How many people here suffer from sleep apnea and use a CPAP?

[NightRyder]

I'm not sure if it's called a CPAP machine across the world but I'm wondering how many people suffer from sleep apnea like myself and have to use this machine?

For those that are curious about sleep apnea it's a sleeping disorder where you stop breathing when you sleep due to a blocked airway. A sleep study is usually in order to determine the severity of it. I went through one about 10 years ago and was told I had server sleep apnea where I averaged stop breathing around 75+ times an hour. I ended up having the corrective surgery at a young age (13 or 14 I believe i was) where the took my adenoids, tonsils and my uvula (that flap of skin at the back of your throat the at dangles lol)

I then age a tonsil grow back which caused problems for me and iI had it removed in summer of 2010 where my surgeon had booked ANOTHER sleep study for me to make sure the sleep apnea had been fixed. Well this last study shown it had gotten worse and averaged about 90+ times an hour where I Stopped breathing.

So now I have to get a CPAP machine to sleep with so I won't stop breathing when I sleep. Again I'm just curious to as whom else in the community suffers from this and has to use this machine. I'm kind of scared I'll get all tangled in the tubes since I toss n turn and break this $1500 machine =(

[Rozi]

My friend has this! Sleeping in the same room as her is a pain waa but hers doesn't sound as bad as yours as she just has to have like a de-duster in the room (a ventilator or something idk) and make sure her room isn't dusty