Naptime

Hi everyone:

Haven't been on here too much lately, but checking up once in awhile. Anyways, I have to say that I guess I'm still one of the lucky ones - I've taken to xpap like a duck takes to water! Had a follow-up sleep study with xpap about two months ago, and my AHI has gone from 17 to 1.5 on the machine. They adjusted my pressure up 1 cm to 9. I've also changed my mask to an F & P Aclaim2 which had the hose going up over my head. I used a scrunchee to tie up the hose to the top of the headboard, and really can move around the pillow side to side without any trouble.
I really have to say that the changes from being on cpap have been profound and that I have become somewhat of a prosletyzer for the machine. So far I have convinced 3 people to go for sleep studies, and one is already on the machine. I really think that this is a condition which is totally unrecognized amongst most of the population, but which is having a profound impact on a lot of peoples' lives. Interestingly, the Canadian Jewish News newspaper had quite a large article this past week about OSA, so there is some publicity starting to get out there.
OHh yeah. I started this post to just say that I took a nap this afternoon (first one in a looooong time - just moved my office this past week, so I guess I was pretty tired out!) and I used the machine. I slept for about an hour and woke up feeling incredibly good, which didn't happen before the machine.
Anyways, best of luck to all, and to all the folks new to xpap, please stick with it, IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIVES!!!

Steve.

northernlights wrote: So far I have convinced 3 people to go for sleep studies, and one is already on the machine.

You may have saved this person from a heart attack,stroke or some other nasty apnea side effect.

Nice job!!!!!

I also seem to be one of the fortunate ones that have had very little trouble adjusting to xpap. So far, knock on wood, I look forward to hooking up and going to bed. I'm sure it's because the results have so massively overshadowed the inconvenience. I would contribute the majority of my success to all the incredibly helpful information I have gleaned from this board and all of it's wonderful users, along with a supplier who listened and altered my direction regarding mask choice. I have a friend who is pretty sure that his wife has sleep apnea. I have an old Puritan Bennett Companion 318 that was given to me that I would love to just give her, but I have no idea as to how to set the pressure. And even if I could, I wouldn't know what to set it at. I would loan her my RemStar Auto M for a sleep study - but that would mean I would have to tear down and then again rebuild the shrine - and I just have way to much time invested in all that neon! --- BT

With so many people having such a wide range of "adjustments" to make in order to tolerate cpap, I think that I'm also one of the lucky ones for adapting so quickly !
I knew from the moment that I woke up after the titration sleep study, I was never going back to pre-pap sleep! It was so wonderful to wake up clear-eyed, refreshed and full of energy! And like northernnights, I have convinced many friends and family to go get diagnosed!