Well, it seems so darn unnatural a treatment. I kinda would think that whatever "being" created all of us could have figured out how to rest our bodies at night without a damn machine hooked up to us. I wonder how many other mammals (i.e. dogs) stop breathing while snoozing? I still say it's a scam to sell everyone a CPAP device. If trying to sleep without a machine ramming air down my throat kills me (or makes me drowsy daytime) then so be it.
Of the three of us guys who were out chasing girls in our twenties together and diagnosed with sleep apnea and now in our 60's, the first (and only one) to pass away (last year) was the only one of us who used the CPAP religiously. And I'm not saying the CPAP was the cause.
Then you have the case of the man who adopted me, also diagnosed with sleep apnea but did not use his device. Lived to be 86 years old (longer than average life expectancy). He began smoking non-filter cigarettes in 1930 (at the age of 10), never exercised, ate all the greasy meat and potatoes he wanted.
