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Re: How to best get help?
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 9:03 pm
by sephiro499
absurdlyTired wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2019 8:57 pm
palerider wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2019 5:46 pm
Transition apneas are common and nothing to worry about.
It feels
so horrible. I feel so tired, and I just want to sleep. But every time I close my eyes and
just start to drift off, it happens.
I sleep worse on cpap and have so for over 10 years. I wouldn't get your hopes up going to a 'sleep' dr. There are more like 'apnea report' drs and not actual sleep drs. If your problem isn't elucidated or measured on standard tests or from a summary report from your cpap machine, they will just give up.
You are better off buying the machines yourself and uploading the info here. Look at the info yourself and try to find a pattern. Of course this still doesn't help you if your problem can't be detected by a cpap machine.
Re: How to best get help?
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 9:10 pm
by palerider
absurdlyTired wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2019 8:57 pm
palerider wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2019 5:46 pm
Transition apneas are common and nothing to worry about.
It feels
so horrible. I feel so tired, and I just want to sleep. But every time I close my eyes and
just start to drift off, it happens.
When I was last experimenting with ASV/CPAP devices, my "transition apneas" (thanks for the term - I honestly had no idea what they were called) were starting to become less frequent. And in the past 5 years of not touching any type of therapy (device, etc), I haven't had this happen even once - until 2 weeks ago.
I can handle perpetual sleepiness from non-treated apnea. But the inability to actually fall sleep - and the physical, cognitive, and emotional side-effects are too much.
I hate to sound so blasé, but, if you can can just ignore it, and go on to sleep, you'll be much better, transition apneas happen during the transition from awake breathing to asleep breathing, (and vice versa) which are handled by different systems in your body, and in that interval, sometimes people will stop breathing for 10 or more seconds, and your machine will log an apnea.
Once you get switched over to sleep breathing, things will pick backup.. if you can just avoid getting stressed out about it.
Re: How to best get help?
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 9:11 pm
by palerider
sephiro499 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2019 9:03 pm
You are better off buying the machines yourself and uploading the info here. Look at the info yourself and try to find a pattern. Of course this still doesn't help you if your problem can't be detected by a cpap machine.
Suggest you go back and *READ* the OP's initial post.
Re: How to best get help?
Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2019 8:42 am
by ChicagoGranny
palerider wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2019 9:11 pm
*READ* the OP's initial post
A novel idea!