How long have you been using your xPAP machine?

SheZAAM! · Post by **SheZAAM!** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:31 pm

Just curious....

SheZAAM! · Post by **SheZAAM!** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:32 pm

My one month "anniversary" is tomorrow.

Slinky · Post by **Slinky** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:52 pm

10 months for the VPAP but 27 months since starting CPAP. But who's counting? Its working. I'm sleeping.

JayC · Post by **JayC** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 7:10 pm

6 month anniversary is tonight (July 18 to Jan 18).....I said 6 mo to 12 mo bracket...

APAP first and only machine

Although, undiagnosed sleep disordered breathing since puberty (30+ years ago!!!)

J

6PtStar · Post by **6PtStar** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 7:31 pm

Slinky wrote:10 months for the VPAP but 27 months since starting CPAP. But who's counting? Its working. I'm sleeping.

You have me by one month. 26 months for me. I'm not counting either.

Jerry

Bets · Post by **Bets** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 7:35 pm

SheZAAM! wrote:My one month "anniversary" is tomorrow.

Mine too!

RipVW · Post by **RipVW** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 7:37 pm

Two and a half years for me! Year one was not so good, then I found you guys, been great ever since then when I learned that I had to take control of my therapy. Hooray for cpaptalk.com!!

plr66 · Post by **plr66** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 7:38 pm

This is funny. Nobody's counting, but everyone who responds, knows their number of months. Yeah, I'm grateful for every hour on cpap, and have loved having it since I started at the beginning of September. And I'm counting!!

TheDreamer · Post by **TheDreamer** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 7:41 pm

3 weeks tomorrow.

The Dreamer

JeffH · Post by **JeffH** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 7:42 pm

10 years the 23th of December.

JeffH

plr66 · Post by **plr66** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 7:44 pm

Wow, JeffH, I didn't know that cpap was even around 10 years ago. Lucky you.

JeffH · Post by **JeffH** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 7:48 pm

plr66 wrote:Wow, JeffH, I didn't know that cpap was even around 10 years ago. Lucky you.

Was invented in 1981 if I'm not mistaken. Still got my old beat up Sullivan V to prove it...LOL.

JeffH

wlenz · Post by **wlenz** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 9:01 pm

Started April 26th with a BiPAP, no data card, but it did improve my sleep. I wanted to do better, convinced doc to prescribe Auto Bi-PAP with smart card. Now I am sleeping better. Lots of thanks to cpaptalk people, all of you made the difference between good sleep and best possible sleep. Special thanks to RestedGal. She gave me lots of reading material and help getting a better machine.
Bill

Debjax · Post by **Debjax** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 9:04 pm

JayC wrote:Although, undiagnosed sleep disordered breathing since puberty (30+ years ago!!!)J

After researching and reviewing, I realized that I have had apnea since I was about 8 years old right after my tonsils and adenoids were removed. I can remember waking up in the middle of the night short of breath and having to take deep breaths to "recover" at least a few times a night starting about then. By the time I was in my late teens, I didn't wake up gasping for air every night, but did have that happen on occasion over the years. It was also about then that I became "NOT a morning person", struggling to wake up in the morning, having zip energy and yawning all day long. My short term memory has been zip for about as long as I can remember, and there are huge blocks of my childhood that are just "gone" from the memory bank...I have not been able to remember them since I was in my late teens. I became depressed (and slightly bi-polar) by the time I was 16. I've had generic health problems for decades that I can probably now tie directly to apnea.

I had a client in for training this week and we were talking about sleep disorders and not being a morning person. He mentioned his young daughter has recently started waking up in the morning with headaches, is having trouble staying awake during the day and yawns all the time. We discussed apnea and how it is now being found in children and that what he is describing.....well, suffice it to say, he's getting the doc to order a sleep study for her.

GumbyCT · Post by **GumbyCT** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 9:34 pm

Coming up on 2yrs. for me....stay tuned

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