I just took 30 minute nap, headache ain't as bad

So I have a big cold and only got 30 minutes of sleep. However the headache is about 10x less than when I get more than 5 hours of sleep. When I get a full nights sleep my head feels like it's crushing. And it doesn't just go away when I wake up, it lingers on and on. The reason I am bringing this up is to try to justify why I think sleep apnea has something to do with my head hurting. How could it be that when I barely sleep I don't notice as crushing of a headache? When I sleep for hours, it feels crushing 100 percent of the time. This is NOT just a coincidence. This is how it always is. This has made me realize that the head pressure comes from sleep or bad breathing during sleep. But if I sleep less as in only getting a 30 minute nap, my head is not going to feel as crushed. Of course I'm not rested by any means because getting 30 minutes of sleep isn't what my body needs either.

Should this convince me that sleep and my headaches are directly related? I can't think of any more evidence that I would need. My bad headaches always come from waking up. That's why I always said it's hard for me to recover from the pressure during the day. It's not that I'm lacking blood or circulation, it's just that my head feels the pressure. It's a very crushing sensation. Right now it's not super crushing but that's because I barely slept. I took a light nap. However the trade off is that I don't get adequate rest. I don't think 15 to 30 minutes of napping can heal your body like 6 to 8 hours of proper sleep. I have never actually slept adequately and woken up feeling fine. My head always has a hard time recovering from waking up.

Enough already... same stuff over and over and we answer and you don't respond to answers, don't seem to take them in, and won't be patient about waiting for machine. We're mostly old(er) and tired too, if not from OSA, then life. Really.

Julie wrote:Enough already... same stuff over and over and we answer and you don't respond to answers, don't seem to take them in, and won't be patient about waiting for machine. We're mostly old(er) and tired too, if not from OSA, then life. Really.

I don't think I talked much about getting a 30 min sleep and noticing the contrast. I actually felt like this was a breakthrough.

This is not Twitter. PLEASE give it a rest.
Thirty minutes is not enough time for a full sleep cycle.
Apparently you never reached the stages where you have the worst apneas.
These are also the stages that you NEED the most for rest and recovery.

Why is it so important to you that you convince us that your headaches are related to sleep apnea...or are you trying to convince yourself?

Your headaches very well could be related to sleep apnea and once you get your machine and start using it then if they are related to sleep apnea then the headaches will likely reduce or go away. Pretty simple.
The ONLY way to know is to use the machine...plain and simple.

Oh..BTW...I had those killer headaches from sleep apnea but I also have/had bad headaches from a bad neck.
The sleep apnea headaches went away but the bad neck headaches still pop up every now and then.
Sometimes a headache is just a headache. Get your machine and use it...that's the only way to know for sure if your headaches are related to the sleep apnea or not. Cross that bridge when/if you come to it.
Or continue creating unneeded stress and anxiety worrying about things that you have no control over at the present time if that is what you can't seem to avoid doing.

Oh another BTW...this thing about humidifiers...it's all personal preference as to what your nasal mucosa wants or needs. You won't have any idea at all as to what your nasal mucosa will want or need until you actually get your machine and use it. You may be like Julie and not need much or any extra moisture or you may be like me and need all you can get or you may be in the middle of Julie and myself in terms of moisture needs.
If you want to read something that isn't hard to understand and might help you understand this humidity thing...
google "cpap rhinitis" and start reading.

Enchanter wrote:So I have a big cold and only got 30 minutes of sleep. However the headache is about 10x less than when I get more than 5 hours of sleep.

bla bla blah bla bla bla bla bla and more so...

You should really do something else... someone suggested Twitter... In case you don't know how to get to twitter... https://twitter.com

Krelvin wrote:

Enchanter wrote:So I have a big cold and only got 30 minutes of sleep. However the headache is about 10x less than when I get more than 5 hours of sleep.

bla bla blah bla bla bla bla bla and more so...

You should really do something else... someone suggested Twitter... In case you don't know how to get to twitter... https://twitter.com

I feel a headache coming on... but I don't think it's from lack of oxygen, too much co2, or anything related to my sleeping, or cpap...

chunkyfrog wrote:This is not Twitter. PLEASE give it a rest.
Thirty minutes is not enough time for a full sleep cycle.
Apparently you never reached the stages where you have the worst apneas.
These are also the stages that you NEED the most for rest and recovery.

Just took a longer 2 hour nap though. Yup, I feel the headache back. It HAS to have something to do with sleep. This is like sun comes up, sun comes down type of thing.

No please do not put words in my mouth. Twitter is different. People don't understand I guess. I can't even get into that. Please don't say that. What you have to realize is that this is life or death. If I do get my problem resolved, it won't be mentioned again. But unfortunately I haven't been able to get into a deep sleep with the CPAP yet. I'm not writing anything different than what others are writing, you might think so though.

