How long before I get to "rested and refreshed"?

http://www.emedicinehealth.com/drug-dul ... ideeffects

here's a couple that might impact things a little.
Probably not 100% of the problem but could be a factor

drowsiness;
tired feeling;

MbMinx wrote:I suppose I'm expecting too much based on the reports I've had from family members. My Uncle had a CPAP for years, and told me what a miracle it was "from that first night". Of course, now he has a Bipap and tells me that my CPAP is "old technology" and "won't help at all". Actually, since his gastric bypass, he's lost over 150 lbs and says that he doesn't need his machine anymore and that all I need to do is lose weight (I am carrying some extra, but nothing on that scale).
My father in law has one and won't leave home without it. Even the doctor and the technicians told me that the difference will be "like night and day" and I should "feel better almost immediately".

*sigh*

And the cats are not fans of the mask and tubing. I have seven, and nobody comes to cuddle with me anymore. *pout*
(This handsome fellow is Chester, my diabetic)

Just hang in there.
CPAP is not "old technology"......Bi-PAP is SPECIFIC technology for those patients who need it. And, it's more expensive.
I'd venture to guess that the doctor and technicians who told you that don't use the therapy themselves. I can probably count on one hand the number of people who have reported on the forum that it was an "immediate" transformation for them. It wasn't for me......took months and I had good "numbers" from the get-go. You need to take it one night at a time and at some point when you realize how long it's been since you started, it won't have seemed so long.


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MbMinx wrote:I suppose I'm expecting too much based on the reports I've had from family members. My Uncle had a CPAP for years, and told me what a miracle it was "from that first night". Of course, now he has a Bipap and tells me that my CPAP is "old technology" and "won't help at all". Actually, since his gastric bypass, he's lost over 150 lbs and says that he doesn't need his machine anymore and that all I need to do is lose weight (I am carrying some extra, but nothing on that scale).
My father in law has one and won't leave home without it. Even the doctor and the technicians told me that the difference will be "like night and day" and I should "feel better almost immediately".

*sigh*

And the cats are not fans of the mask and tubing. I have seven, and nobody comes to cuddle with me anymore. *pout*
(This handsome fellow is Chester, my diabetic)

it is like night and day - looking back at what I was and what I am, I can say , post on here someplace else about my issues with nanonex and ask for help , or moan about the NHS (I'm English) still knowing that the darkest night here and now is absolutely nothing on what it was. In that respect he is right, you just need to learn it and have a few years experience, then you look back like I am doing now and it is night and day so I think he's put it in the wrong time for both me and you but right for him.

the internet is a great and a fearful thing, I can go back in time using it. I can see the desperate posts I made on forums while refusing to accept I was ill. The posts of a man so desperate he thinks his world is going to end. I can read the despair in my words and sense the dread in the night time, I can then snap back to here and realise whatever problem I had then next to now is not in the same league as then.

night and day to me is two nights and two days. I can now say the worse that can ever happen to me is one horrible night, then the CPAP fixes it. Therefore I am 50% up on previously, even in the very worse case scenario. Often better, although not this week cause steroids are giving me jip. Just eaten raw garlic to counter it my partner is going to love me when she gets in.

me and my partner have nine cats, seven is not bad! the beautiful girl in my picture is a fat calico called CC, she is the apple of my eye.

I wonder how the OP is doing now.