Originally Posted by
ChrisLi
Sleep Apnea is actually life threatening. The patient can go without breathing (for anytime to 15s - 60s) when asleep and then subsequently brain damage (due to insufficient Oxygen to brain) or RIP eternally.
Which is why I'm shock some airlines actually bans CPAP use. I think USA it's mandatory airlines have to provide means for people with Sleep Apnea ability to use CPAP, and carrying a CPAP case up to the airplane is NOT consider extra baggage.
People do not realize the severity of Sleep Apnea and the damages that it causes to the person's brain, and in some cases, death. It is said most historical peoples that "died in their sleep" (not at really old age, but relatively younger age) were probably people with Sleep Apnea.
Sleep Apnea is not just the fact that you can't get quality sleep, but the fact that you stop breathing and your body don't get oxygen (hence lack of quality sleep), and especially causes brain damage and heart damage (lack of oxygen also damages the heart)