And as someone who's dealt with the ins and outs of CPAP and sleep apnea, increasingly, I believe that reason has very little to do with safety or expertise.
I'm not saying experts can't be valuable, but there's too much obvious bullshit in this space to take at face value what is supposed to be "best practices."
The price fluctuations, the differing bits of information, the restrictions on who can and cannot get what without a prescruption, etc are often quite absurd (when, e.g. compared to the potential danger of MUCH other OTC stuff.)
Example: that it's made condescendingly artificially difficult to adjust your own pressure in a CPAP. It's a damn fan with a release; if you're otherwise healthy, it strongly appears as if the worst possible dangers here are, your sleep will continue to suck and/or you'll fart more.
I'm not saying experts can't be valuable, but there's too much obvious bullshit in this space to take at face value what is supposed to be "best practices."
The price fluctuations, the differing bits of information, the restrictions on who can and cannot get what without a prescruption, etc are often quite absurd (when, e.g. compared to the potential danger of MUCH other OTC stuff.)
Example: that it's made condescendingly artificially difficult to adjust your own pressure in a CPAP. It's a damn fan with a release; if you're otherwise healthy, it strongly appears as if the worst possible dangers here are, your sleep will continue to suck and/or you'll fart more.