#CPAP Breathing Machine

[trenchgardens-ooc-ooc-ooc-ooc]

they should make a breathing that isnt hard.

[naomiknight-17]

Jon has a very loud snore and we finally got him a (rental) CPAP and he's trying it out right now

I legitimately can't tell if he's sleeping or not because he's so quiet. And I don't want to disturb him so I won't check

But I think... maybe... it is helping?!

[pondslime]

just a lil post 2 say that @mercytheater (my HOW writing inspo sideblog) is now v much active in case u wanna see the machinations of my deranged mind post-rewatch

[globalunitedmedicalsuppliesinc]

Breathing comfortably shouldn’t be a luxury, especially for those managing chronic respiratory conditions. Whether it’s oxygen therapy or ventilator support, having the right equipment can make daily life more manageable. At Global United Medical Supplies, Inc., patients and caregivers can find essential tools for respiratory care—alongside dependable service and guidance. You’ll find a trusted partner ready to help you choose what works best for your needs at our medical supply store in Brooklyn, New York.

[motheyes]

6:30 am and i’m awake yay!

[steampunk-swift-arrow]

Ugh getting used to a cpap machine is soooo hardddd

[bmcmedical]

Mouth Breathing: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions

Introduction: Mouth breathing, though common, can have various underlying causes and may lead to several health issues. Understanding the reasons behind mouth breathing, its detrimental effects, and potential solutions can be crucial for overall well-being.

Causes of Mouth Breathing:

Nasal Congestion: Blocked nasal passages due to allergies, sinus issues, or anatomical abnormalities may force individuals to breathe through their mouths.

Habitual Breathing: Some people develop a habit of breathing through their mouths, especially during sleep.

Structural Issues: Conditions like a deviated septum or enlarged tonsils and adenoids can contribute to mouth breathing.

Consequences of Mouth Breathing:

Dry Mouth and Throat: Mouth breathing can result in dryness of the oral and throat tissues, leading to discomfort and an increased risk of oral health issues.

Dental Problems: Prolonged mouth breathing may contribute to dental problems, including gingivitis and malocclusion.

Reduced Oxygen Intake: Breathing through the mouth may reduce the efficiency of oxygen intake, potentially impacting overall respiratory function.

Sleep Disruption: Mouth breathing during sleep can contribute to snoring and sleep apnea, affecting the quality of rest.

Aesthetic Consequences: Chronic mouth breathing may contribute to facial changes, potentially leading to an "adenoid facies" appearance, characterized by an open-mouth posture and alterations in facial structure, which some consider less aesthetically pleasing.

Solutions for Mouth Breathing:

Identify and Treat Underlying Causes: Address nasal congestion or structural issues through medical intervention, such as allergy management, surgery, or other appropriate treatments.

Breathing Exercises: Practice nasal breathing exercises to gradually shift the breathing pattern from mouth to nose.

Orthodontic Intervention: In some cases, orthodontic treatments may be recommended to correct dental issues associated with mouth breathing.

Hydration and Oral Care: Stay well-hydrated and practice good oral hygiene to mitigate dry mouth and reduce the risk of dental problems.

Devices to Aid in Resolving Mouth Breathing:

Nasal Strips: External nasal strips can help improve nasal airflow, reducing the need for mouth breathing.

Mouth Taping: Some individuals find relief by using specialized tape to gently encourage closed-mouth breathing during sleep.

Orthodontic Devices: Dentists may recommend appliances, such as palatal expanders, to address dental issues related to mouth breathing.

Positive Airway Pressure (PAP) Devices: Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) or Bi-Level Positive Airway Pressure (BiPAP) machines can be beneficial, especially for sleep-related mouth breathing issues.

Conclusion: Understanding the causes and consequences of mouth breathing is essential for implementing effective solutions. By addressing underlying issues, practicing appropriate breathing techniques, and considering the use of specific devices, individuals can work towards reducing or eliminating the negative effects of mouth breathing and promoting better overall health. Consulting with healthcare professionals is crucial for personalized guidance and treatment.

[eatprayjop]

I’m so tired

[gingerhaole]

In January 2021, I got sick. I tested negative for Covid, but I assumed it had to be that, given the severity and duration. It lasted something crazy like four weeks, and after that I had this crunchy lingering cough and a host of other issues that just never went away, namely incredible fatigue.

I was always tired, never woke feeling rested, and started napping more and more, for hours at a time, sometimes three naps a day. I would sit to work on art and just tip sideways on the sofa. I'd be so tired I'd lay on the floor for a moment and be out instantly. My memory was failing me more and more, and the brain fog was constant. I felt really, clearly stupider, and the people in my life started to resent how much I slept. It was ruining my life.

