bite thing without gagging.  

but that goes in your mouth, not your nose.

[Sleeprider]

I think a lot of people have an opinion of what they think the stent is or its discomforts. In this thread, there is one person that has used it and knows. That it grosses you out, or you imagine it to be uncomfortable is not helpful. Keep an open mind, and listen to experiences. This is how we progress, and solve problems.

[Fats Drywaller]

I think a lot of people have an opinion of what they think the stent is or its discomforts.  In this thread, there is one person that has used it and knows.  That it grosses you out, or you imagine it to be uncomfortable is not helpful.  Keep an open mind, and listen to experiences.  This is how we progress, and solve problems.

Well, yeah, but the one person who knows (mikekw) also said "it was a terrible feeling" and "it isnt something I can see myself adapting and getting used to unfortunately", so what can we gather from that?

In the other recent thread on this, I objected to it on principle, but my reason there was that the OP just didn't like CPAP and couldn't get used to it.  What I was thinking, and I'm sure this has been discussed before, is that in a case where there is no physiological reason not to use CPAP, maybe psychotherapy of the strictly analytical kind (I mean psychoanalysis but no drugs or ECT or lobotomy or imprisonment, please) could help to overcome that phobia.

If there's some kind of well-founded medical reason not to use CPAP and to go for a stent as an alternative, I can see it, maybe. But if it's only that "It's CPAP that grosses me out!", well ... why not try to deal with that fear, and fix it?  Can millions of us happy pappers be wrong?

P.S.: Especially when the tube seems to be even more outrageously overpriced than a CPAP machine!

[Gideon]

I feel that this is a potential treatment for some people. So much so that I added it to a couple of our WIKI articles. In this case I feel it is a consideration. This obviously needs to be confirmed by a doctor who is familiar with the stent.

[terriergal]

I think a lot of people have an opinion of what they think the stent is or its discomforts.  In this thread, there is one person that has used it and knows.  That it grosses you out, or you imagine it to be uncomfortable is not helpful.  Keep an open mind, and listen to experiences.  This is how we progress, and solve problems.

Well, yeah, but the one person who knows (mikekw) also said "it was a terrible feeling" and "it isnt something I can see myself adapting and getting used to unfortunately", so what can we gather from that?

That you can't know until you try.

BTW I am used to CPAP. I can sleep with it on some of the time. I hate the constriction on my head. I wear a wig and all day I have something snug on my head usually, i don't want it 24/7 (the CPAP is much tighter and I wouldn't  want to even ever sleep with my wig on either!). 

I put my pressures back down to 10, slept OK last night, a couple of times my palate closed but I must have remained in the right Position enough of the night that it wasn't horrible.  But I also have my neck pain temporarily under control from a steroid epidural, which widens the number of positions I can sleep in. It will get worse again.   And migraines will make the CPAP intolerable if i have to try and sleep with a migraine.

[terriergal]

I feel that this is a potential treatment for some people.  So much so that I added it to a couple of our WIKI articles.  In this case I feel it is a consideration.  This obviously needs to be confirmed by a doctor who is familiar with the stent.

I really hope I can give it a try but i have to go through their hoops first re the titration test and whatnot.  I tell ya I am going to say something every time my palate closes because I hear from many people that they don't see it show up on the tests.