Sleep apnea...what can you tell me?

[Drew]

A side note to Robert's post. When I started using a CPAP machine, I lost weight. Maybe coincidental. But my regained energy from a good night's sleep seemed to help in exercising during the day and resisting the wrong kind of food. I've bounced up and down more that I wanted to since then, but have never reached the higher weight that I had before CPAP. Fully agree that weight loss is critical for many reasons including sleep apnea.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Better/longer sleep has been shown to correlate with weight loss.

[jdc]

Weight may play a role, but there have been plenty of instances here where thats not the case.

[Carm]

I used to wear a full nose/mouth mask with a CPAP that was not Auto and I would rip it off in the middle of the night. I felt like I couldn't exhale and would wake up and rip the mask off and go back to sleep. That was my first experience and I stopped using it after about two months. I finally went back after a year of continuous suffering from tiredness and headaches. The second test was with a take home machine. It was an auto CPAP machine. I didn't feel like I was drowning when I used it. I had changed insurance providers before the take home test. the sleep therapist and ear nose and throat specialist went over my MRI or X-rays and physically looking at my throat and nasal cavity. The sleep therapist went over the machine options and masks. They figured out that I needed only a nose "mask" and not full mask.

[MacArtist]

Thank you so much for posting your experiences with sleep apnea and dealing with the CPAP equipment.

Thsnk you to the forum members who offered their extra equipment.

I am waiting for a call to schedule the home study. I post a follow up to this after I complete the study.

Thanks again!

[NewtonMP2100]

.....Waiting to Exhale.....here too.....

[Buzz]

Mrs. Buzz is (and always has been) skinny, but nonetheless snores like a freight train, as well as makes other unsettling noises at night. She's in her 60's now, but was almost as noisy in her 30's when I met her. She's tried the sleep test a couple of times, but didn't get much sleep, and she seems to have a phobia against the assistive machines. Her, also skinny, little brother (61 later this month) OTOH, has been using sleep helping machines for years, and absolutely loves 'em for the benefits he gets. From this vantage point, it seems like the more you embrace the technology, the better you're apt to do. Good luck.
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[NewtonMP2100]

....sleep it off.....??