General Discussion on any topic relating to CPAP and/or Sleep Apnea.
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BlackSpinner
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by BlackSpinner » Sun Jun 27, 2010 5:58 pm
fuhrtops wrote:I've been on CPAP since Monday and I feel I'm sleeping worse than when I started. I still wake up several times, don't dream, and now I'm sleepy in the morning when I do get up. Anybody out there who can assure me that it will get better. Please. Thank you.
You know you took more then a week to get into this shape.
For years your brain has been keeping you alive by not letting you sleep deeply. So in one week it is not going to say to itself "well now he has this weird thing on his face we can sleep all we want" No - it has to learn to trust that you will keep breathing because /in spite of the thing on your face. Say you started working out heavily on monday - would you expect to be a size smaller and full of energy today?
71. The lame can ride on horseback, the one-handed drive cattle. The deaf, fight and be useful. To be blind is better than to be burnt on the pyre. No one gets good from a corpse. The Havamal
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Junaid
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by Junaid » Mon Jun 28, 2010 3:34 am
it can take way more than a couple of weeks. Im approaching 8months and still battling with getting the cpap to work 100%.
staying positive is key and keep at it!
nothing worth having comes easy!!
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Julie
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by Julie » Mon Jun 28, 2010 5:08 am
Oh sure it does Junaid! What about flowers, birds, the surf, baby's laughter,:D blah blah blah?
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Junaid
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by Junaid » Mon Jun 28, 2010 5:22 am
Julie wrote:Oh sure it does Junaid! What about flowers, birds, the surf, baby's laughter,:D blah blah blah?
I guess ur right!!!
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Vladesch
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by Vladesch » Mon Jun 28, 2010 6:16 am
I guess Ive been pretty fortunate with adapting to the machine. I had much difficulty sleeping the first night with it, and again the second night. By the third night I slept pretty much normally, and since then its been absolutely wonderful. Ive been on it now for about 2 months, and I feel better than I have felt for 20... 30 years? Its impossible to say really.
Definitely stick with it. It is truly lifechanging.
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
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fuhrtops
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by fuhrtops » Mon Jun 28, 2010 8:00 am
Thank you all for your advice. Last night I actually slept until my alarm went off. I hadn't done that in...years. So that is encouraging. Thanks again.
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DreamOn
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by DreamOn » Mon Jun 28, 2010 9:39 am
fuhrtops wrote:Thank you all for your advice. Last night I actually slept until my alarm went off. I hadn't done that in...years. So that is encouraging. Thanks again.
Wonderful!!!
