You made your New Years resolution to lose weight, stop smoking or sleep better. But why is it that it’s so hard to keep going, let alone even to get started? If you have untreated obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), kathy and I will cover 5 of the most common reasons why people fail in keeping any goal in life.
What are your specific sleep goals for 2019?
Please respond in the comments area below.
Show Notes
How OSA Can Ruin Your New Years Resolutions blog post
CPAP Alternatives podcast
Sleep apnea and erectile dysfunction blog post
Sexual intimacy and OSA blog post
OSA and brain damage interview with Dr. Harper
Brain dysfunction and sleep deprivation interview with Dr. Borelli
Historical figures who took regular naps
I just started treating my mild to moderate sleep apnea with a dental appliance, after an epic failure to comply with the CPAP machine 10 years ago.
Any tips on this, ESPECIALLY recommendations for apps or other monitoring systems to use during the process of advancing appliance/jaw, prior to a second sleep test.
Find an ENT doctor who accepts my insurance who is willing to help me (UARS). I’m even checking outsie of my state (MO) which has no one I have been able to find who will treat me.
Loose 10 lbs to see if it can help me enough to get by until I find a doctor.
Thank you for the valuable information. I am one of the expert deniers, despite experiencing so many of the problems you described. After reaching the point of thinking “my life would be so much better if I didn’t have to deal with the whole sleep thing”. I have finally after two previous failed attempts with CPAP and BiPAP (3-4 months each) have scheduled to get a new sleep study and then determine a plan of action from there.