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DIY Sleep Apnea Fix Update: What We’ve Learned

Essential Craftsman

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The host of Essential Craftsman shares his personal experience and updates on using mouth tape and nasal strips to manage sleep apnea.

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What people say. Recommended by viewers discussing mouth taping, nasal strips, and DIY approaches to improving sleep quality and oxygen levels.

ghostbrainalphain Hacker News • Recommends

On “Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety”

You can actually cut a little slit in the mouth tape, so that you won't panic. Breathing a straw sized amount of air through the mouth if you need to, will prevent suffocation anxiety, but also limit your mouth breathing enough that your nose does most of the work. Watch this guys two videos on a DIY CPAP. link to this video

Raloin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Poor Sleep Drove Me Insane, and My Long Path to Recovery”

I started getting sleep issues during the beginning of university and during a bodybuilding phase but I treated it as "that's what life is, you don't sleep. Welcome to adulthood." after growing up with an over weight and extreme snorer father who was very much on the stance of "shut up and be tired, that's what life is" By this point I was already getting to where it clearly wasn't normal and it's extremely affecting my life but I was so weak and exhausted that daily chores felt like I was carrying 20lbs weights on my arms. After years of broken sleep, it completely shipwrecked my schooling and gym routines. This lasted 3-4 years I thought it was backpain ruining my sleep, since I would wake…

linsomniacin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Mouth Taping”

…tape would up my "sleep score" a little, but again I haven't tried it. Essential Craftsman did say he tried the nasal strips and they increased his SpO2 a couple percent. I've tried them over the last week and while it seems easier to breathe through my nose with them, they didn't translate into any increased SpO2 over night according to my watch. link to this video…

linsomniacin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial”

Has anyone tried the "hostage tape" or similar to force breathing through your nose like Essential Craftsman discussed in his series of videos link to this video