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Been on CPAP for only four nights now. Before starting therapy had over 40 apnea's per hour during sleep test. Was a walking zomby. Could hardly make it to work, stay awake at work. Did nothing but want to sleep. No sex drive and when I had some drive, ED every time. After fourth night had .5 apnea's per hour. Not perfectly well ofcourse but noticed immediate energy until afternoon. Sex drive came back after fourth night and absolutely no ED. Give me a few weeks to a few months and I think I'll become a porn star. Thank God for finally finding out I had sleep apnea. I want to live. I want to sleep and love every day I have.

I don't mind having a sex drive after a night of CPAP, but I usually just have a normal breakfast. Jim

Hi there - yes! I noticed a massive increase in my libido and I've only been using the CPAP for less than a week. Great surprise!

deb1087 wrote:Hi there - yes! I noticed a massive increase in my libido and I've only been using the CPAP for less than a week. Great surprise!

Hmmm...!!!

Does anyone know a way to put a mask on a sleeping wife without waking her?

Blindrage wrote:

deb1087 wrote:Hi there - yes! I noticed a massive increase in my libido and I've only been using the CPAP for less than a week. Great surprise!

Hmmm...!!!

Does anyone know a way to put a mask on a sleeping wife without waking her?

Cpap seems to increase one's zest for all the good things of life.
Hooray!

My wife and I prefer to walk rather than drive. There's no rush.

I think this is highly individualized. With many folks with OSA, their general health is so deteriorated before CPAP, sex is no longer a priority. Or a reality due to the hormonal changes that come with aging and deterioration of health that goes hand in hand with OSA.

That being said, if you are male and catch your OSA at a reasonably young age (thirties to forties) or if you are one of these guys who naturally has a tendency to have high testosterone levels, CPAP might restore your sexuality. Particularly if you simultaneously work hard on improving your general health and stop doing things that contribute to OSA (losing weight if you are obese, starting to exercise aerobically, smoking cessation if needed, stop drinking booze, on and on).

In short, the answer is, "it depends." On a lot of stuff. I got best results with my CPAP when I first became 100% compliant with my CPAP. And then started exercising and dieting like crazy and lost a lot of weight. I genuinely began feeling better then. Before CPAP, I could not exercise hard like that, it simply was not a possibility before CPAP. Last time I could work out hard like I can on CPAP now was in my real late twenties.

Its a long, hard haul to restore your health after it has been neglected for years or in many cases, decades. It is possible, Ive done it but it is hard. The hardest part IMO is KEEPING THE WEIGHT OFF after you lose it. For me, sticking to CPAP is the easy part.

A lot of men will still need TRT when it is all said and done to "restore" sexual performance. The gonads and the region of the brain that control the gonads just take too big of a hit with chronic sleep deprivation due to oxygen deprivation.

Eric