The thing is, I had anxiety, took the pills, anxiety went away. It was night and day. I had no sleep problems back then. Sometimes treatment is diagnostic.Cereal Killer wrote:Conceivable? I think it was there most of my life. It took a near crisis stage to get something done about it. Doctors have been extremely lax on getting people diagnosed. "It's easier to prescribe a pill."
It's possible that apneas are waking me up, and I hadn't thought of that, but it could also be the loud rushing of air, stone-dry mouth, and aerophagic pain. When I have slept without a BiPAP in the past, I would sometimes wake up with tachycardia, presumably from the adrenaline rush. I definitely knew from that that I had an apneic episode. I never feel that way when I wake up from xerostomia.Cereal Killer wrote:Your equipment profile shows you are using a nasal interface. You are breathing through your mouth at times during the night, and most likely you are having apneas that are causing the awakenings.
The onset of anxiety was coincident with lowering the dose of Lexapro and did not correlate to anything in my OSA treatment. BTW, the anxiety isn't crippling or anything. I just get a little, well, anxious and easy to rile (geez, is it showing? ).Cereal Killer wrote:Air pressure is being lost through your mouth, and the therapy is no longer effective. Apneas and sleep deprivation are probably causing your current anxiety.
No, I haven't. I'll give a try this weekend. My PT finally got the 3G modem on my BiPAP working, so I can see a simple graph and report on PR's SleepMapper app and web site. Just looking at the SleepyHead screen captures, though, I can see that SleepMapper pales in comparison.Cereal Killer wrote:Are you using Sleepyhead to see what is going on in bed? If not, you SURE need to.