I figured this was long Covid. My doctor treated me for post-nasal drip, allergies, mild hypothyroidism, vitamin deficiencies, depression. I ate better, exercised, got enough sleep. Nothing made me less tired.

Finally I saw a sleep specialist, answered a lot of questions, and did a sleep study at home. Found out I have pretty severe sleep apnea -- I will stop breathing roughly 30 times an hour. She hooked me up with a CPAP machine -- a nose snorkel -- and it became my new best friend. It's actually pretty comfortable, quiet as a whisper, and I finally get enough oxygen when I sleep. I sleep like the dead, not a moment of unrest until the morning.

The trouble was, I was still tired. Still falling asleep randomly, still losing motor function when drowsy. My sleep specialist diagnosed me with narcolepsy.

Apparently sometimes, when you get the flu and it hits you just right, it can trigger narcolepsy. Way back in January 2021, what I thought was Covid was a nasty narcolepsy activator that's been fucking with me ever since.

My doc put me on a stimulant specifically for narcolepsy, and it does work, but it's not a miracle cure. I'm still tired, but I fall asleep a lot less frequently, and I can fight through it. I told my doc that I still got very tired occasionally, and she said, "Sometimes a nap can help you get through the rest of the day. It's okay to nap." Being given that permission after years of feeling guilty and ashamed of sleeping so much made me cry on the spot.

It's a work in progress. I feel like I have my brain back, at least. But if you find yourself with symptoms like mine, see if you can ask your doctor about doing a sleep study. I think narcolepsy is more common than we think, and you don't have to feel like you're doomed to it.

[cpapvendor]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: ResMed airsense 10 Autoset

[wheeloffortune-design]

ok ok here's a very specific trick i found for those who are adhd and have sleep apnea

(and like me, suck at refilling the distilled water in their CPAP machine, so they end up never refilling it and end up with a dry nose and get constant nosebleeds)

i did say it was very specific

so where i am they sell distillated water only in 4L format, and pouring the huge bottle into the tiny humidifer section of the cpap was so awkward that my brain just decided to put a mental block on it, and i could spend weeks breathing dry air through my nose.

but then i got one of those little water dispensers from the dollar store, placed it next to my bed, and now filling the humidifier is so easy there is zero stress related to it.

it's so stupid and it works.

anyway if you have adhd, instead of going against your brain, find a stupid workaround. make your life easier.

[kedreeva]

There are good things in this world still.

Today, I held a handful of weanling mice in my hands. There was one big, pudgy little potato of a mouse, eyes barely open, who looked like a toasted marshmallow.

Today, my partner came home after being away for weeks on a job assignment. This is the first time he's slept next to me with a CPAP machine and it's so much quieter than I expected. He doesn't sound like he's gonna die every 5 seconds from not breathing, either, and it's amazing!!

Today, I finished cleaning up the house, so that Sark could come home to a clean house. It feels good for me, too.

There are good things left in this world, however small. This is your opportunity to reblog this and share your good things with each other, or check the notes if you need a reminder.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Hey, I think my mom might need a cpap machine (she snores like a buzzsaw, is constantly tired, and I swear I’ve heard her stop breathing while she naps). How can I convince her to get tested for one?

Bring up to her that you’ve heard her stop breathing while she sleeps and it scared you and you think she should see a doctor about that. You can’t force her to go to the doctor but if she does go and tells the doctor her kid said she stops breathing in her sleep the doctor will probably bring up sleep apnea.

[snailmail444]

Bachelor Head Cannons

18+ 🌱 NSFW 🌱 MDNI

Head cannons for all the bachelors masturbation habits under the cut! Send me asks if you want to see more head cannons from me 💞

Harvey-

💚 Harvey spends so much time antsy and anxious, poor guy.

💚 So when he’s getting himself off he needs a gentle touch. Literally and figuratively.

💚 He has a few favorite videos he likes of porn, which he goes back to when he’s getting off.

💚 Professional porn takes him out of it. He’s so worried about if everything is consensual and comfortable and compensated he’s not horny anymore. Even when he can get past that, he just isn’t into the fake porn premises.

💚 Do you really expect him to believe she’s stuck in that washing machine? Get real.

💚 Harvey can really get into it when it’s amateur, and the couple seems like they’re genuinely enjoying each other. Giggling, bumping the camera, whispered “I love you’s.”

