My health improved by an order of magnitude after I was diagnosed with sleep apnea and sold a CPAP machine. It was well worth the expense.
I use it every night and always wake up feeling refreshed. Beforehand I used to wake up feeling like a truck had hit me in the night and I thought it was normal because I was waking at 6am to go to work. Was told that I stopped breathing 20 times an hour - which is pretty much the same as if the phone rang 20 times every hour, waking you up.
I've had to replace the mask once, I get it online since the clinic does charge a lot for replacements. It took about a week to get used to it fully, sometimes I'd awaken to find that I tore it off during the night. But that's not the case anymore.
My only complaint is that it feels like it dries out the moisture in my nostrils so I always make sure to wet them before falling asleep. Also, if I wake in the middle of the night to use the washroom I have to spend a while getting used to the air flow again.
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