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by KnH » Fri Sep 04, 2015 8:57 am
Earlier during the day I checked Fedex website and it said I had signed for the package!!!!! and I was at work, So I started to worry about who had My new CPAP machine. When my wife got home it was on the porch.
I got home last night the Respironics PR System One 60 Series REMstar Auto and the Swift FX nasal pillow mask was waiting for me,
The Remstar came from a real DME company and it was new in the box with all the documentation, so that settled one worry.
I am very lucky, I have a wonderful wife, the whole evening I was very nervous about actually start using CPAP,up to that point I was in pure information gathering mode. She repeated over and over again when I asked her if this was the right course to take and she kept reminding me how very tied I was and how much of a fog i have been in, and I did fall a sleep and drive off the side of the road.
I watched a few YouTube videos & read all the manuals and it didn't take me long to set it up, but I worried a lot the whole time if i was doing it right.
First night impressions I worried a lot and woke up 3 or 4 times, readjust the mask, check the machine. There was only one real problem, I have a deviated septum and one nare is quite a bit smaller, I had to use the small nasal pillows, with the medium pillows I had pressure point pain in the smaller nare.
I woke up one time and My nose was supper dry and it felt like I was only able to move air through one nare, so I turned up the humidity all the way up. when I woke up my nose wasn't totally dry and I was breathing from both nares.
Im not sure how I slept,still feel somewhat tired, my wife said I didn't snore at all and I didn't jump all over the bed like I normally do. I have been so dead on my feet, one night might no be enough to feel normal again. My sleep study AHI was 79, last night on CPAP the Remstar said it said it was 4.
I qualified for bariatric surgery and I decided to pass, My doctor started me on a new weight loss medication, the patient hand out info came in a real nice pink/purple bag, totally sexist, LOL. My wife snatched that bag real quick. I have lost 12 pounds in the first month and don't feel like I am starving myself at all. I am really surprised that it is working so well. One of the perks is I got a fancy new scale, it sends my weight in and I get text messages were I stand both up and down with my weight loss. It is called contrave and it does have a discount card, So between the CPAP and weight loss I hope to continue to get my life going in the right direction.
Thank you all for all the great info everyone gave me.