Mental Health Improve?

[djams]

Yes on mental health improvement. These are quotes from my family:
"Thank you for finally going to the dr., it's making a big difference. Not just the snoring" - my wife
"You're reminding me of the dad I had when I was a kid" - 32 year old daughter
"You're like a different person dad." - 30 year old daughter (meant in a good way )

There are dozens of other little observations I've made about positive changes in my behavior and attitude.

Yes. It helps with mental health.

[Sissy63]

Yes on mental health improvement. These are quotes from my family:
"Thank you for finally going to the dr., it's making a big difference. Not just the snoring" - my wife
"You're reminding me of the dad I had when I was a kid" - 32 year old daughter
"You're like a different person dad." - 30 year old daughter (meant in a good way )

There are dozens of other little observations I've made about positive changes in my behavior and attitude.

Yes. It helps with mental health.

I am glad you are feeling better and your loved ones have noticed!

[djams]

I am glad you are feeling better and your loved ones have noticed!

Thank you! I am very glad too!

[Sissy63]

I'll let others talk with you about machine data. In general regarding getting an APAP, knowing where the effectiveness of your treatment stands could help you know what to push for. Someone on a relatively low pressure will not be so likely to benefit from a auto adjusting pressure. What is your pressure? What is your AHI on the machine screen? Early only on when I came here I became focused on getting an APAP as the holy grail. I hoped it would solve my treatment problems. While the APAP I got did provide a bit more data, it turned out to not be of treatment benefit. The pressure I needed the moment I fell asleep was within a digit of what it took to treat me when I rolled on my back or hit REM. I only say this to say check out the details of what is going on with you. Your answer may or may not lie in gettting an APAP. Now true, it would be better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. But if getting your machine swapped out is going to be a major deal, you may want to weigh its value. I would be more concerned with what data you can get than the mode of treatment unless you see need to think otherwise. Maybe your titration report holds some clues as to the effectiveness of pressures in differing positions and sleep stages. Your description of how you feel makes me think your treatment may not yet be optimized.

My current pressure is 13.

[chunkyfrog]

I was diagnosed and started cpap at about the same age as you.
After only 4 months, my boss remarked that my concentration and memory had vastly improved.
My family noticed that my disposition/temperament was far better than before.
Crappy sleep had turned me into a monster. CPAP turned me into a happy froggie.

[Bigtonguehypopnea]

Yes. Big improvement in mental health.

I resisted anti-depressants for years until I became totally disabled and living with a relative. I was convinced I had sleep apnea and not depression. I finally got a sleep study when I agreed to take a prescription for an anti-depressant and think about it, but I didn't end up taking the anti-depressant. The CPAP improved my mood a great deal, but not so much that I didn't eventually break down and try an anti-depressant, when helped even more. Even so, I've been admitted to the psyche unit several times over the years and every single one of those times was preceded by a period of not using my CPAP because I had a cold, or the bridge of my nose was totally raw, or some other reason. So for me, it was like both my depression and my disordered breathing during sleep were so severe that the combination of the two would throw me over the edge. Treating both kept me patched together, enough to stay out of the hospital anyway.