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CPAP Issues – Weight Loss Drugs – Burning Mouth

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I have brought you up to date on what happened to me and millions of other Phillips CPAP equipment users in previous posts (Sleep Apnea and Burning Mouth – 2020, Sleep Apnea and Burning Mouth Update – 2022, and A CPAP Update – 2023), and here is the latest.

This morning I read that Phillips Respironics will no longer make and sell these machines that caused so much concern. You can see the most recent and updated story at ProPublica.

What does this mean for people with sleep apnea? Less competition in the market, for certain. Phillips Respironics was the leader by far.

What does this mean for people with Burning Mouth Syndrome/Disorder?

First, I hope you know about this and have stopped using your defective machines. Second, I hope you have seen your apnea specialist and found alternative therapies to help you. And third, and most importantly, if your apnea was caused by being overweight like mine was, I hope you will take that seriously and find something that helps you.

So, let’s talk about the elephant in the room these days. Weight loss meds that have big results but may have big side effects in the long term and definitely have big price tags in the short term.

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A CPAP Update – Burning Mouth

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Back in February 2020, I wrote about having a sleep apnea diagnosis and using the Philips Respironics Dream Station. This was supposedly the top-of-the-line machine. It had the advantage of offering humidified air that would help your mouth and throat be more moist. Since dryness is not a friend of Burning Mouth, I, of course, chose that option. You can read the details at Sleep Apnea and Burning Mouth.

Time went by and I persevered with the machine although it was not always the most comfortable thing and the travel-size version I got with a humidifier disc was a total bust. It was just painfully dry for my throat and I couldn’t tolerate it.

Covid19 hit us all, and travel wasn’t that much of an issue.

In September of last year, I wrote a follow-up post about the nationwide recall that Philips did of their CPAP machines. You can read the details at Sleep Apnea and Burning Mouth Update.

Now a new piece of information has come out based on ProPublica’s investigation and excellent reporting. It is chilling and makes me very happy that I lost weight (Stuck at 35 lbs. down, but I will take it!) and no longer need the CPAP machine. The machine I used nightly is right there in the picture.

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Sleep Apnea and Burning Mouth Syndrome Update

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About two years ago, I wrote a post about Sleep Apnea and Burning Mouth Syndrome.

Since then, a couple of dramatic things happened. A third occurred more slowly and was less dramatic, but more long-lasting.

First: I received this notice and an accompanying notification from my sleep apnea specialist that encouraged me to enroll myself in the recall website and to add an additional filter mechanism (that I could buy on Amazon) to protect me from the particles the machine could be spewing into my lungs.

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Sleep Apnea and Burning Mouth Syndrome

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Life has decided I needed an additional challenge and so sleep apnea is joining Burning Mouth Syndrome now that I have conquered my chronic migraines with Aimovig injections once a month.

Sleep apnea affects so many people (An estimated 22 million in the U.S.) with 80% of those undiagnosed and therefore, untreated. Sleep apnea affects many systems in the human body, as laid out in a 2017 article from Science Daily, researched by John Hopkins Medicine. The harmful byproducts of this stress on our bodies are documented, but I found myself wondering if there might be any link with chronic neuropathic pain conditions like Burning Mouth. I can keep wondering since there are few studies and as usual with BMS, they are quite small.

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