First night with new machine

Evan · Post by **Evan** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 6:22 am

Fired my DME last week and returned their cheap equipment to them. The last few days without therapy have been just aweful. I've never been so sleep-deprived in my life. Anyhow, got my Auto with A-flex and Breeze mask yesterday afternoon from cpap.com and broke it in with a two hour nap. Slept all night without waking up and I finally feel human again. I need to set the machine to show data but it shows I got 9.5 hours-yay!

cflame1 · Post by **cflame1** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 6:24 am

Welcome... sounds good too

Make sure that you fill out your profile with machine and mask information.

tangents · Post by **tangents** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 6:30 am

Good for you, Evan! I hope you get more and more rested as time goes by. Welcome to the forum.

Take Care,
Cathy

NightHawkeye · Post by **NightHawkeye** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 7:35 am

Evan wrote:Fired my DME last week and returned their cheap equipment to them.

Somehow, I suspect they deserved even harsher punishment.

Evan wrote:The last few days without therapy have been just aweful. I've never been so sleep-deprived in my life.

Doesn't take long to appreciate CPAP sometimes. Glad you got through it OK.

Note to new members: Return lousy DME equipment, only after arrival of most excellent replacement equipment from CPAP.com.

Evan wrote:Anyhow, got my Auto with A-flex and Breeze mask yesterday afternoon from cpap.com and broke it in with a two hour nap. Slept all night without waking up and I finally feel human again. I need to set the machine to show data but it shows I got 9.5 hours-yay!

Good for you, Evan.

Regards,
Bill

sleepycarol · Post by **sleepycarol** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 7:57 am

Yea!! Congratulations on getting the equipment you deserve!!

May you have many more restful nights!!!!!

ozij · Post by **ozij** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:07 am

Congratulations, Evan. And let us know what you pressure setup is as well.

O.

Evan · Post by **Evan** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:30 am

I was so sleep-deprived I was forgetting things and making mistakes at work. I was starting to shut down mentally. Today after 9.5 hours i feel a little floaty. Must be nap time.

My sleep study showed an AHI of 85. Pressure of 14. I don't think my pressure was set high enough when I was using cpap. When I woke up this morning the pressure was 11.7. I'll have to enable data to get the rest of the picture. Thanks to this site I know how to do that!

tangents · Post by **tangents** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:13 pm

Evan,

Just remember that this therapy is a journey, rather than a destination. My experience was that once I started sleeping with CPAP, I couldn't get enough sleep. My average compliance since March of 2007 is 8.5 hours per night. And my machine does not count the first 30 minutes in its compliance data, so that means an average of 9 hours per night! I was sleeping 11-12 hours on the weekends and whenever I could. Your body needs to heal itself from any damages that may have occurred before CPAP, so be patient and baby yourself for a while. Don't expect overnight dramatic changes - although some experience very rapid recovery.

I copied this from the forum member KTEAGUE, because I thought it was beautifully written and very applicable to me, personally. I deleted the reference to the other member, and changed one of the pronouns to "person".

I have a theory of sorts, or actually, just my own experience. Before cpap I invested every ounce of available strength to just keep functioning day to day. Once that effort was futile and I quit fighting (I quit working), the resultant crash was overpowering. I have to say I must have been an amazingly strong person to have fought so long against what I felt when I crashed.

There is a certain "letting down the guard" for some who go on cpap and allow themselves to place hope in it. I think this leaves some new cpap users vulnerable to experience that crash, and once it happens, the body will require a time of healing and recovery.

Maybe it was just me. But I don't think I'm too far off base thinking that some who feel so horrible after starting treatment are going thru a crash and burn phase. Of course that's assuming pressures, settings, masks, etc. are therapeutic and not a cause of the problem.

...give yourself some time to recover from long time trauma to your body. Your sleep time is excellent for maintenance, but does not provide extra for recovery. Enjoy some extra rest knowing soon you will be able to be the [person] you desire to be.

Be sure to keep learning from this forum, and post your questions as they come up. That will help keep your therapy optimized.

Take Care,
Cathy

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