Treating Sleep Apnea With CPAP

The standard is called a cpap continuous positive airway pressure. This is a device that goes over the mouth or the nose and mouth or just the nose, and helps force air in when you under breathe at night. So it's a little machine that's they used to be really kind of big and noisy. Now they're much more compact than we traveled with. I wore one once because I had a spinal surgery. It was made my mouth dry and my face was kind of sore. And it went away fortunately, because I had the surgery that my neck healed up, but it was unpleasant. So I'd be one of the people that didn't like to wear it. We know that of the 1 out of 4 people that do know they have sleep apnea, only 1 out of 3 of those actually get treated. So the incidence of treating sleep apnea is very low. When it is treated, it's generally with CPAP.