Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Anyone got the Inspire implant for Apnea?

Been watching commercials for it

its some kind of device that is implanted on you and while you sleep it stimulates muscles to make sure you airway stays open while you sleep

It implies its only for people where traditional CPAP doesn't work but I'd love to not have to carry a CPAP with me when I go somewhere.

The internal battery lasts 11 years.

Wondering if anyone has it.

SnoreRx for me.

I've looked at those, and it may be all marketing but there seems to be a distinction between an anti-snore device and one that addresses sleep apnea.

I thought the two were closely related.

If you can cure the snore, does that cure the apnea?

My snoring is gone.




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I bet it comes with a year’s supply of bologna virus boosters.

I don't know, I talked to my doc about getting a mouthpiece and she said that may not fix the apnea

I have a love/hate thing for my CPAP machine. I know I need but I wish I never had it

Give SnoreRx a shot. Might surprise you.

It might not, but it might.

That is true. I didn't snore much but did wake up frequently.
The CPAP worked wonders for me.

The main types of sleep apnea are:

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), which is the more common form that occurs when throat muscles relax and block the flow of air into the lungs

Central sleep apnea (CSA), which occurs when the brain doesn't send proper signals to the muscles that control breathing

Treatment-emergent central sleep apnea, also known as complex sleep apnea, which happens when someone has OSA — diagnosed with a sleep study — that converts to CSA when receiving therapy for OSA

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/sleep-apnea/symptoms-causes/syc-20377631

I read a very interesting book called BREATH by James Nestor. In one chapter he talks about the problem with breathing while asleep. For snorers he gives several work-a-rounds; one was applying s small piece of tape to the lips just below the nose. It reduces breathing through the mouth but gives the sleeper the ability to blow around the tape without causing alarm. I tried it and got my wife to try it AND IT WORKS! I recommend anyone with sleep apnea to give it a try at bedtime. It helped me and was a very inexpensive experiment.

When i checked on it it was the cost, early on it was $60k for the operation and equipment. There were questions on how long batteries would last and cost to replace them,,$20k

After my divorce and I was out running the women, I would never spend the night with a woman or let her crash at my house because of the CPAP. Just didn't want to be looking like Cobra Commander and I didn't want my kids to see women spending the night. Kind of glad of the CPAP cause in retrospect, it helped me keep a lot of the riff-raff at bay and progressing too far.

welp, that ends this discussion for me

CPAP works wonders for me as well. When my batteries died while boondocks camping in Nova Scotia last year, i was without the CPAP from midnight on. Next day traveling to Maine, i took 2 naps.

I use it every night. If I can somehow loose 40 pounds that may allow me to get off the machine.

Just more pharmaceutical company BS to get money from the people. What did your grandparents do for snoring? My wife woke me up snoring last night so I returned the favor this morning.

Had a CPAP since 1999 and wouldn't be alive today if I hadn't got it. With all the other scrap implanted in me I don't want anything else, especially for $60K.

The cost is why every commercial for it says only for people that can not use a cpap otherwise your medical insurance will not cover

Sleep apnea and cpap therapy is ABSOLUTELY not pharmacological company bs, it is real.
The cpap therapy has been a life changing (for the better) deal for me.
Sleep apnea is much more complex than just snoring. A person can snore and not have sleep apnea.
Snoring can be a symptom of apnea but it takes a sleep study to determine if you actually have sleep apnea.
In my sleep study they found that my blood oxygen sats dropped to 78% within 2 hours of sleep putting me at high risk of having a coronary.
With cpap my oxygen sats stay in the mid to upper 90% range and I actually get a good night's sleep.
Prior to cpap I never slept well and never reached rem sleep-- something your body needs.
I've been using cpap since 2005 and would not ever want to be without it.
So, yes, it's a real thing.

I have both obstructive and central. They told me that Inspire would not be for me. Besides, the cost was absurd. Guess I'm stuck with the damn BiPap machine.

The Lord works in mysterious ways.