Taping my mouth (not a typo)
Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2019 5:02 pm
This is what I’m doing for two weeks, although my tape is a smaller piece that runs vertically.
https://www.everydayhealth.com/sleep/mo ... ter-sleep/
The nostril dilators are springy wings that fit in your nose and gently expand the nostrils open.
https://mutesnoring.com/
The first test is to see if just using these reveals anything. Some people can’t breathe with these (I can, while I’m awake, anyway), which means they have to go straight to the ENT.
Based on our first test (a thing I wore overnight that measured pulse and oxygen), I have only mild sleep apnea; the issues we are looking to correct have to do with the shape of the jaw and skull.
Modern skulls are very different from those even 100 years ago, and a lot of us are turning into mouth-breathers, especially when we sleep.
The Seattle protocol is a dental approach rather than a surgical or CPAP approach. There are six steps and about three months to the protocol, so we'll see how it plays. If none of it works, then he sends me to an ENT for evaluation for surgery or CPAP. I never thought I had a sleep issue so I doubt it gets that far.
One paper I read suggested that about half of today's ADD and ADHD teens and young adults would feel better if they would tape their mouths shut so they could nose-breathe all night, and then they could stay alert during the day.
https://www.everydayhealth.com/sleep/mo ... ter-sleep/
The nostril dilators are springy wings that fit in your nose and gently expand the nostrils open.
https://mutesnoring.com/
The first test is to see if just using these reveals anything. Some people can’t breathe with these (I can, while I’m awake, anyway), which means they have to go straight to the ENT.
Based on our first test (a thing I wore overnight that measured pulse and oxygen), I have only mild sleep apnea; the issues we are looking to correct have to do with the shape of the jaw and skull.
Modern skulls are very different from those even 100 years ago, and a lot of us are turning into mouth-breathers, especially when we sleep.
The Seattle protocol is a dental approach rather than a surgical or CPAP approach. There are six steps and about three months to the protocol, so we'll see how it plays. If none of it works, then he sends me to an ENT for evaluation for surgery or CPAP. I never thought I had a sleep issue so I doubt it gets that far.
One paper I read suggested that about half of today's ADD and ADHD teens and young adults would feel better if they would tape their mouths shut so they could nose-breathe all night, and then they could stay alert during the day.