Enchanter wrote:

chunkyfrog wrote:This is not Twitter.

No please do not put words in my mouth. Twitter is different.

nobody could put words in your mouth, there's no pushing back against the torrent.

please stop treating this forum as if it were twitter, yours to vomit forth every insignificant thing that you care about.

now it's "oh, I'm precious, I took a nap, aren't you fascinated" what's next, "I farted! you people should be amazed!"

I had a roommate once that loved telling people when he farted.

"People don't understand I guess. I can't even get into that. What you have to realize is that this is life or death".

Really? What the hell do you think the rest of us are doing here? And so many of us are a lot worse off than you, but don't spend their life updating us all on every twitch and itch! Do you not get that we've gone so far out of our way to help you, but you're the most bottomless pit of neediness there is! Get over yourself and your symptoms, go help someone else for a change, do something useful even if you don't feel terrific right now... the rest of us live that way for years, and somehow manage to do it! There is only so much self-involvement we can take from one person - and you don't even have a machine yet (we all shudder to think what will happen here when you do have it). You've cried wolf 100 x too often and when you have your machine and really do need help with some particular feature do you think anyone here will be inclined to respond? So you have a headache today... big deal!

palerider wrote:

Enchanter wrote:

chunkyfrog wrote:This is not Twitter.

No please do not put words in my mouth. Twitter is different.

nobody could put words in your mouth, there's no pushing back against the torrent.

please stop treating this forum as if it were twitter, yours to vomit forth every insignificant thing that you care about.

now it's "oh, I'm precious, I took a nap, aren't you fascinated" what's next, "I farted! you people should be amazed!"

I had a roommate once that loved telling people when he farted.

No, you are the one worrying about insignificant things. If I didn't post certain things, I wouldn't have gotten certain answers. And these answers could save my life. It blows my mind how what I post bothers you in the slightest. You see one of my posts, and 100 others on a page. Why do you even respond to me???? I don't care about YOU, I don't respond to your posts. What's your deal dude? I don't care about you, get over yourself! Why are you obsessed with me and private messaging me as well? Stop telling me to do something else, when you're the one obsessed talking to me for NO reason. Congratulations on your roommate farting, cool, whatever dude. Jesus Christ.

I see the bullies are out in full force today. Anyway, as RobySue previously mentioned:

I don't expect everybody on this board to have the patience to deal with people like Enchanter. And I understand why most people do NOT have the patience to deal with someone like Enchanter. But I would like the people who don't have that kind patience to not get in the way. In other words, if you run out of patience in dealing with a newbie, the proper thing to do is to Just Not Respond to the newbie's threads anymore. Seriously. If all you want to do is post clever insults, it's best to Just Not Respond. Let the people who have more patience deal with the exasperating newbies who irritate the daylights out of you.

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Julie wrote:"People don't understand I guess. I can't even get into that. What you have to realize is that this is life or death".

Really? What the hell do you think the rest of us are doing here? And so many of us are a lot worse off than you, but don't spend their life updating us all on every twitch and itch! Do you not get that we've gone so far out of our way to help you, but you're the most bottomless pit of neediness there is! Get over yourself and your symptoms, go help someone else for a change, do something useful even if you don't feel terrific right now... the rest of us live that way for years, and somehow manage to do it! There is only so much self-involvement we can take from one person - and you don't even have a machine yet (we all shudder to think what will happen here when you do have it). You've cried wolf 100 x too often and when you have your machine and really do need help with some particular feature do you think anyone here will be inclined to respond? So you have a headache today... big deal!

Julie, did I cry wolf?

Well, maybe not 'wolf', but many things, many times... every little thing that comes into your head about this business. Get a grip, it'll all be ok soon, just like it was for most of us, and while there will probably be things that need tweaking and working on, it's not life and death this week... most of us have been shlepping along one way or another for years, griping about this and that, but the vast majority of us are still here, still fussing maybe, but still here. And you're a lot younger than most. That doesn't mean you're worse off, just that when we were your age, no one knew or talked about OSA, so we've all had it a lot longer and still survived. Just give it a rest for a bit... not every single little aspect that comes into your head needs addressing right this minute.

Julie wrote:Well, maybe not 'wolf', but many things, many times... every little thing that comes into your head about this business. Get a grip, it'll all be ok soon, just like it was for most of us, and while there will probably be things that need tweaking and working on, it's not life and death this week... most of us have been shlepping along one way or another for years, griping about this and that, but the vast majority of us are still here, still fussing maybe, but still here. And you're a lot younger than most. That doesn't mean you're worse off, just that when we were your age, no one knew or talked about OSA, so we've all had it a lot longer and still survived. Just give it a rest for a bit... not every single little aspect that comes into your head needs addressing right this minute.

That's true.