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Default Oct 17, 2024 at 12:37 AM
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So the Snore Lab app is likely not for me as I listen to audio books when I fall asleep. It is probably hard for the app to discern what is snoring and what is audio. I will use it for a couple more days of the free trial but then likely cancel the subscription.

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Default Oct 18, 2024 at 07:01 PM
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I haven't been doing well with sleep the past few months - it's been really disturbed and all over the place. I have a pdoc appointment in a month and I am going to ask her if it's okay to increase the hydroxyzine. I have been on the same dosage for almost 2 years, and maybe I think I need more.-snip-
Isn't hydroxyzine meant for severe itching? I suppose that it's so sedating that it can be used to zonk you out...

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Default Oct 18, 2024 at 07:19 PM
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If so, you remind me of my maternal grandpa. He was super orderly. Also, he was used to cleanliness and his upbringing taught him that. He and his siblings were raised by a widow who worked outside the home as a bookkeeper. They lived in a house in a small town, more like a village, on the Kama river. I do not remember now how many siblings in total but at least 7. So every day, the kids had to tidy up and clean the house before the mother came home from work. Every single day. Everything had to be spotless. Sure, as they were poor, there were not much stuff in the house which always makes it easier to clean, but still, the standards were high: spotless every day.

And then he married my grandmother who was so-so on orderliness and they had two daughters, one of them my mother who was extremely, outrageously chaotic and who accumulated belongings and never cleaned. And my grandpa had to put up with living in a household which was clearly so far off from his standards. But he managed to keep his personal space pristine and spotless. His desk had almost nothing on it: a beautiful letter opener knife (wooden? not sure), an ink pot, and a semi-oval heavy weight. I am not sure now what the heavy weight was used for in those days. And all his papers were kept in drawers. My grandma's desk had piles, and piles, and piles of papers on it. In complete disarray that still made sense to her as she was not disoriented and I do not remember her ever looking for her stuff. She knew where her stuff was.
I liked reading about your grandparents, mother and aunt. I'm a visual thinking and I pictured a scene from long ago times, as if I were reading a novel.

I wonder if the semi-oval weight was an ink blotter. They were common back then. When I was a teenager (in the late '70s) I imagined myself living a century earlier, and I wrote with pen and ink, and (you guessed it) I had an actual ink blotter! This was probably some manifestation of undiagnosed autism.

When it comes to paper, I take after your grandma. I use an archaeological approach to filing, relating a paper's position in the pile with its age. I'd rather not have any papers, which is part of the reason I'd prefer a life without doctor's and health insurance (as I wrote elsewhere). But I struggle if cabinets, closets and tools are out of place.

Apologies to whomever started this thread for hijacking it with my rambling...

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Default Oct 19, 2024 at 01:51 AM
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An ink blotter! Yes, yes, that likely was it!

It did not occur to me until you suggested it. Apart from one attempt to learn to write in ink in elementary school, I have not encountered ink in decades.

Thank you for reading, my dear friend SPG!

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Default Oct 19, 2024 at 09:55 PM
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So this is the report from my free trial of Snore Lab.
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Default Oct 19, 2024 at 09:56 PM
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To remind you, I listen to audio when falling asleep. Sometimes, it continues playing and sometimes, it does not. I am pretty sure that audio interferes with snoring recording by the app and it is likely that the app cannot properly discern snoring in the presence of audio interference. So, I think that the app overreports snoring by sometimes mistaking audio (books, podcasts) for snoring. With that in mind, I think the reported data shows pretty mild snoring and not a huge concern. I am inclined to stop the free trial and not pay for the app.

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Default Oct 23, 2024 at 09:21 PM
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1. Doesn't your Sleep Apnea report include snoring?
2. Why do you want to know about snoring? Sorry if you explained that already.

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Default Oct 23, 2024 at 11:27 PM
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My Sleep apnea report outputs events (apneas) and leaks but not snoring.

I have sent the above report to the CBT-I psychologist and she agreed that snoring is not a big concern for now.

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