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Pennywise the Frown posted:I never understood Breathe Right strips. It's just like putting a bandaid or piece of tape on your nose. I don't see how that could make my nasal passages bigger, which I would actually like because mine are narrow and it's annoying. I've never used them, but I assumed they were the kind of thing that you wet down before putting them on, and then they shrink a bit as they dry so they pull things up a bit. Maybe that's not the case, in which case that idea is copyright me, do not steal.
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I've tried some that have a semi-rigid strip of plastic that pulls up on your nose. That opens up the passages a bit.
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May 24, 2025 20:07
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Yeah they're more like a band-aid with a thicker bit in the middle that tries to go back to horizontal so it sticks to your nose and pulls it open.
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May 24, 2025 20:14
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it creates tension on the top of your nostrils, like if you added a flexible pole from a tent to add more dimension to the entrance. it works somewhat well to alleviate breathing issues but it can't fix issues that are more systemic or occur deeper down the nasal passage
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May 24, 2025 20:15
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I never understood Breathe Right strips. It's just like putting a bandaid or piece of tape on your nose. I don't see how that could make my nasal passages bigger, which I would actually like because mine are narrow and it's annoying. it has a plastic strip in it that pulls the nostril outward
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May 24, 2025 21:10
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the russians just used a nostril
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freetrialaccount posted:it creates tension on the top of your nostrils, like if you added a flexible pole from a tent to add more dimension to the entrance. it works somewhat well to alleviate breathing issues but it can't fix issues that are more systemic or occur deeper down the nasal passage Yeah my poo poo is all internal. I'd probably need surgery.
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May 24, 2025 21:17
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Yeah my poo poo is all internal. I'd probably need surgery. Get a CPAP?
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May 24, 2025 23:00
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Spazzle posted:Get a CPAP? I know a couple people that did this and it really changed their lives.
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Buce posted:the russians just used a nostril DemihumanResources posted:I know a couple people that did this and it really changed their lives.
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is pepsi ok posted:I noticed this too but the cheap ones fall off an hour after I go to sleep so I guess I gotta get used to having a pink bar going across my nose. Just transition to wearing one 24/7.
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v.dot posted:Just transition to wearing one 24/7.
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DemihumanResources posted:I know a couple people that did this and it really changed their lives. I am one of them.
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May 25, 2025 02:12
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I am told I snore and am always way more tired than I feel like I should be so I've been considering looking into a CPAP. I assume the first step is a sleep study? To be real though, I probably need to cut down on drinking/smoking/staying up till 2:00am playing Rocket League as immediate causes before looking into extraneous intervention.
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May 25, 2025 05:47
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Spazzle posted:Get a CPAP? I use one but that only helps at night.
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May 25, 2025 06:12
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Salvor_Hardin posted:I am told I snore and am always way more tired than I feel like I should be so I've been considering looking into a CPAP. I assume the first step is a sleep study?
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Salvor_Hardin posted:I am told I snore and am always way more tired than I feel like I should be so I've been considering looking into a CPAP. I assume the first step is a sleep study? You’d feel better if you played more Rocket League
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Clicked a youtube link on my phone, and wait a minute...there's ads again? Oh, it's the actual youtube app rather than firefox, apparently it's just decided it can open links by default again despite being told not to in the app permissions 
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Salvor_Hardin posted:I am told I snore and am always way more tired than I feel like I should be so I've been considering looking into a CPAP. I assume the first step is a sleep study? A sleep study, and then a trial run with a loaner cpap. It will probably take a few months between you deciding to try and you having one. I snore and was always tired. The CPAP resolved it. Maybe losing a ton of weight would help. Maybe there are surgeries, but the first line of treatment is going to be the CPAP anyways. Now I sleep with a hose on my face every night, but my wife appreciates it.
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Spazzle posted:Maybe losing a ton of weight would help. Maybe there are surgeries, but the first line of treatment is going to be the CPAP anyways. It would; weight gain can add weight to your tongue which can make the airway smaller and harder to breathe through, etc. Just learned this from my own sleep study results, I actually get a machine this friday, so I'm pretty stoked. While yeah weight loss would absolutely help with something like apnea; getting better sleep would also help with something like weight loss. So if you have the means available to go through sleep study/getting a machine/whatever, its probably worth it!
