I’m hoping I don’t have brain damage but this definitely has me more motivated to get a CPAP finally. Thank you for sharing.
Edit: Asked my GP for a referral to the ENT. Gonna get my sleep checked again!
I got one about two months ago. It’s been such an immense improvement to my quality of life. I didn’t think I was sleep deprived, but I was! I just had gotten so used to feeling like shit all the time. I should have listened to my wife and got sleep research done years ago. Apparently I stopped breathing 66 times per hour in my sleep!
I had it done, I even had the CPAP for a trial period, but my ex said the mask bothered her and I’d have to find somewhere else to sleep if I used it. I also didn’t have a sleep schedule so I barely got around to trying it.
How could it have bothered her? Good thing she’s your ex now.
It “looked scary” and she didn’t want the hose or whatever in the bed… Plus she didn’t like the sound or something.
I could write a book on her. She’s that fucked up of a person. You see people online with main character syndrome? She legitimately seems to think she’s the only person who’s actually human, everyone else is wrong, stupid and evil. Nobody should ever inconvenience her. I once asked her if she’s ever felt anything she did was wrong, or if she ever regretted anything. She said she doesn’t have to answer that.
Just get the CPAP. It’d awesome IMHO. And the new ones are basically silent
This was a bit over a year ago so it’s not exactly like we’re talking about some old and super loud one either hehe
Anyway I’m making the phone call to the hospital on Monday to see if I can get an appointment with the same doc, otherwise I can book online at another hospital, I noticed there are a lot of available slots even for next week. It’ll cost me like 5 euros for the doctor’s appointment and then about 90 to buy the actual CPAP as they told me (national health insurance pays most, but not all of it). It’s as close to free as you can get, honestly.
That’s great! Just be sure you don’t get a Philips machine (see: https://www.legalexaminer.com/texaminer/medical-devices/philips-cpap-class-action-agreement-reached-while-cpap-injury-lawsuits-continue/)
I have a Löwenstein prisma smart max. No complains about it.
2 nights slept with the ResMed I was given for testing. Near silent indeed. It feels weird waking up less tired than I was when I went to sleep. Also managed to keep the CPAP on a full 8 hours both nights, I was warned that initially I might not even be able to do the full 4 hours needed for there to be a measurable treatment effect as it all feels so foreign to my body, but I think I’ve just been so tired at night, I just didn’t care. It’s waking me up less than the apnea itself.
I found the CPAP life changing. Was a walking zombie for years, thinking I was just a bad sleeper.
It’s kind of annoying at first but stick with it. After a while if you try and sleep without it, you realize how bad the apnea is.
I’ve been a walking zombie all my 20s basically. Hope this solves it. I’ve got so much shit going on that could be improved by getting a good night’s rest from fewer than 16 hours.
2 night so far and I’m no longer a complete zombie in the morning. It’s awesome
Pleased to hear. Keep it up. After a couple of weeks it keeps getting better and you’ll feel far more rested.
Daytime lethargy has definitely gone down. I had to visit the sleep nurse after a week last Friday to return the oxygen sensor (they only have one or two sensors to give out with the test CPAPs - I get to buy my own CPAP next month) and she said my oxygen levels were already back to normal without any need to further adjust the pressures. First week or so involved a lot of waking up at night, but now I barely notice the thing!
Too bad many of us just can’t use the CPAP machines… There’s no real alternative
I use one of these instead of a CPAP and it has made quite a difference: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/21129-oral-appliance-therapy-for-sleep-apnea
Same.
Why can’t you use it?
Severe claustrophobic. Cpap makes me feel like I am suffocating.
