Victory is mine! I managed to sleep with the MAD last night without taking any drugs! My wife said I did not snore! Woohoo!

I did return the CPAP months ago. I just never bothered to update my profile. I kind of want to keep that up, just to remember what I had, in case I ever need that information again.

I took Ambien on Friday and Saturday and slept through both nights with the device. I haven’t tried since then. I plan to try again on Friday and Saturday but this time I will take Benadryl or melatonin instead, to see if I can pull it off with some milder. Assuming that works the following weekend ...

I managed to sleep through the whole night with my MAD! I took Ambien to fall asleep, but I stayed asleep and woke up feeling okay! Woohoo! I will attempt a drug free attempt after a few more successful drug induced nights. My wife said I still snored, but it was definitely quieter.

I’ve always found it weird that dentists are considered to be a totally different profession than medical doctors, as opposed to considering them as medical doctors who specialize in the mouth. In the USA insurance always seems to require CPAP first. I don’t know if I could have gotten it to (partia...

I would gladly get rid of mine if it would let me sleep without snoring.

Interestingly in the USA when dentists do MADs, they bill health insurance policies, NOT dental insurance. The guy who fitted me for a MAD is both a Dentist AND a medical doctor! When I had my consultation he was able to see if taking my tonsils out would be a viable solution, but unfortunately they...

Insurance may cover part of the MAD. Mine paid for half of it. I can pay for the other half with Pretax money in Flexible Savings Account, so that helps as well. Hopefully I will be able to use it.

I struggled with difficulty falling asleep for most of my life. I successfully used some sleep hygiene techniques to largely tame (but not eliminate) the insomnia monster. To tame the beast I needed a certain amount of rigidity in my night time schedule. Things like no caffeine after 2:00pm, so offi...

I returned the CPAP machine months ago. I just paid $400 towards my cost of the oral appliance. I do wonder if it would have been smarter to just pay the $2,000 for eXcite OSA. I guess I will find out soon enough.

I got fitted for the oral device last weekend, but it probably won’t be available until January, so we will see if I and wasting over $800 or not on it (insurance paid for half).

I tried CPAP for 3 months. I managed to fall asleep a total of 4 times during this period, and I was drugged for each of those. The last time I tried to use the CPAP I took Ambien and still couldn’t fall asleep so I returned it. Like you my AHI is fairly low so the health risk of doing nothing for m...

Thanks for the advice. Since there is no insurance monitoring requirement I plan to gradually ease my way into it by wearing it awake. I won’t attempt to sleep with it until I get to the point where having it in my mouth doesn’t totally bother me. Then I will wait till the weekend, since I tend to h...

Yes. CPAP is awful, most patients quit within the first year, yet for some bizarre reason people call it “The Gold Standard.” I am surprised that anyone can actually fall sleep using one. I tried CPAP for 3 months. The sensation of something touching my face prevents me from physically being able to...

I knew CPAP would not work for me many, many years ago. Like most people with sleep apnea I found the treatment (CPAP) to be worse than the disease. I DID learn a lot from this website, so thanks to many of you. Can I use an oral appliance? I doubt it, but I don’t actually know. If the insurance won...