💚 Uses a lot of quality lube. As a doctor, he’s going to take proper care of his body. Especially his dick. The last thing he wants is a friction burn on his junk.

💚 Goes nice and slow. He doesn’t want to rush himself when he’s working to relax, so it’s not a race for him.

💚 Eyes fluttering, cheeks flushed, hitching breath when he’s close.

💚 Can only get off when the people in the video have. Cums with a sigh, leaning back in complete satisfaction.

💚 Takes a long shower after and gets excellent rest. It really helps alleviate his stress, so he sleeps like a baby.

Elliott-

❤️ When I tell You this man makes it an EVENT!

❤️ He’s breaking out the candles. He’s got a bubble bath run. He’s got a glass of red wine.

❤️ Elliott is first and foremost a man of luxury. So when it comes to taking care of himself? He is taking CARE of himself.

❤️ We’re talking a long edging session that starts in the tub and ends in his bed. He’s so coy that he even teases himself. Gets him worked UP!

❤️ This is an erotic novel kinda guy if there ever was one. I mean come on. You KNOW he’s reading those flowing sex scenes with flowery language to get off to.

❤️ One hand holding his dick the other holding his book.

❤️ It doesn’t matter if he’s alone, he is talking. Elliott is a wellspring of words, so they’re flowing. Praise and curses and sweet names, all of it. He gets so wrapped up in the fantasy that it feels real to him, and that’s his way to engage with it.

❤️ He’s a romantic, but the stuff that really gets him off is hot and desperate and needy. The love interests of his novel devouring each other after a slow burn or a long break. The passion is where it’s at for him.

❤️ Secretly kinda loves it filthy. Chaste and loving is good and satisfying, but it doesn’t do a ton for him sexually. He wants his sex sloppy, spitty, and utterly human.

❤️ Probably gets off the least out of all the bachelors simply because it’s a whole process for him. He wants to enjoy it with unabashed hedonism.

❤️ Sometimes he’ll eat fruit while he’s doing it just to engage all his senses.

Alex-

🤎 Alex would absolutely be a morning jerker if Evelyn and George weren’t up at the crack of dawn.

🤎 Man wakes up rock hard and would love to do something about it, but since Evelyn knocks on his door for breakfast at a routine seven am, he has to will it away.

🤎 The tradeoff, though, makes it worth the wait. Both of his lovely grandparents are hard of hearing, go to bed early, and George has a loud CPAP machine.

🤎 So when I tell you Alex can be as loud as he wants at night. He can be as loud as he wants. Unless you’re physically shaking his grandparents, they’re sleeping through it.

🤎 Which is a good thing, because Alex is a mouthy guy. Moans, groans, curses, whines, whimpers, you name it. If he has a hand on his dick, he’s making noise.

🤎 It’s a little old fashioned, but Alex has sexy magazines stashed between his mattress and box spring. Video porn is overwhelming to him—he doesn’t know what to search, he just wants some eye candy—so this is the best option he can think of.

🤎 He’s not very fussy, honestly. Low maintenance kinda jerker. As long as he’s looking at somebody he finds attractive, he’s gonna get off.

🤎 And Alex is such a secret romantic, he’s thinking about sweet, tender sex with somebody he would love a whole lot. His hand takes the same rhythm he imagines he’d use fucking slow and deep.

🤎 This is the way that Alex ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper. Man is whining as he strokes himself through his orgasm.

🤎 Has a few tissues he uses to clean up and then passes directly out. Rinse and repeat three times/week.

Shane-

💙 Okay it depends.

💙 If he’s still drinking he doesn’t jerk off that much because he’s got chronic whiskey dick.

💙 BUT. After that? Oh boy.

💙 Shane’s surprised by his own libido when he’s sober. It’s, like, all the time. He thinks maybe it’s because he didn’t get off for so long that he’s making up for lost time.

💙 He gets a surprising amount of privacy in the old ranch house, which he has never been more thankful for. It doesn’t hurt that Marnie snore pretty loud and Jas sleeps like the dead, so most of the night is free to him.

💙 However. Some nights it’s just not feasible. Cough, cough, thanks Lewis.

💙 Luckily, Shane’s got his secret spot. The dock never gets any foot traffic, literally ever. He absolutely will go out there to take care of himself if he needs to.

💙 Big lotion guy. He needs it especially because his hands are rough from all the work he does with them. The callouses feel good if he’s got enough lubricant, though.

💙 Can go either way on porn. Sometimes he likes to watch a good video of what he’s in the mood for, but he doesn’t need it.

