Newbie stomach sleeper

Hang Fire wrote:Wow! What a thread!

Toonew, You are now in the wrong forum. These people in this forum are great with all matters CPAP. Consider ceasing to waste their time and instead take your woes and stinking attitude to
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When you are healed, come back here for help with CPAP.

I was waiting for you to show up - there's at least one in every forum I have ever belonged to - and that's a lot of forums over many, many years.

Just to save you time, anything YOU say from now on will be instantly ignored.

Have a great day.

What have you accomplished in this thread? Nothing but digging your woe-is-me hole deeper.

This is a CPAP forum. Take your attitude issues to one of the mental health forums.

You might also want to do something about your back. Amazing back surgeries have become routine over the last 15 years or so.

TooNew wrote: Oh, and all 3 issues have happened in the last 4 years. Prior to that, I had zero issues, so give please me some leeway to feel pissed off (not at anyone here, just life in general).

Feel free to be as pissed off as you want to. But sooner or later you have to realize that being pissed doesn't accomplish anything.

You are hardly the first person to have a cluster of health issues happen in a short amount of time. You are hardly the first person who is skinny to have a cluster of health issues that are typically related to being overweight crop in a short amount of time.

So being pissed is not new.

The question is whether you can see a way past being pissed and listen to your doctors and your wife about the need to treat your OSA and the reasonableness behind the idea of at least trying out CPAP therapy first.

But as you said: Nobody can force you to try CPAP. The choice really is up to you:

• You can continue to be miserable and short tempered and sleep deprived while going through the long process of getting a second opinion and getting screened for painful, invasive surgery that may or may not fix the problem.

Or

• You can try CPAP and still work through the long process of getting a second opinion and getting screened for surgery if CPAP turns out to be as dreadful as you fear it to be.

But please understand: Here at cpaptalk, we're a forum dedicated to helping people make CPAP work. And as such, we're NOT going to tell people that it's ok to not even try CPAP. Rather, we're going to tell people that CPAP is well worth trying because we know CPAP can work and can work exceptionally well if a new PAPer is willing to do the necessary troubleshooting. In other words, we know that most people can learn how to sleep well with a CPAP if they really want to, and we also know that a typical OSA sufferer who sleeps well with CPAP every night, all night long is going to feel good during the daytime---as they'll in wake up feeling rested most days and have plenty of energy to get through the day and accomplish what they want to accomplish.

robysue wrote:

TooNew wrote: Oh, and all 3 issues have happened in the last 4 years. Prior to that, I had zero issues, so give please me some leeway to feel pissed off (not at anyone here, just life in general).

Feel free to be as pissed off as you want to. But sooner or later you have to realize that being pissed doesn't accomplish anything.

You are hardly the first person to have a cluster of health issues happen in a short amount of time. You are hardly the first person who is skinny to have a cluster of health issues that are typically related to being overweight crop in a short amount of time.

So being pissed is not new.

Are you sure about that?

Or

• You can try CPAP and still work through the long process of getting a second opinion and getting screened for surgery if CPAP turns out to be as dreadful as you fear it to be.

But please understand: Here at cpaptalk, we're a forum dedicated to helping people make CPAP work. And as such, we're NOT going to tell people that it's ok to not even try CPAP. Rather, we're going to tell people that CPAP is well worth trying because we know CPAP can work and can work exceptionally well if a new PAPer is willing to do the necessary troubleshooting. In other words, we know that most people can learn how to sleep well with a CPAP if they really want to, and we also know that a typical OSA sufferer who sleeps well with CPAP every night, all night long is going to feel good during the daytime---as they'll in wake up feeling rested most days and have plenty of energy to get through the day and accomplish what they want to accomplish.

I have been reading through the sticky that was recommended (up through page 14 so far) and am simultaneously discouraged and encouraged.

It seems very few people adapt quickly (first night), some number adapt in weeks, but most seem to take months to work through all the problems, so that is somewhat discouraging.

OTOH, for the people it works for (most), the reports of no more headaches, having energy again, feeling rested, etc., etc., it sounds very encouraging.

I suppose logic dictates I at least try it while waiting for the full report and while pursuing any other option (as you said). I still dread it, but Friday will be telling (my titration sleep test). From what I have read, I may come home with a setup and not have to wait (in my particular case). In which case, I will be (hopefully) a member of this forum and potentially begging for advice. I applied to be a member several days ago but have not been accepted yet.

FWIW which isn't much. I adapted fairly easily to cpap despite the titration sleep study from hell.
I slept poorly for various reasons at the titration study...some just bed luck and some because I had the lab tech from Hell.

Pretty much saw immediate results in terms of no more having to pee 4 or 5 times a night and the morning killer headaches went away. Just having those issues alone not bother me any more has made cpap therapy a more than worth it thing. Took just a little bit of tweaking with the pressures because I came out of the titration study with a pressure setting not quite optimal for me. Mainly because my OSA is worse in REM and I only got 6 minutes of REM during the titration study. Took me all of a week to get that done and most of that was waiting on the software (had to buy it and wait for the disc) and now the software is free and immediate.

The energy level thing...that's still a work in progress but I have other health issues that affect my sleep quality that the best cpap therapy in the world can't fix because those issues aren't related to sleep apnea.