Alcohol and CPAP

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Re: Alcohol and CPAP

Post by ozze_dollar » Fri Jun 08, 2012 1:04 am

If I have a few drinks too many I sleep like a log. It is the only time I almost sleep all through the night. Its a bit rough to do every night though.

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Re: Alcohol and CPAP

Post by carosan11 » Fri Jun 08, 2012 1:27 am

I can honestly say I hardly notice any difference in the AHI numbers when I have a couple of drinks...sometimes it is even lower!!
... but if I have more than 3, I am most definitely more tired the next day so I try to stick to 1 or 2

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Re: Alcohol and CPAP

Post by user from Singapore » Fri Jun 08, 2012 3:10 am

carosan11 wrote: ... but if I have more than 3, I am most definitely more tired the next day so I try to stick to 1 or 2
Just take a large glass and you can easily stick to 1 or 2 .
If I drink, I usually have also only 2 glasses: the first one and the last one

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Re: Alcohol and CPAP

Post by MaxDarkside » Fri Jun 08, 2012 6:32 am

user from Singapore wrote:Just take a large glass and you can easily stick to 1 or 2 .
Such as a couple of Singapore Slings in the Long Bar at Raffles, eh?

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Re: Alcohol and CPAP

Post by user from Singapore » Fri Jun 08, 2012 10:57 am

MaxDarkside wrote:
user from Singapore wrote:Just take a large glass and you can easily stick to 1 or 2 .
Such as a couple of Singapore Slings in the Long Bar at Raffles, eh?
No way, that's a lady's drink

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Re: Alcohol and CPAP

Post by MaxDarkside » Fri Jun 08, 2012 11:00 am

user from Singapore wrote:No way, that's a lady's drink
In Miri and KL I've bought lady's drinks, but a different kind of lady

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Re: Alcohol and CPAP

Post by chunkyfrog » Fri Jun 08, 2012 11:15 am

Oh, that was a drink?
No wonder my feet are getting pruney.

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Re: Alcohol and CPAP

Post by insylem » Fri Jun 08, 2012 12:28 pm

Mostly lately ive ever just had one drink, like an hour or two before bedtime, and so I doubt it affected me..
But before I knew I had sleep apnea, and now i understand why,
but anytime I had say.... more then a couple drinks, I would have extreemly difficult time sleeping, and prety much just laze arround all night not sleeping.... Though now I understand why... also explains to some degree hangover headaches....

Since ive been on cpap I have yet to.. . have more then a couple drinks So I dont know what effect it would have on me. Worse case I cant breath right and stay up all night like I did before... .

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Re: Alcohol and CPAP

Post by MaxDarkside » Fri Jun 08, 2012 12:36 pm

For me, if I have more than 1 oz. just before sleep it really messes up my sleep cycles, fragments it badly.

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Re: Alcohol and CPAP

Post by MeToo » Fri Jun 08, 2012 1:46 pm

Here is my strategy: I drink a 2-3 of glasses of wine most nights, but I do it early & mostly before dinner. At dinner I start hydrating and by bedtime 3 hrs later or so, I'm sober, fatigued, and ready to sleep. I don't notice that my sleep is effected, but I only look at the small screen on the S9.

I read once that if you drink alcohol within 3 hrs of bedtime, it diminishes sleep quality, but if consumption is 3 hrs or more, then not so much. If someone replies that this is not true, I will resort to herbal relaxation strategies.

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Re: Alcohol and CPAP

Post by user from Singapore » Fri Jun 08, 2012 9:16 pm

MaxDarkside wrote: In Miri and KL I've bought lady's drinks, but a different kind of lady
I don't think I need more details

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Re: Alcohol and CPAP

Post by cpap heaven » Fri Aug 18, 2017 6:19 am

There is no way in hell that I am giving up my red wine, CPAP or no CPAP. I drink wine every night. And since I have gotten my CPAP, I sleep like a baby and I am breathing again!!!!!

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Re: Alcohol and CPAP

Post by Goofproof » Fri Aug 18, 2017 1:16 pm

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