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Posted by Idahoqltr on August 16, 2006, 11:25 am
Just a heads up to all of you using CPAP. I am also a user, but there
is an alternative that you might want to check on. It is called TAP.
I go to a Cranio-facial doctor recommended by my sleep specialist. It
is a mouth appliance with top and bottom parts. There is a screw that
can adjust how the teeth meet. It pulls your jaw forward so that the
falling back that shuts off the airway is decreased. The great thing
is it is so much smaller than CPAP and you just put it in denture
cleaner each morning. I still have to have the overnight study to
measure the effects, but I think it is working as well for me. The
CPAP wasn't a total cure for me, the apneac episodes were stopped but I
am still somewhat tired and don't sleep really well. It may be my
depression or the meds I take for that. Just another reason getting
old is the pits.
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Posted by KJ on August 16, 2006, 1:22 pm
Thanks for the note. At least I'd understand what they are talking about if
it were being offered.
KJ
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> Just a heads up to all of you using CPAP. I am also a user, but there
> is an alternative that you might want to check on. It is called TAP.
> I go to a Cranio-facial doctor recommended by my sleep specialist. It
> is a mouth appliance with top and bottom parts. There is a screw that
> can adjust how the teeth meet. It pulls your jaw forward so that the
> falling back that shuts off the airway is decreased. The great thing
> is it is so much smaller than CPAP and you just put it in denture
> cleaner each morning. I still have to have the overnight study to
> measure the effects, but I think it is working as well for me. The
> CPAP wasn't a total cure for me, the apneac episodes were stopped but I
> am still somewhat tired and don't sleep really well. It may be my
> depression or the meds I take for that. Just another reason getting
> old is the pits.
>
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Posted by Jacqueline on August 16, 2006, 2:18 pm
KJ, if it is like it is here the hummifier will not be offered you
will have to ask for it. I asked up front, but they told me I could
have the humifier but not the heated, after a little complaining they
let me have the heated one. Funny thing is the machine I use came
with the heat but they wouldn't let me hook it up and when I did it
cost more. Now figure that one out? It wasn't their electricity that
was being used it was mine.
Jacqueline
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Posted by Cheryle Finn on August 16, 2006, 2:57 pm
Thanks for the info. I have had my CPAP 8 years now and like you I am
still tired. I will be checking the TAP out.
Cheryle
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Posted by Sandy on August 16, 2006, 9:04 pm
Hi There,
I'll admit it, I'm a lurker but this subject pulled me out of
lurkedness.
I use a CPAP as well. I just came back from an overnight trip to
Atlantic City. I shared a room with my daughter and brought my machine
along so that my snoring didn't bother her. The machine weighs a ton!
I should have had a small overnight bag, instead I had a regular piece
of luggage on wheels so that it could accomadate my pajamas, change of
clothes, a few tolietries and that stupid CPAP machine. (Note: my
machine did come with a travel case but the case does not have wheels
and that annoying machine is too heavy for me to be lugging it around.)
Could you please tell me what TAP stands for? I would like to google
it and read up on it.
Is it like a retainer? Is it really comfortable enough to sleep with?
Please share how your new sleep study went.
Thank you
SandyFromNJ
Idahoqltr wrote:
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> Just a heads up to all of you using CPAP. I am also a user, but there
> is an alternative that you might want to check on. It is called TAP.
> I go to a Cranio-facial doctor recommended by my sleep specialist. It
> is a mouth appliance with top and bottom parts. There is a screw that
> can adjust how the teeth meet. It pulls your jaw forward so that the
> falling back that shuts off the airway is decreased. The great thing
> is it is so much smaller than CPAP and you just put it in denture
> cleaner each morning. I still have to have the overnight study to
> measure the effects, but I think it is working as well for me. The
> CPAP wasn't a total cure for me, the apneac episodes were stopped but I
> am still somewhat tired and don't sleep really well. It may be my
> depression or the meds I take for that. Just another reason getting
> old is the pits.
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> is an alternative that you might want to check on. It is called TAP.
> I go to a Cranio-facial doctor recommended by my sleep specialist. It
> is a mouth appliance with top and bottom parts. There is a screw that
> can adjust how the teeth meet. It pulls your jaw forward so that the
> falling back that shuts off the airway is decreased. The great thing
> is it is so much smaller than CPAP and you just put it in denture
> cleaner each morning. I still have to have the overnight study to
> measure the effects, but I think it is working as well for me. The
> CPAP wasn't a total cure for me, the apneac episodes were stopped but I
> am still somewhat tired and don't sleep really well. It may be my
> depression or the meds I take for that. Just another reason getting
> old is the pits.
>