I have severe obstructive sleep apnea -- am 6ft and 210. I wear a CPAP and now swear by it. A couple things to help those who try:
1) Make sure you have a CPAP machine with a water tank so the forced air is moist. For me, if the water runs out, that's when I wake up bc my nose dries.
2) Get a spray saline solution for your nose -- not Afrin or drugs (habit inducing) -- just simple and cheap Arm & Hammer Simply Saline.
3) Wear a shirt when you're in bed and put the hose under your shirt so it's hard to roll off.
4) Bonus -- sleep elevated.
Those are my best tips. If you can do the CPAP and suffer the awkwardness, you'll really feel so much better. First time it stuck, I woke up at 4:45 am fully rested and felt as if a heavy weight was lifted off me.
As for point 3, I've found that the especially silly looking one that works so that the tube "points out of your forehead" eliminates that problem in an even better way.
My dad used a CPAP for many years and was quite the evangelist for them due to how significantly it improved his quality of life. At one point, when trying to nudge him toward weight loss and diet changes for type 2 diabetes, I mentioned it may also help with his sleep apnea. He was adamant that the type of sleep apnea he had would exist no matter what and weight loss wouldn't help... apparently his doctor told him this. Fast forward 5 years, he ends up in a program for his diabetes that put him on a pretty extreme elimination diet which led to him losing a pretty significant amount of weight. During that time he kept having to turn the pressure on the CPAP down, until eventually even the lowest setting was too strong and he was able to get off the CPAP completely. For over a decade he talked about how happy that CPAP made him, he almost seemed proud of it. However, he got pretty emotional when he found out he was able to get off of it. As much as it may help, it is still a burden to need a machine to sleep.
I know it's an N of one, but it shows it can help and is worth a shot. Even if it doesn't completely resolve the sleep apnea, there are so many other additional benefits.
After an alert from my Apple Watch and a few extremely rough nights of sleep when my weight hit an all time high, I scheduled a sleep study for myself. It's 2-3 months out still, so I plan to lose what I can while I wait to see how much it can help. Even the first 10 lbs was a significant help and stopped the truly awful sleep I had for a week or two.
Hey Chris. . . given the novel nature of your product (it looks very sleek btw) and you're looking to gather feedback, maybe we can talk using askhumans.io to gather feedback at scale? also, many years ago, I worked on compressed air energy storage on the demand side and we looked at co-generation opportunities to drive the caes turbines. anyways, would love to connect.
It seems like the reporting is that two out of three objects are said not to be balloons. I don’t know of any terrestrial technology that can be that large (size of car) aloft for multiple hours/days that hovers. Am I correctly groking the news here?
No, you're not. The descriptions are consistent with these objects being balloons or dirugibles. The terrestrial technology that can keep a cylinder the size of a car afloat for days is called "hydrogen".
I don’t think this is correct… a thousand cubic feet of hydrogen is 68lbs of buoyancy at sea level.
A cylinder that was 20’ long, and 5’ in radius (which is a lot bigger than my minivan - would be about 1570 cubic feet.
That could lift about 100lbs at sea level… at flight level 400… that’s going to have to be a huge balloon to lift 100 lbs or the payload has to be tiny tiny - which is possible but I don’t think something the size of a car is adequate.
Your are dramatically underestimating the size of these things:
The Chinese high-altitude balloon shot down over the Atlantic off the coast of South Carolina over the weekend was 200 feet tall and carried a payload the size of a regional airliner, a U.S. Air Force general said in a briefing on Monday.
The balloon's superstructure and hardware weighed "in excess of a couple thousand pounds," said Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command.
I wouldn't make any conclusions yet given that they haven't recovered the wreckage yet.
That being said, ultralight glider technology is actually really good. It is plausible with ultralight materials you could build a car-sized thing, put it on some kind of solar-powered glider and keep it in the air for a long time.
pilot selection of aim9 over guns due to difficulty/risk of engagement is concerning. would really like recoverable intel, or at least some more detailed assessment prior to engagement.
I'm assuming this information is just not being released, but it begs for obvious scrutiny.
I say hover because the pentagon is saying the same object was seen twice in two days. . . The day before it was in Montana then 24 plus hours later in Michigan.
“A unidentified object has been shot down by U.S. forces over Lake Huron, according to the Department of Defense. The object appears to be the same object that had been detected over Montana a day earlier, said officials.“
"Hover" implies more directional control than a balloon would have, the ability to stay in one spot. So far all the descriptions are consistent with just regular floating.
Funny, we're literally launching a new project today that allows for distributed focus groups. We haven't changed over the DNS -- here's the Heroku link (https://opinion-graphs-website.herokuapp.com)
How we got here: for a while we had been struggling with breaking through on another project that user voice input to measure sentiment for office space.
Last week, we took a step back and thought that having a tool that could allow start-ups to ask opened ended questions where people could just "talk" and what they said is analyzed for sentiment would be valuable. So that's what we're building with OpinionGraphs. IMHO this is directly in the vein of PG's points about learning from users.
With whatever you're building, if you're interested in trying a new way to connect to users or targeted customers along the lines of PG's advice, please dm me or just leave a comment here and I'll reach out.
Ya financing in Mexico is a big challenge. We do offer a financing option, but not for the entire amount unfortunately. We are actively looking to partner with banks and funds to be able to offer longer financing options. Stay tuned!
