h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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Traveller in Time reading the full name as plain text
"Well, who does not?
Chronic (continued over time) Obstructive Pulmanary Disease

Guess you are diagnosed with this?
to hear such thing. Just this morning managed to overtake some guys half my age cycling uphill. While cycling I always give enough to arrive 'out of breath', though in minutes this has changed into just wet. "

Actually was first diagnosed with COPD back in Dec. 2007.

My original cpap machine from that period finally gave up the ghost early this year and I've been breaking in a new machine the past several months.

The most noticeable effect after the first 6 months with the cpap machine, back in 2008, was that my blood changed color, going from charcoal black to bright red, and energy levels improved correspondingly.




Main reason I'm currently collecting info is that I'm currently trying to talk 2legs into getting himself checked out for cpap therapy on account of his chronic insomnia.

Sometimes the solution to a problem like that is deceptively simple.




Among other conditions cpap therapy can improve, the therapy has recently been introduced for treatment of altitude sickness.

In a way, it reminds me of Robert A. Heinlein's respirator masks used in his scifi juvenile novel, "Red Planet", partly inspired, I think, by his wife's problem with a life-threatening altitude sickness problem, a real life motif that comes up repeatedly in Heinlein's science fiction.

Oh yes, one of the reasons I posted the link here was because its easy to move the link from h2g2 on Firefox to my Android desktop, while it proved impossible to do it directly from Chrome, though I could have probably done it throug Google Drive or Dropbox

Traveller in Time partly releaved
"It may be a solution for 2legs indeed. . .
Although I have always my hesitations in giving ay kind of medcal advice Besides 'drink water'

Transferring links (or even raw data) using Hootoo. I used to do that, be it <!-- --> commented out in entries . "

Meanwhile, on the copd and cpap therapy, if they'd offered me medications for that at the time, I would probably have resisted.

Since the therapy was only breathing air at somewhat elevated pressure, I accepted and it proved immediately effective for my insomnia, with steadily, but slowly, improving daytime energy levels over the next several months.

The new machine I got recently is an improvement over the original one.

The night time breathing masks can still use some improvement though.

Traveller in Time searching for alternatives
"A helmet like the classic divers equipment. Hmm the idea is to sleep with it.
A tent/ pressurising the entire room. Might be more pleasant though a little inpractical.

Perhaps somewhere halfway, a tent over the head end of the bed? "

Since the principle is to inflate the bronchial passàges with a slight over-pressure in order to allow easier passage of air to the lungs, anything much beyond nose and mouth coverage can defeat the purpose.

Its essential that the throat be in a slightly lower pressure.

My gripes about breathing apparatus have to do with downright clumsy and juvenile ergomomics.

I had high hopes for the science of ergonomics after ther successes of the first generation of personal computers turned typing from something torturous to something painless, but the discipline apparently isn't catching on and even computers are losing ground with touch screens.