Sean Combs got a sleep apnea diagnosis after his Apple Watch flagged something wrong. His AHI was 30, severe enough to need a CPAP machine. The first nights were rough: the mask was tight, air leaked when he opened his mouth, and breathing felt strange.
Come with me as I get my first sleep apnea CPAP machine. I know, can you move though, please? So I had an Apple Watch that was giving me alerts saying that I had sleep apnea. I took it to my doctor and she actually said, "No, we should get a sleep study. Those things are pretty accurate." I was surprised at that. So I did a sleep study. I got my head all wired up with electrodes and I got a call back from the sleep doctor who said, "You have severe sleep apnea," which shocked me and my wife because I don't snore. I thought that was a that's one of the signs of sleep apnea. Anyway, it turns out I scored a 30. There were 30 instances an hour where I stopped breathing for 10 seconds or more. So I went in to get my CPAP machine, and here is the process and a little bit of what it was like after on my first night.
Hello. What I do is grab that. Great.
Ah.
So we just want to make sure that— Oh yeah. You ready to try this? Okay, here we go. So it's gonna go to a pressure of 5 right now. Usually what happens when something—
Oh, that's so weird. I opened my mouth and—
Yeah.
That's so disturbing.
So that would be classified as a leak. That's so weird. Hmm, I don't like that at all.
Here it is, uh, walking back from the appointment now. Initial thoughts: it's weird. It's a weird feeling. So it's not quite as aggressive, the air pushing into your nose, as I thought until I opened my mouth. And I don't think I've ever had the experience of air coming out of my mouth without me exhaling, if that makes any sense, right? Because it's pushing air through my nose, and if I keep my mouth closed, then it goes into my lungs where it's supposed to go. I think. I'm not really sure how any of this works. But when you open your mouth, the air just goes whoosh. So it's weird. Anyway, we'll see what happens tonight. I feel like I have to learn to breathe again through this thing. That's not coming— that noise is not coming out of my lungs. I'll see how it is in the morning. Okay, this is actually 2 days later, um, so I've had it for 2 nights. These hurt. I don't know, maybe I'm doing it wrong. And if you have experience with these cars called nose pillows, by the way, which is great, um, you know, they just go up here. It's not— these don't hurt per se, the air doesn't hurt, but I think it's so tight against my head that it's like pushing really hard on my nose and that kind of hurts. And then if I make it looser, then there's no seal and the air just leaks through. So anyway, I'm sure one day it'll keep me alive and I'm grateful to have it. And I'm grateful that the sleep doctor and the sleep clinic and everything was covered under Canadian healthcare and all that jazz. Um, it's gonna take a while to get used to it. I don't know, maybe I'll give you another update years from now. Thanks for coming along.
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