I want inputs on my restoration of my brain dysfunction

Hi Guys on Cpaptalk, I want your inputs on my restoration of my brain dysfunction caused by sleep apnea. I guess I had sleep apnea 35 years ago which was diagnosed 8 years ago. After 8 years of CPAP treatment, I have experienced a lots of positive changes in terms of physical, emotional and mental conditions, including disappearance of depression and anxiety. But the main problems I have now are stress, long term memory and attention problems, brain fog,and other problems I may not know. However, I feel improvements in my brain power through good sleep every day with the help of CPAP machine. I don't know how fast and how much degree my brain function can be restored. I am worry about these issues because it affect my ability to secure a proper job I like. Any inputs will be appreciated.

Be sure to complete your user profile with equipment you are using.

The best way to achieve the best level of recovery possible is to optimize your therapy by using feedback from a good machine that provides data you can analyze and use to make changes, or reinforce the good things you're doing. Not all machines give useful data, but without it, all you know is hours of use and perhaps a AHI number. Once you complete a profile we can help you get those answers.

It's also possible the symptoms you describe involve health conditions beyond sleep apnea. That will require you to talk with your doctor and get diagnostic tests including hormone levels that might suggest some other things you can do to lift the fog. If you are depressed, that is another discussion you should have with your doctor, and can have every bit as much of a physical effect as apnea.

Wish you all the best, and please take the time to complete the profile and provide some additional details of your sleep apnea therapy like machine settings, mask type, problems, and things that are going well.

Many of us suffered from untreated apnea for years before getting "on the hose".
Odds are many will never be what we once were. The key is to focus on the positive.
It is what it is, we have to play the cards we are dealt.
I am so much better now than I was before, and that is a good thing. --a very good thing.

bcw88 wrote:Hi Guys on Cpaptalk, I want your inputs on my restoration of my brain dysfunction caused by sleep apnea. I guess I had sleep apnea 35 years ago which was diagnosed 8 years ago. After 8 years of CPAP treatment, I have experienced a lots of positive changes in terms of physical, emotional and mental conditions, including disappearance of depression and anxiety. But the main problems I have now are stress, long term memory and attention problems, brain fog,and other problems I may not know. However, I feel improvements in my brain power through good sleep every day with the help of CPAP machine. I don't know how fast and how much degree my brain function can be restored. I am worry about these issues because it affect my ability to secure a proper job I like. Any inputs will be appreciated.

All you are going to get here is speculation/guesses. No one can tell you how much brain function can be restored or how much has been restored previously. My GUESS would be that after 8 years of therapy you should have restored what ever was previously lost.

bcw88 wrote:Hi Guys on Cpaptalk, I want your inputs on my restoration of my brain dysfunction caused by sleep apnea. I guess I had sleep apnea 35 years ago which was diagnosed 8 years ago. After 8 years of CPAP treatment, I have experienced a lots of positive changes in terms of physical, emotional and mental conditions, including disappearance of depression and anxiety. But the main problems I have now are stress, long term memory and attention problems, brain fog,and other problems I may not know. However, I feel improvements in my brain power through good sleep every day with the help of CPAP machine. I don't know how fast and how much degree my brain function can be restored. I am worry about these issues because it affect my ability to secure a proper job I like. Any inputs will be appreciated.

Of great importance to me was to discover just how different we all are. This forum has helped to teach me that. We all tend to minimize this. Drug companies need minimize this because their product must reach the widest possible audience. That just one example. We all tend to ask what the symptoms of a particular flu are when the same bug can deliver very different experiences to many people. My experience so far has been that I cannot run from anxiety. My therapy is not optimum yet. I still can’t get more than 6 hours of sleep at a time, leading to naps during the day. I still have problems with phone numbers and names. It sounds like you are further ahead than I am. Is it possible that after 8 years you are impatient? Other people would disagree with this but then you may be one of those people that will improve still yet!

