Administrator of day training programs for the developmentally disabled.

Geez Louise this is one of the most active forums I've ever seen, for any kind of topic. Who is the the owner of the site?

Yeah, there will be a lot of questions asked.

Thanks everyone.

Jules...If I knew your state I promise to avoid driving there, though, like I said, I rarely get sleepy doing anything.
Well, almost anything.

I appreciate all the comments, even the deathly ones. (I love you too Muse ) As far as the thread hijacking, guilty as charged. Newbies don't like to start threads. And where I post on other forums, threads are made to be hijacked. As long as there is pertinent discussion I don't see the problem. I ...

I had mostly hypopneas during my sleep study, also. I also have high blood pressure which was very refractive to treatment (i.e., no matter what combination of meds, it wouldn't stay in the normal range). After I started CPAP, my blood pressure stabilized and remains under good control with one med...

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Thanks for the welcome two . And no, I won't rant at you. I know my original post makes it painfully obvious that I don't want to get on the machine . I only agreed to the sleep test because my doctor tried to get me to do it a couple of years ago, and has been fairly persistant. Why? Probably becau...

I too only had hypopneas (20 per hour) during my sleep test, and only one of them put me into an o2 level of 77%, which automatically made the sleep doctor label me as severe. I call BS, because 77% of my o2 readings were 90% or above, which according to my research is normal. The rest of my o2 read...