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Lynda H's avatar

My husband used a CPAP for almost 30 years - the same one. Finally it blew up - literally! - and we didn't replace it because the snoring never resumed. Was it a healthier diet, healthier environment or did the CPAP train the airways to remain open during sleep?

I have observed something strange. People who were not well before their 40s seem to get better - and it's usually through their own research, self-treatment and self-determination. The people who are fit and healthy in their younger years hit their 40s and seem to fall apart healthwise. They place their trust in doctors, who are too often hopeless.

EGK's avatar

my friend who is a medical doctor in the UK and is using a mouthguard for 1.5 years now thinks most of what he was taught to do is completely wrong.

You set the biomechanics in the right direction (eg. mouthguard) and then you let the body heal itself.

Santiago Figarola's avatar

Came here from email. And I agree 100%. In my case I was suffering from sleep apnea and most likely UARS. I had a lot of symptoms, mainly chronic fatigue, and I wouldn't give that to anyone.

After two years of searching the cause (and not being able to do much, all this time) finally by trying a CPAP I more or less resumed feeling like a normal person. And now all my friends and family finally believe that I was just feeling unwell previously.

In my case I'm mainly doing thumb pulling and myofunctional therapy in order to fix the root cause, but I'm also trying the mouth guard stuff. Health is really the most important thing that we have, and biomechanics can be the basis of health, especially nowadays, with all the mouth breathing, orthodontic treatment, soft foods, etc. that causes it to degrade in virtually everyone.

Jackson Stock's avatar

If you could go back to your first months starting Reviv, not having your function back but only knowing its coming, what would you tell yourself?

EGK's avatar

well its important to first align on the timing that you mean... I started Reviv in September 2024 and I first got into this game in the Spring of 2014 when the dentist drilled my teeth.

By the time i started Reviv in Sept 2024 I'd been doing the exact same technique since Fall 2021 (for 3 yrs) and improving dialy + getting better at it. I was already functioning quite well and felt very confident at that point that i knew how this process worked from 3 years of doing it.

If you're referring to Spring 2014 then i had no idea if id ever find the answer and was scared. I would have told myself... "Ken.. chill out. You'll figure this out. But it's going to take you a number of painful and frustrating years to do it. "