YOU DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE ON A CPAP

You may have been given a few choices for treating your sleep apnea - a CPAP, an oral appliance that pulls your lower jaw/tongue forward, perhaps a referral to an ENT for nose/sinus surgery, lose weight, or to do nothing at all. What you likely were not told is that you can actually treat the root cause(s) of sleep apnea. You may not have been given the choice because conventional medicine looks at a conventional system of care - a pill, a machine, or a surgery to treat the symptom. When one understands the underpinnings that cause sleep apnea, then one can look for solutions to undo the disease rather than first-aid measures. Conventional treatments look to manage disease; functional therapies look at a solution or cure. A CPAP is fantastic for the patient looking for initially stabilizing and maintaining an airway, but it is not a long-term solution. CPAP is considered the gold standard of care in sleep medicine and it is often the long-term care recommendation by most sleep docs. Something to realize is that you are pumping humidified air into your lungs (maybe your stomach as well) so you can breathe, but it is not treating the source of the problem. Sleep apnea only gets worse with age and/or weight gain, despite the use of a traditional sleep oral appliance or CPAP.  A CPAP or a conventional oral sleep appliance is better than absolutely no treatment. And, despite compliance with a CPAP or an oral device, you may still feel exhausted because your breathing habits/muscle function/airway structure has not been helped and your flight-or-fight system has not been managed. When you have the option of a solution or cure, you can be well and thrive, rather than survive. At AirSync we are here to help get you the treatment and sleep that you deserve.

CPAP INTOLERANCE

Despite having a mask strapped to your face, CPAP intolerance generally arises from the inability to breathe well through the nose, maintain lip seal, and having the tongue suctioned lightly up to the palate. One must know how to breathe through the nose as well as be able to breathe through the nose for air to flow easily through the nasal passages.

If you are comfortable with your CPAP or would like to try to get better breathing and sleep with your CPAP, you can increase the effectiveness of the machine with nasal hygiene as well as oral myofunctional therapy. Come find out how!