What are you supposed to feel like when you wake up?

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Re: What are you supposed to feel like when you wake up?

Post by PoolQ » Sat Jul 18, 2015 9:32 am

So this Monday it will be two weeks for me on CPAP
If we ignore the apnea effect regarding morning/night person. I am a night person-I stay up as long as I want (midnight) and get up when I do. My wife is a morning person-she goes to bed early so she can get up when she wants (6am). Notice the personal focus on what is important to us (how late I stay up and what time she gets up).
I don't think treating apnea will change what you are, but it will let you be what you naturally are.

Before CPAP as was getting about 2 hours of sleep a night, spaced out over 7-11 hours of trying to sleep.
Each day of the first 4 nights on CPAP my total apneas dropped from a high of 135 ->5 apnea's a night (135, 60, 38, 5) and I felt great!!
Then I recovered from total lack of sleep and moved to still not getting enough sleep, apneas went back up and I started adjusting the machine and getting used to CPAP therapy.
Still always better than pre treatment (I have to work to remember this)
I went back up to 64 apneas and now with adjustments have it down to 22 a night, I am still working on it and learning the "tricks" here on the forum.

Would I go back to not using CPAP, not one single freaking chance!
Sleeping MUCH better now

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Re: What are you supposed to feel like when you wake up?

Post by chunkyfrog » Sat Jul 18, 2015 10:41 am

manwe wrote: . . .
It's specifically that first hour when I am dragging my butt to the coffee maker that I would love to not experience anymore. The universe can keep those.
Your butt may still drag, but look for reduced friction.

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Re: What are you supposed to feel like when you wake up?

Post by Madalot » Sat Jul 18, 2015 11:09 am

I think this is tough because people are all so different. I have NEVER woken up refreshed, smiling and ready to go. Still don't. In my situation, I need 8-10 hours of sleep to feel good, PERIOD. It seems that no matter how much sleep I get, even 10 hours, I still don't want to get up. I LIKE sleeping. I'm never ready to get up. But I make myself get up anyway.

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Re: What are you supposed to feel like when you wake up?

Post by Sheriff Buford » Sat Jul 18, 2015 5:36 pm

Madalot: are you wearing th mask every night? Succssfull therapy? Just wondering...

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Re: What are you supposed to feel like when you wake up?

Post by Pugsy » Sat Jul 18, 2015 5:46 pm

I have never been a "morning" person and I didn't get OSA till I hit menopause so effective cpap therapy didn't/couldn't make me into something that I never was in the first place.

But what it did was stop the morning killer headaches and stopped me having to get up to pee 5 or 6 times a night and those 2 problems going away made therapy totally worth it even if I didn't see much improvement in the other typical OSA symptoms ( but I did see some improvement in those as well but those results were slow and gradual where the absence of the headaches and nocturia were pretty much immediate).

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Re: What are you supposed to feel like when you wake up?

Post by Madalot » Sat Jul 18, 2015 7:13 pm

Sheriff Buford wrote:Madalot: are you wearing th mask every night? Succssfull therapy? Just wondering...

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All night, every night. Since the Trilogy doesn't track sleep related data like other machines, I have no way of tracking it. Respiratory wise, I'm good. Apneas and such? Don't know.

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Re: What are you supposed to feel like when you wake up?

Post by calusa » Sun Jul 19, 2015 6:50 pm

I guess I was just thinking that even if I get the apnea controlled well by the machine, the best case would be that I feel much better during the day but I still might be groggy during the first hour or so in the morning. I'm wondering if not being a "morning person" is 100% caused by the apnea or maybe it's just a personality quirk that I will continue to have.

It's specifically that first hour when I am dragging my butt to the coffee maker that I would love to not experience anymore.

Well, that first hour may not get fixed through CPAP therapy!

For me, I'm happy now to have that fog last only an hour, instead of 2--3 hours.

And I'm happy to sleep through the night, waking up maybe once instead of constantly, and not needing an alarm clock to eject me from the bed.

And I'm happy to feel better during the day instead of practically falling asleep every time there's a lull.

And I REALLY love being able to drive without worrying about slaughtering innocents.

I do wish I could skip that first hour, but some of us just aren't morning people!

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Re: What are you supposed to feel like when you wake up?

Post by Matt00926 » Thu Jul 30, 2015 9:19 am

Madalot wrote:
Sheriff Buford wrote:Madalot: are you wearing th mask every night? Succssfull therapy? Just wondering...

Sheriff
All night, every night. Since the Trilogy doesn't track sleep related data like other machines, I have no way of tracking it. Respiratory wise, I'm good. Apneas and such? Don't know.
What version of the Trilogy do you have? I am supposed to receive and have set up the Trilogy 202 at my home on Wednesday. Thankfully I do not really have sleep apnea so I always have low AHI aside from hypopneas, I am being given the Trilogy to help improve hypoventiliation.
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Re: What are you supposed to feel like when you wake up?

Post by Madalot » Thu Jul 30, 2015 9:26 am

Matt00926 wrote:
Madalot wrote:
Sheriff Buford wrote:Madalot: are you wearing th mask every night? Succssfull therapy? Just wondering...

Sheriff
All night, every night. Since the Trilogy doesn't track sleep related data like other machines, I have no way of tracking it. Respiratory wise, I'm good. Apneas and such? Don't know.
What version of the Trilogy do you have? I am supposed to receive and have set up the Trilogy 202 at my home on Wednesday. Thankfully I do not really have sleep apnea so I always have low AHI aside from hypopneas, I am being given the Trilogy to help improve hypoventiliation.
I have the Trilogy 100. I asked my RT if they had any newer models and she didn't even know they existed. This DME inherited all their Trilogy patients and while they service them, aren't all that knowledgeable about them.

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