memory and cognitive skills

anyone had success in these areas GREATLY improving since using a cpap

Are you really using the software you have showing in your equipment profile?

chi wrote: ↑

Fri May 10, 2019 9:57 pm

anyone had success in these areas GREATLY improving since using a cpap

Yes, very much so, but not until after my treatment was optimized and I was able to use it consistently and was getting decent sleep.

My memory has been getting worse recently but I put that down to "old" age (46).

kteague wrote: ↑

Sat May 11, 2019 10:55 pm

chi wrote: ↑

Fri May 10, 2019 9:57 pm

anyone had success in these areas GREATLY improving since using a cpap

Yes, very much so, but not until after my treatment was optimized and I was getting decent sleep. I was and still am 100% compliant since picking up my equipment August 2007.

Ditto. I was a tech writer for companies producing very sophisticated, very large systems, one system was self-learning, who sat in on design meetings with our customers to ensure requirements were completely understood by both sides ( I was a trained JAD scribe). I wrote design specs as well as field engineering guides. As my undiagnosed sleep apnea worsened, my use of spoken words was also failing...yikes, I understood but was saying wrong words (like aphasa) and confusing listeners. Thank goodness, my writing was not affected and I understood most of what I read (had to give up a subscription to Scientific American, articles too wordy and too complex) -- it was speaking that was a problem...at first. Then, my short-term memory became unreliable and Post-it Notes and a notepad went everywhere I went. In my personal life, if tasks, errands and a grocery list were NOT written on a 4x6 index card, I usually forgot whatever it was. I forgot recipes I had created! I forgot how to make gravy and grits (oh lordy, they almost kicked me out of the South ). I fell asleep whenever lights were dimmed. I got up to pee hourly so my sleep was as horrible as it was fragmented and my sleep study noted my snoring as profound .

Like Kay, after months of good, restful sleep, my cognitive issues began to be restored and much of my long-term memories recalled with ease, alas some are permanently gone, I dread hearing Remember when... from family . My brain is very slow to adapt to change so your results might come faster. By 24 months, 95% of my cognitive problems were eliminated as well all the verbal language issues, and I was in my 50s then so aging was not a factor in my recovery.