Re:Regular afternoon naps linked to improved cognitive function
by still_grokking on Sunday January 31, 2021 @02:54PM
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Sounds like an experience of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis#Threat_hyper-v...
As one falls asleep one loses the ability to voluntary breath. This can cause sensations of suffocating and resulting in panic if experienced when still conscious.
Re:Regular afternoon naps linked to improved cognitive function
by orand on Monday February 01, 2021 @12:32AM
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Yep, bi-pap is the intermediate machine that insurance protocols force you to try and fail on before they’ll approve the machine that actually works for your condition: ASV (Adaptive Servo Ventilation). It’s crazy expensive if you buy it new, especially if through a DME vendor. But you can buy them used with minimal hours on them for $900 or so, which is what I did. It actually works for me.
In addition, the therapy they recommended (bi-pap or something like that, basically a two-way assisted breathing machine) did absolutely nothing for me.
What finally helped was a min dose of an SSRI, which I started for totally unrelated reasons. Guess it was anxiety, never got any confirmation from any doctor that this is a known presentation of it, but swear to God literally two days on the stuff made me sleep easy with no breathing problems whatsoever. After six months I got off and once the withdrawal symptoms broke (real bad in my case, which is super weird for a min dose, but :shrug:) I've never had the problem again.