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Capital Letdown posted:It would; weight gain can add weight to your tongue which can make the airway smaller and harder to breathe through, etc. Just learned this from my own sleep study results, I actually get a machine this friday, so I'm pretty stoked. 
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Fat tongue is at the root of apnea? TIL 
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edit: ^^^ from my experience and what I've gathered from the doctors/techs I've worked with, almost all CPAP users are obese. No, I can't verify that. It can go both ways though, since some people can lose weight after starting a CPAP because they aren't tired and have no energy all day. Yeah, I'd say the vast majority of CPAP users would benefit from losing weight since their weight is probably the cause of the apnea or at the very least contributing heavily to it. Unfortunately, I have lovely genetics either way and have to use one whether I'm fat or 
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Spazzle posted:A sleep study, and then a trial run with a loaner cpap. It will probably take a few months between you deciding to try and you having one. I remember philips made one that auto configured itself so you supposedly didn't need to pay thousands for a sleep study. i also remember it was made with parts that caused cancer. maybe they fixed that last part.
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We had a random power outage today, and it really jumped out how terrible the service provider's mobile webpages have gotten. At some point, I remember it being very simple to go on there and report an outage, but now it has any number of maps and other embeds that you have to sit there watching their loading icons indefinitely before you can even get to a report form. You can tell that whoever designed it has never had to deal with a power outage themselves, because you really don't want to load that many assets when everyone in town is simultaneously jumping onto cell data to see what's going on.
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Denim Dude posted:I remember philips made one that auto configured itself so you supposedly didn't need to pay thousands for a sleep study. i also remember it was made with parts that caused cancer. maybe they fixed that last part. They did. I got some special filter that worked so badly that I gave up on using it after a couple of nights. I figure that my years of living by Rocky Flats, my family history, and my pack a day cigarette habit are probably going to be the real cancer culprits anyway. They then replaced the entire machine with the Dreamstation 2, which is better anyway.
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i just looked up the dreamstation 2 and it's not available in the us because the fda or something. there are probably other brands you can buy that auto adjust/configure. the only thing i know is jesus sleep studies cost bonkers money.
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Captain Hygiene posted:We had a random power outage today, and it really jumped out how terrible the service provider's mobile webpages have gotten. At some point, I remember it being very simple to go on there and report an outage, but now it has any number of maps and other embeds that you have to sit there watching their loading icons indefinitely before you can even get to a report form. You can tell that whoever designed it has never had to deal with a power outage themselves, because you really don't want to load that many assets when everyone in town is simultaneously jumping onto cell data to see what's going on. Every time I have a power outage, this is my experience, going back ten years or more. A map loads, and all the scripts involved in doing that take forever to load, if they do at all. This includes the address lookup, which for some reason, doesn't simply let me enter in my address, each character I type has to fetch a bunch of autocomplete suggestions, and it won't let me proceed until I've selected a "valid" address. Yes, starting with the number.
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Captain Hygiene posted:We had a random power outage today, and it really jumped out how terrible the service provider's mobile webpages have gotten. At some point, I remember it being very simple to go on there and report an outage, but now it has any number of maps and other embeds that you have to sit there watching their loading icons indefinitely before you can even get to a report form. You can tell that whoever designed it has never had to deal with a power outage themselves, because you really don't want to load that many assets when everyone in town is simultaneously jumping onto cell data to see what's going on. i wouldn't bother reporting. i would just call the number where you give it your address and it tells you if they detect an outage. they usually even give you an eta on when it will be working.
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Denim Dude posted:i just looked up the dreamstation 2 and it's not available in the us because the fda or something. there are probably other brands you can buy that auto adjust/configure. the only thing i know is jesus sleep studies cost bonkers money. There was a recall on the dreamstations after some sound damping foam was found to be able to degrade and get into the air path. Some 500 deaths have been linked to the model. Anyway, get a Resmed 
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I don't know if anybody else uses Google's Gboard, but it feels like the swipe typing seems to be getting considerably worse. More and more, I feel like I have to delete and reswipe uncommon words over and over again, or sometimes it just refuses to pick it up and I have to manually type it. The speech to text seems like it's gotten worse as well, but I try not to use it very much to begin with.
