Horrible mornings

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tetragon
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Horrible mornings

Post by tetragon » Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:23 pm

Are there any things that could help with not feeling awful in the morning after waking up? I'm not a big fan of having a headache in the morning, even if it is fairly mild and only for a couple hours. I also would rather wake up feeling awake for a change. I know that my arousal index from both my initial study and titration was in the low twenties. Based off of Zeo data, while I now have a decent sleep efficiency, I almost never stay in REM long enough for it to be logged (today had ten minutes). I still wake up more times than I'd like, but it doesn't take long to get back to sleep anymore.

Obligatory graphs from last night, I even included the lead up to the bathroom trip:
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JointPain
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Re: Horrible mornings

Post by JointPain » Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:50 pm

Perhaps your humidifier settings need a fine tuning?

I was having mildly annoying headaches in the morning that I was attributing to my chinstrap, but based on another thread about a week ago, I lowered my humidifier settings from 1.5 to 1.0. I haven't had any headaches since and the runny nose / sneezing fits haven't come back. I haven't changed anything else and it's probably been long enough now to believe that the lack of headaches can be attributed to the humidifier change.

I thought I had selected 1.5 previously and was happy with it. Perhaps I've changed. Perhaps the weather has changed. I don't know. Frankly, I'm a little surprised that such a small change would have such a big impact on how I feel.

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Re: Horrible mornings

Post by jedimark » Thu Nov 17, 2011 1:09 am

I'm in this same club..

I get a crappy dull foggy headache that sets in on opening my eyes in the morning, and lasts till I go to sleep.
Much worse in the mornings though. But I can bear it for the rest of the day. :-/

Every now and then I get a miracle day.. I only wish I could predict when it would happen.

The only time I seem guaranteed to be without one is when I've been intubated or just knocked out for a procedure on oxygen..
Which has happened twice in the past 2 weeks - lucky me

I'm very suspect of "groupings" of events being a cause, especially closer to wake-up time.. probably some of this is paranoia, but my groupings sometimes look very scary.

A scary example of my data in the new User Guide for S/H.. (was 4 days after appendix surgery, so a little dope might have been an issue..)
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/s ... sers_Guide

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