I was watching your consultation vid (the previous one in your series to this one) thanks for making it
you mentioned the initial mse gains you got with ting initially made you feel like "you wouldn't need to do nasal surgery with a spreader"
can you expand on this please? Were you referencing your improved sleep quality when you said that or just improved breathing quality? What in particular is your average day's sleeping architecture like pre everything (roughly 10 years ago)? Were you experiencing multiple awakenings or one single awakening just too early? Do you have allergic or non allergic rhinitis or do you just have a narrow nasal airway with too much vascular hypertrophied tissue? Besides the spreader, did the [presumably plastic] surgeon recommend alars or strut additionally? Referencing back to the initial mse gains, with those gains, did you get the sense that you had a larger sleep drive upon awakening in the night, or another way of phrasing this is, did you have a higher parasympathetic drive, or to put it less scientifically, did you feel sleepier and more relaxed upon awakening?
For context, I'm asking about the sleep maintenance context of your experience with that initial mse, because my case is one in which I wake up wayyy too early (3-4am) with almost zero grogginess as if my body had been awake for 5 hours already at work, and it's only around 9am where the exhaustion kicks in enough to allow me to fall back to sleep. The nap at 9am, if completed, flips some switch to enable less defensiveness throughout the day (I'm assuming the nap is like pure REM due to it including dreams while my initial sleep has zero dreams). If not completed, then I'm a defensive, exhausted, memory scrambled, wretch throughout the day. The main issue is, cbt-i, drugs, yoga, meditation, etc. none of it is able to reinitiate sleep following that initial awakening, only the complete exhaustion that starts to catch up at 9am is able to do it. If I had a remote job on a time zone that's 3-5 hours before me, then maybe this would be fine, but sadly I do not. I went down the rabbit hole of nasal issues when I first had an ent spray afrin in my nose and all of a sudden I woke up at 3-4am feeling sleepy for the first time and was able to go back to sleep, so that's why I'm asking about your initial gains experience. Likewise, we have similar nasal issues from what I saw of your EASE vid, nasal valve collapse n all that fun stuff
I was watching your consultation vid (the previous one in your series to this one) thanks for making it
you mentioned the initial mse gains you got with ting initially made you feel like "you wouldn't need to do nasal surgery with a spreader"
can you expand on this please? Were you referencing your improved sleep quality when you said that or just improved breathing quality? What in particular is your average day's sleeping architecture like pre everything (roughly 10 years ago)? Were you experiencing multiple awakenings or one single awakening just too early? Do you have allergic or non allergic rhinitis or do you just have a narrow nasal airway with too much vascular hypertrophied tissue? Besides the spreader, did the [presumably plastic] surgeon recommend alars or strut additionally? Referencing back to the initial mse gains, with those gains, did you get the sense that you had a larger sleep drive upon awakening in the night, or another way of phrasing this is, did you have a higher parasympathetic drive, or to put it less scientifically, did you feel sleepier and more relaxed upon awakening?
For context, I'm asking about the sleep maintenance context of your experience with that initial mse, because my case is one in which I wake up wayyy too early (3-4am) with almost zero grogginess as if my body had been awake for 5 hours already at work, and it's only around 9am where the exhaustion kicks in enough to allow me to fall back to sleep. The nap at 9am, if completed, flips some switch to enable less defensiveness throughout the day (I'm assuming the nap is like pure REM due to it including dreams while my initial sleep has zero dreams). If not completed, then I'm a defensive, exhausted, memory scrambled, wretch throughout the day. The main issue is, cbt-i, drugs, yoga, meditation, etc. none of it is able to reinitiate sleep following that initial awakening, only the complete exhaustion that starts to catch up at 9am is able to do it. If I had a remote job on a time zone that's 3-5 hours before me, then maybe this would be fine, but sadly I do not. I went down the rabbit hole of nasal issues when I first had an ent spray afrin in my nose and all of a sudden I woke up at 3-4am feeling sleepy for the first time and was able to go back to sleep, so that's why I'm asking about your initial gains experience. Likewise, we have similar nasal issues from what I saw of your EASE vid, nasal valve collapse n all that fun stuff