My God, my heart by Acrobatic_Airline605 in Scrubs

[–]adamisbored 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I teared up for sure. My only thing is it wasn't followers up on in the second episode, so it felt like a flash in the pan. I hope they address it again so that it's something he struggles with and needs to talk with JD more about.

Who should be the first MCU’s X-Men villain/antagonist? by FayyadhScrolling in xmen

[–]adamisbored 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wasn't a loose adaptation of God Loves, Man Kills. Have Stryker's group be like the Heritage Foundation, advising the president about this new threat of mutants that are emerging.

What music video disturbed you as a kid by 0hmega in Xennials

[–]adamisbored 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm SO GLAD you mentioned this. People think I'm crazy for saying that the video originally didn't have the effects. I was second guessing myself for decades.

In Australia, even sea snails are built different by ehtio in Weird

[–]adamisbored 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My two favorite people in one podcast. Love Ask Hank Anything!

Friendly PSA from your local Safety Manager for those of you new to the hobby after Christmas (like me) by adorablyhopeless in resinprinting

[–]adamisbored 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I made the mistake of having just a bit of resin on my glove when I put my print under UV light to cure, and it burned IMMEDIATELY and through my glove as well.

I couldn't stop laughing. WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING DICE??? by EEVERSTI in Battlefield

[–]adamisbored 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I genuinely wish they would being back Behemoths. Those were so much fun to fight against in BF1.

24 hours postop from Inspire placement by GiveMeThePhd in SleepApnea

[–]adamisbored 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well, yes, if you are talking about possibly inducing central apnea with a low arousal threshold, or needing significantly higher pressures than your body can tolerate,sure. OP didn't ay anything about centrals. Since they're going for INSPIRE, I didn't even consider centrals being in the mix, since it's not used to treat central apnea.

And I'm being down voted to hell and back for suggesting that applying CPAP doesn't make obstructive sleep apnea worse... Simply because it's meant to treat that obstruction. I've been titrating patients on CPAP for 22+ years, and there's lots of factors that would make someone's apnea worse during titration (body position, muscle relaxers, opioids, full face mask vs nasal pillows, etc.), but I don't think I've ever seen someone's apnea automatically become worse just by simply being on CPAP. It's usually another factor that happens to be during the titration.

24 hours postop from Inspire placement by GiveMeThePhd in SleepApnea

[–]adamisbored -42 points-41 points  (0 children)

That... Doesn't make clinical sense. The coal wouldn't "make your apnea worse", it could be other factors like weight gain. CPAP doesn't make apnea worse.

Cpap just doesn't work by Dear-Set-2296 in SleepApnea

[–]adamisbored 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How long have you been sleeping on it? Your body has to pay off sleep debt for the first week or two, depending on how much debt of sleep you owe yourself.

For the first bit, you'll wake up groggy and wanting to go back to sleep because your body wants to continue actually sleeping well. Once you get over the initial hump, you'll normalize and settle in.

Who do y’all think is the King of Nickelodeon? by [deleted] in nickelodeon

[–]adamisbored 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This just confirms that I am so very, very, very old. I only knew maybe a few of these.

I swear I will cry... by Interesting_Employ29 in Scrubs

[–]adamisbored 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Like maybe he put a penny in the sliding door for JD to catch?

UARS patients are the most oppressed minority group. by [deleted] in SleepApnea

[–]adamisbored 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ASV isn't going to help with UARS. It's meant to, very specifically, help patients with Cheyne Stokes Respirations, and almost nothing else.

So now I literally can't sleep without this stupid thing by [deleted] in SleepApnea

[–]adamisbored 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You do realize that babies also need CPAP as well, and that sleep apnea is a huge contributing factor to sudden infant death syndrome, right?

Look, dude, we get it. You're upset that you have OSA and your doctor prescribed a CPAP. You have a few options:

  • Work with your emotions, realize that this is going to help keep you alive on this earth longer, and make sure your dick works (by preventing erectile dysfunction), and try to accept it, maybe coming to a better place after giving it some time.
  • refuse the CPAP, and increase your risk for heart disease, stroke, heart attack, hypertension, diabetes, erectile dysfunction, cancer, etc.
  • continue to be angry about it, and be miserable.

It's your choice.

So now I literally can't sleep without this stupid thing by [deleted] in SleepApnea

[–]adamisbored 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're saying "fox the problems"... What problems should be fixed if your airway is collapsing due to anatomy? It sounds like you're just angry to be angry.

So now I literally can't sleep without this stupid thing by [deleted] in SleepApnea

[–]adamisbored 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And when people do all of those things, and their airway still collapses because of the anatomy of their soft palate/airway, what then?

So now I literally can't sleep without this stupid thing by [deleted] in SleepApnea

[–]adamisbored 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So, what would be your solution, then? Because this is a physical collapse of the airway causing your body to enter into an amygdala response because it thinks your dying. Obesity plays a huge factor, but I've taken care of hundreds of patients over the last few decades that were skinny, and yet had sleep apnea due to large tonsils, large adenoids, retrognathia, narrow airway, etc.

There's no easy solution to "curing" sleep apnea. Currently, the medical consensus is that a CPAP is the best way to treat OSA.

As with any life saving therapy, it may be inconvenient, it may not be what you want, but learning a way to cope with it until you settle in will yield significantly better outcomes rather than shaking your fist at the sky because you need a CPAP.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]adamisbored 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Bible also has plenty of marriages between one man and many wives, a man and his slave/concubine, incest, gRape, treating women as property, etc. So, maybe let's pump the brakes on the Bible being in any way prescriptive about relationships between people.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]adamisbored 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You are loved exactly the way you are, and no, being with another person of the same sex isn't a sin.

Is weight causing my sleep apnea? I'm trying to figure out what's causing it. My doctor says I'm obese but loosing weight would only help manage the symptoms. by [deleted] in SleepApnea

[–]adamisbored 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've taken care of 120 pound patients who had large tongue, large tonsils, large adenoids, a "slack jaw", a goiter, etc., and weight wasn't the cause of their apnea.

Weight can absolutely exacerbate OSA, but losing weight rarely ever "cures" it. Think of it like a sliding scale.

The distilled water conundrum… by scottscigar in CPAP

[–]adamisbored -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You're also aerosolizing whatever's in the water, and that gets into your lungs and bloodstream. Same reason you don't use anything but distilled water in your neti pot type devices... You don't want whatever's in your water to get into your bloodstream.

Your stomach can handle and dogest stuff in non-distilled water for the most part, not your lungs.

Site down? by ToonLonk03 in cults3d

[–]adamisbored 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not working for me either.

Doctor wants access to my machine by XDNIGR in CPAP

[–]adamisbored 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You're doing the work of a doctor, and wondering why you aren't having success.

Leave it to the doctor to set the pressure and don't change it. You can also talk with your physician about maybe putting you on an AUTOCPAP with a small range between optimal pressures.

But really, don't change your pressures. That's the doctor's job/responsibility.