💙 He gets off more on memories than anything else. Some of his best fucks are vivid enough in his mind he almost feels like he’s back there when he gets off on it.

💙 And if he has a crush on somebody? Man doesn’t need much. Getting off thinking about how they looked on their knees the other day, about how his cum would look on their face. In the moment he has no shame in thinking about the object of his affections. That’ll come later.

💙 Bites his wrist to keep himself quiet. Not because anybody can hear him, but because he gets embarrassed about the noises he makes and how into it he gets.

💙 Gets desperate for release towards the end. Bucking his hips up and fucking his fist until he cums over his tense stomach. His face is complete bliss, and typically he forgets to muffle that last moan anymore because he’s too caught up in his pleasure.

💙 Post nut clarity hits him a little too hard sometimes. He feels a lot of guilt and shame he’s still working through. Therapy’s helping, though.

Sam-

🩷 Poor Sammy never gets any proper alone time. It’s not the easiest for him to just get off whenever the urge comes on him.

🩷 Which is incredibly unfortunate, because the urge comes on him…often, to say the least.

🩷 Let’s be real. It’s probably once a day, sometimes twice. Man’s sex drive is insane. Truly just insatiable.

🩷 But the walls of his house are paper thin, he has no lock on his door, and his mom and Vincent are always busting in. He only gets a shred of privacy in his shower, and even that’s difficult because he shares with Vincent. Hard to get off when his tiny fists are constantly pounding on the door.

🩷 So Sam can’t just jack it at a moments notice. He has to wait until everybody is asleep, because blessedly Jodi and Vince go to bed early, and Kent is usually in bed by ten pm sharp. Thank God for that military sense of routine.

🩷 As soon as it’s lights out, Sam’s got an earbud in and a hand in his boxers. He’s so desperate and needy by the end of the day that he has to bite his shirt to keep from moaning with relief.

🩷 Man adores porn. LOVES. Porn. He needs a visual aid for his fantasies, and some good audio doesn’t hurt his feelings.

🩷 Sweet Sam has a possessive streak. He tries to find videos where one of the people looks like whoever he’s into at the time, and he imagines it’s him fucking them.

🩷 And if the video has a good cumshot? He’s gone. Fucking wasted. His hand will slide feverishly up and down his cock until he’s cumming right along with them, the whole time imagining it’s him marking up his crush and making them his.

🩷 By the grace of Yoba he hasn’t been caught yet, but he’s always rushing because he’s paranoid somebody will find him with a hand around his dick or cum all over his abdomen.

Sebastian-

🖤 Unlike Sam, he has almost complete privacy the majority of the time.

🖤 Robin spared no expense on soundproofing their house, so nobody can hear anything unless they’re pressed up against his door.

🖤 And since nobody bothers him, and he’s got a sturdy lock, it’s never a problem. He can get off really whenever he wants to.

🖤 When he was in high school, it was all the time. If he had a second alone, he was probably jerking off.

🖤 Now though, it’s tapered off. He only has to get off once a week, maybe a few times if he’s really worked up about something.

🖤 And with his computer setup? He has a full Cinematic experience. Full screen, over-ear headphones, reclined back in his gamer chair. His dick pulled out of his boxers and his shirt rucked up to his chest. Sebastian is taking complete advantage of every luxury he has available to him.

🖤 Let’s be real. He’s an Only Fans kinda guy. Sebastian has specific tastes, and he likes the convenience of having content he likes ready and available. Plus, he’s not about to risk any viruses on his computer.

🖤 It doesn’t hurt that it’s more ethical that way. Sex work is real work, and deserves proper compensation, which he’s more than happy to give.

🖤 As for the content? We circle back to his specific tastes. He likes soft BDSM. No intense stuff, but the dirty talk aspect especially does it for him. Spanking or light choking are about as hardcore as he likes.

🖤 But the thing that’s guaranteed to get him off? Oral. Every single time. He loves to go down on people—he’s borderline obsessed with it, actually. It’s something he can’t personally put his finger on (it’s called an oral fixation buddy), but he cums so hard thinking about leaving purpling hickies along thighs and using his tongue to get his partner off.

🖤 And since he prioritizes heavily on having a clean space, he has everything ready to clean himself up. Especially important since he cums a lot.

[galaxywarp]

also I’m really really really glad that I’m fully adjusted to using my CPAP machine. it was a bit of a pain but being able to breathe in my sleep is so awesome. It’s so awesome to not have dreams about suffocating and not waking up every few hours sweaty and with my heart racing and more tired than when I started. Breathing in my sleep is so rad