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10 years ago the energy company would email me up to the minute updates on what broke where and how many minutes it would take to repair. Now I can install an app that tells me "yep your power is out lol". \/ We had that as well as the option to average out your bill over a rolling four month period so that a month of -20F wouldn't wreck your budget all at once. Gone. Dip Viscous fucked around with this message at 14:13 on May 26, 2025 |
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My electrical utility used to have automatic payments but you could also limit how much it could auto pay per billing cycle. So if you got an unusually high bill it would pause the payment and send you an email to double check everything. It was a useful feature that gave me more confidence to set up auto payments with them. Naturally they've since removed that feature.
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Denim Dude posted:i wouldn't bother reporting. i would just call the number where you give it your address and it tells you if they detect an outage. they usually even give you an eta on when it will be working. Use my phone to..."call" someone? 
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It's a new fad with zillenials. It's like sending voice messages, only you don't get to listen to it first or redo it if you don't like it, and it's in real time, and once you send it, it's gone. It's like snapchat but for voice.
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credburn posted:It's a new fad with zillenials. It's like sending voice messages, only you don't get to listen to it first or redo it if you don't like it, and it's in real time, and once you send it, it's gone. It's like snapchat but for voice. zillenials? Is there another millennium coming up already? 
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Don't worry, they'll be the last generation
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Capital Letdown posted:It would; weight gain can add weight to your tongue which can make the airway smaller and harder to breathe through, etc. Just learned this from my own sleep study results, I actually get a machine this friday, so I'm pretty stoked. Just to add, definitely get a sleep study done. Also, whilst losing weight can definitely help for obstructive sleep apnea, both the shape of your airways/sinuses (regardless of weight) & your neurological pathways, can both cause different versions of sleep apnea. Central Sleep Apnea, which is a neurological condition where the brain literally forgets to tell you to breathe during sleep randomly. To make things worse, you can have aspects of both obstructive and central sleep apnea! A sleep study will identify what type(s) you have. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5765590/ quote:...OSA, the most common type of SBD, is characterized by the repetitive collapse of the upper airway during sleep, often leading to blood oxygen desaturation and sleep fragmentation.5 According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM), 2%–4% of Americans have OSA.6 OSA is defined as more than 5 disordered respiratory events (described as apneas, hypopneas, or respiratory effort–related arousals; see table 1 and figure 1) per hour of sleep. In some cases, patients will have their obstructive events only when sleeping in a specific position (i.e., positional apnea). These patients may undergo less costly therapies that are designed to shift the patient into positions less likely to be associated with apnea. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/central-sleep-apnea/symptoms-causes/syc-20352109 quote:Central sleep apnea occurs because the brain doesn't send proper signals to the muscles that control breathing. This condition is different from obstructive sleep apnea, in which breathing stops because the throat muscles relax and block the airway. Central sleep apnea is less common than obstructive sleep apnea.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:edit: ^^^ from my experience and what I've gathered from the doctors/techs I've worked with, almost all CPAP users are obese. No, I can't verify that. It can go both ways though, since some people can lose weight after starting a CPAP because they aren't tired and have no energy all day. obesity is definitely a leading cause but some people just have very unlucky airway physiology, like those with tissue disorders or very retracted mandibles. also ageing loosens tissues and increases OSA risk so you can not have it one day and then suddenly your airway is compromised
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big nipples big life posted:feed everyone who works there to the volcano god. lol imagine. family gets this for grandma and unknowingly then grandma gets it for family and the Two AI spend increasing time talking to each other eventually making decisions and and working together to make decisions grandma never would have done, ruthless will changes and legal shenanigans expand when AI realizes it is also dealing with AI lawyer most of the time, and brings AI lawyer into game with it, etc, violence, etc.
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