I agree that if you're sure (with software or another study) that your Cpap is now optimized, you need to look into other possible things that might be problems - with your doctor, because the list of possibilities is long when it comes to the kind of symptoms you're having and you can't really objectively sort them out yourself or assume it's all because of OSA. Good luck!

bcw88 wrote:Hi Guys on Cpaptalk, I want your inputs on my restoration of my brain dysfunction caused by sleep apnea. I guess I had sleep apnea 35 years ago which was diagnosed 8 years ago. After 8 years of CPAP treatment, I have experienced a lots of positive changes in terms of physical, emotional and mental conditions, including disappearance of depression and anxiety. But the main problems I have now are stress, long term memory and attention problems, brain fog,and other problems I may not know. However, I feel improvements in my brain power through good sleep every day with the help of CPAP machine. I don't know how fast and how much degree my brain function can be restored. I am worry about these issues because it affect my ability to secure a proper job I like. Any inputs will be appreciated.

How old are you?
Do/did you drink? ( alcoholic beverages ) ( and to what degree? )
Use drugs? ( or did you ever? )

Keep in mind that there are things that come (or go) with age and that may or may not be improved by this therapy.


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The only sure thing that would work is a Way Back Machine (Time travel), even if you never had sleep apnea are any other medical problems, we naturally lose mental abilitys.

The best we can do is keep our treatments working, and live each day to the best of our abilities. I have quit studying string theory, and quantum physics, now I just try to locate me truck keys and the T. V. Remote. Some days I actually find them. Jim

I think you put the truck keys on the second shelf in the fridge

I'd like to co-sign what's already been said about assuring your treatment is doing the best for you it can and looking into other possible contributors. Some general things to consider about your sleep... Is it ALWAYS with the machine? How many hours a night do you sleep? Does that sleep feel restful? How many times a night do you wake up? Since you are looking for answers, if your doctor tests you for other medical conditions, ask them about also testing you for any deficiencies that you might improve through diet or supplements. Good luck going forward. Hope you find some things you can do to improve your situation.

Oh, a question for you. When you say long term memory, are you saying trouble remembering things from past years when you had untreated sleep apnea? If you were not getting REM sleep, the events you experienced may not have been able to be stored well in your memory. Is that what you were saying?

TangledHose wrote:I think you put the truck keys on the second shelf in the fridge

oh, yes, and you need milk and eggs.

What is disconcerting about all this OSA is the complete lack of concern people often show for hard snoring and UARS. This forum does give due attention, but not enough (in my opinion). Recently I spoke to Mark at Secondwindcpap.com and a tech at our “regional” hospital. Both of these people tell me that heavy snoring reduces, often but not always, the amount of O2 your body is getting. This reduction is sometimes small, but significant over a long period of time. It leaves me to wonder if the oximeters are capable of showing as much detail as the sleep studies. The reason for my curiosity is that the tech can see the reduction in O2 with only snoring. If we consider what undetected UARS does to O2 levels then it is certainly worthwhile to consider that UARS or snoring (in the mask) is suspect.

Sad to say, but in this case asking how long you will take to heal is like asking how long you will live. You just have to stick around and find out what happens. Sorry to be a wet blanket.

LSAT wrote:

bcw88 wrote:Hi Guys on Cpaptalk, I want your inputs on my restoration of my brain dysfunction caused by sleep apnea. I guess I had sleep apnea 35 years ago which was diagnosed 8 years ago. After 8 years of CPAP treatment, I have experienced a lots of positive changes in terms of physical, emotional and mental conditions, including disappearance of depression and anxiety. But the main problems I have now are stress, long term memory and attention problems, brain fog,and other problems I may not know. However, I feel improvements in my brain power through good sleep every day with the help of CPAP machine. I don't know how fast and how much degree my brain function can be restored. I am worry about these issues because it affect my ability to secure a proper job I like. Any inputs will be appreciated.

All you are going to get here is speculation/guesses. No one can tell you how much brain function can be restored or how much has been restored previously. My GUESS would be that after 8 years of therapy you should have restored what ever was previously lost.

But I still feel my brain become clearer every day ,which means the restoration process is not completed

But I still feel my brain become clearer every day ,which means the restoration process is not completed

Use it! Play video games, read a lot, do puzzles.
Exercise.