To feel upset/ unnerved by the advert that just aired on More 4 channel?

[Justheretogiveaviewfrommyworld]

I've just seen an advert for So Clean C-pap hose/mask cleaner. It just feels really jarring that this would be on a mainstream advert slot. My nephew is severely physically disabled and uses a breathing support machine at night, so it's not the machine that has 'upset' me for want of a different word. It was more that I know CPap machines are used by people with weight related airway obstruction at night. I feel sad that this is becoming so mainstream that such things need to be advertised. I'm not judging those who need to use them, but I think it's sad we aren't finding ways to help people with difficulties with their weight, be it over or under eating disorders. I am mid forties and it just seemed like such a big change and so normalised, IYSWIM?

Almost all your other posts mention overweight/obesity.

Op, giving people cpap machines probably will help them with their weight, so you shouldn’t be sad, you should be pleased.

I also think that teaching children not to be ashamed of their weight is... misleading. Ofcourse i dont want people to be unhappy woth themselves but i think its counter productive 'normalising' serious issues

If shame or being unhappy with their bodies made people lose weight, there would be no obese people.

I had sleep studies done last year as I have chronic insomnia, hypothyroidism and pHPT. All of which have caused me chronic fatigue, chronic pain and a lot of weight gain. Plus my dad has sleep apnoea as he has diabetes and weight gain from use of steroids and the fact he has no pituitary gland as it was destroyed by a benign tumour. I also have a short neck. But thankfully my snoring is normal snoring and I don't have sleep apnoea. Just a bunch of crappy glands, the bits of them that weren't surgically removed

Not as an insult, Me, in response to being asked why I thought obesity has any relevance. I've not been on this site long, but people love to twist posters words to service what they want get from a thread. TThat was not my post Dojo. Anyway, I posed the question, people didn't have a similar reaction to me, fine. I thought this is a discussion forum so I would discuss an issue that pricked my mind. I've done that now, so I won't be replying again.

It was more that I know CPap machines are used by people with weight related airway obstruction at night

My husband uses one. He's not overweight and never has been.
The part of his throat where the uvula (I think that's what it's called)
lies is a little larger than usual. He had an op to make it smaller, but it didn't help so he uses a cpap. Not everybody who uses a cpap machine is either disabled or overweight. I think it's a good thing that there is more information because then people who need to use them don't feel quite so much of an oddball. My husband has used one for 15 years at least and found it difficult to come to terms with.

Perhaps there are other reasons for increase in CPAP usage? Better diagnosis? Recognition of impact on a wider range of illnesses? Advances in CPAP technology which means it is easier and better for people to use at home rather than only in a hospital setting?

Bingo. It’s not the simple case of increasing obesity in the population leads to greater increase in use of CPAP leads to advertising on tv.

It’s become recognised as being a factor in more health issues, become a more mainstream diagnostic test so uptake is soaring and obesity is only one small piece in this larger puzzle but this does not fit OPs narrative.

Quite a few people I know (who seem outwardly fit and healthy) now use CPAP machines. All thin. Only one obese person I know uses one. That’s just personal observation and pretty worthless in the grand scheme but is not out of line with what I observed when working in healthcare. Use is going up due to increasing obesity for sure, but use is also skyrocketing due to a host of non-obesity related factors. So no real need for horror over the adverts.

@Justheretogiveaviewfrommyworld They aren’t just for the fatties love. There are quite a few reasons to use them for many people but in recent years have become cheaper, more accessible and more efficient- prob why the ad. To let people know that they are available and affordable and not just for extreme conditionS.
Thanks for the faux concern over poor little ( big) chubsters tho.

I really don't get people saying I'm having a pop at 'fat people'

Yes its quite incredible that having taken one health condition a banged on about another in every post and how they are connected that people should so "oh look the OP is being a GF".

Also, if the drs prescribe it, why is an advert needed?

The advert was for the hose cleaner wasn't it? They don't prescribe that. Also, it's such an important piece of kit that some people who can afford it buy their own machine. There are some more comfortable and discreet (and thank goodness, quieter) ones on the market than what the NHS prescribes. So there's your market.

I wonder why there is a need for people to buy things to clean CPAP machines?

Because if you breathe through a yard of corrugated plastic all night it can get a bit scrungy.

You're 'unnerved' by seeing this advert in a 'mainstream advert slot'?

What sort of advert slot would you expect to see it on? The Sleep Apnoea Channel?

I think it's good that mainstream capitalism has realised that disabled people are also a market who want improved and competitive standard options and don't just have to rely on option A or option B.