New doc and "CPAP fasting" before sleep study

[Sludge]

How about a 10MG Diazepam?

"IMHO" diazepam is obsolete, unpredictable and dangerous.

[Sludge]

And the sleep lab did fine for diagnosing and treating my sleep apnea.

How do you know?

I mean, if you took Ambien for the study, Ambien makes obstructive sleep apnea worse, and it makes central sleep apnea better...

...I was under the impression that sleep meds had the opposite effect on centrals.

See F/U post re: Bev.

I think the best answer is:

Rather than drug wingin" (shoving in drugs and hoping something good will happen), you need to know exactly what you want/need to fix before you try to fix it. Hypnotics may be quite helpful in the treatment of CompSAS (Treatment Emergent Centrals) as they reduce the hyperarousability that generates chain-centrals caused by hypocapnea.

However, if one has hypercapneic-associated CSA, the addition of sedating-promoting drugs has the about the same potential as putting a plastic bag over your head.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2670330/

Does this apply to Lunesta as well? ... centrals were an issue prior, and to some extent still are.

Depends on the source and number of centrals.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2542971/

[chunkyfrog]

I no longer need to nap, thanks to cpap.

[BlackSpinner]

So if you took a nap during the day; I'm bad about doing it in my recliner but I'm not near my CPAP machine; do you move your machine from the bedroom to wherever if you take a nap during the day? #justcurious

Never nap unless I am sick and then I am in bed. It makes me feel like crap even with cpap.

[OhHelpMe]

Same here. About 3 years ago I ended up in ER hooked up to monitors. As I drifted into a doze (sitting up) I woke suddenly and notices my SPO2 was in the 70's ( sleep study it dropped down to 56%) . That was just drifting off, not full sleep. I will never sleep without it ever again. So if you took a nap during the day; I'm bad about doing it in my recliner but I'm not near my CPAP machine; do you move your machine from the bedroom to wherever if you take a nap during the day? #justcurious



Stevoreno_55
MS Gulf Coast
04/25/14

It seems to work better if the machine is in the same room as my nap. YMMV.

[chunkyfrog]

Last time I was sick, I just went back to bed--11 hours straight.
Cats really know what they are doing.

[Guest]

do you move your machine from the bedroom to wherever if you take a nap during the day? #justcurious

i move my body to the room with the cpap machine.
give it a try it does work

[RogerSC]

I'd vote for Ambien to get you to sleep early. My sleep doctor, quite well-known and respected in the area, suggested Ambien if I ever had to have another sleep study, and expressed regret that I didn't have Ambien for my one and only sleep study. He's happy to prescribe it if I need it for sleeping occasionally. I'm still on the original 30 Ambien that I got when I started cpap (over 2 years ago) after using it for week then, so I don't use it a lot *smile*, just when I know I'm going to have a problem sleeping.

I'm also late to go to bed (2AM more or less), and do take .3mg of melatonin, which seems to help me in getting back to sleep later on in the night. It is also used for changing one's sleep time, like for working with jet lag. However, I'd still go with Ambien, it is reliable, you're not going to want to get geared up more than once if at all possible, so you should get the maximum you can out of it.

I know that for my next sleep study (never, if I have anything to say about it *smile*), I'll be using Ambien. After all that, of course I don't know if Ambien interacts with any other drugs you may be taking. If it does, I'm sure that there's a sleep aid that doesn't, especially for such a short term purpose.

[Stevoreno_55]

Same here. About 3 years ago I ended up in ER hooked up to monitors. As I drifted into a doze (sitting up) I woke suddenly and notices my SPO2 was in the 70's ( sleep study it dropped down to 56%) . That was just drifting off, not full sleep. I will never sleep without it ever again. So if you took a nap during the day; I'm bad about doing it in my recliner but I'm not near my CPAP machine; do you move your machine from the bedroom to wherever if you take a nap during the day? #justcurious



Stevoreno_55
MS Gulf Coast
04/25/14

It seems to work better if the machine is in the same room as my nap. YMMV.

[happydaz]

Looks like he is deleting stuff again....this was after Chunkyfrogs post.

do you move your machine from the bedroom to wherever if you take a nap during the day? #justcurious

i move my body to the room with the cpap machine.
give it a try it does work

Johnny are you watching?

Is anyone keeping score? Who's on first? There is always one (or two) on every forum.

[RogerSC]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I'm really glad to hear that you're finally getting a full sleep study. And I hope that you find out what's keeping you from feeling rested. Life is so much more enjoyable and peaceful when you're feeling less tired.

Take care.

[kaiasgram]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I'm really glad to hear that you're finally getting a full sleep study. And I hope that you find out what's keeping you from feeling rested. Life is so much more enjoyable and peaceful when you're feeling less tired.

Take care.

Thanks Roger *smile*.

[nmbugs]

OTOH, Jason does full-boat HSTs, don't he?

Just throwin" it out there...

Can't PM you, 'ya know...

Fixed...

PM for you still doesn't work. Comes up saying some users don't accept pms.

[SleepyStar]

I hope the test goes well for you, Kaiasgram!