General Discussion on any topic relating to CPAP and/or Sleep Apnea.
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SDBud
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by SDBud » Sat Jun 01, 2019 11:13 pm
CreativeChris wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 9:18 am
Hello guys!
As I have posted before I have heart failure and have had a battle between the drugs and living. I have decided to make radical changes in my life and work completely remotely. Thankfully as a developer and designer I have this option. This will afford me more time to focus on my health and well being rather than spend 10-12 hours in front of 4 monitors.
As far as experience do you see a big difference with blood pressure and sleeping longer than 6-7 hours? My ultimate goal is to get off at least a couple drugs, lose some weight, and not constantly be gasping for air walking up subway stairs 4 times a day. Also while mentally I feel a million times better and can think more clearly thanks to nightly full time use of CPAP I still can't seem to keep my heart healthy and was wondering how long before the CPAP benefits cardiovascular health.
I was diagnosed with congestive heart failure not long after I was ALSO hit with sleep apnea, and about a year after being told I had AFib.
Used the cpap machine with some effectiveness before I had a triple bypass, but to GREAT effect after the bypass, would NOT sleep without it now.
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dogsarelife
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by dogsarelife » Mon Jun 03, 2019 11:37 am
SDBud wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2019 11:13 pm
I was diagnosed with congestive heart failure not long after I was ALSO hit with sleep apnea, and about a year after being told I had AFib.
Used the cpap machine with some effectiveness before I had a triple bypass, but to GREAT effect after the bypass, would NOT sleep without it now.
Congrats SDBud - I think it was you who I was thinking of from the success stories, when I first wrote my response to Chris.
sometimes in order to succeed it just takes one more try. and a lot of frustration along the way.
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by dogsarelife » Mon Jun 03, 2019 11:38 am
Congratulations to Chris! hope your health continues to improve.
CreativeChris wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2019 5:32 pm
Sorry for the long time since you posted this! Since I was last on I started working from home which DRASTICALLY reduced my stress. I now have time to truly monitor my food and get in actual exercise. I told my cardio that I wanted off at least one of the drugs (cozzar) which was making me drag and put me on Bystolic which is FAR better. I'm not in a constant fog and the wooden feeling is gone. My BP is still stable and a recent cardiac MRI shows higher EF which is truly amazing to me. I was taking Ubiquenol and stopped after I ran out maybe 6 months ago. I will order more. I wanted to take hawthorne for my heart but my cardio told me to hold off as it may interfere with the drugs... Maybe after I lose more weight I'll try it.
sometimes in order to succeed it just takes one more try. and a lot of frustration along the way.
