Reason to believe

Birddog · Post by **Birddog** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 4:40 pm

Good Luck Marsheab with the new equipment, Carbonman that was a great post you made and inspiring to many of us.As you can see i am also a newbie as i got my Resmed auto on friday after waiting since july sleep study to get this thing going.I had swallowed a chicken bone at a kfc while eating lunch and it punctured my esophagus and had to have emergency surgery later that night when i finally decided to go see how bad it was. Well my doctor and the anastigeoligist (Spell Check) said i quit breating on the table and i looked like the worst case of sleep apnea they had seen.so after i healed up i got the sleep study and was put on 12 cm but they gave me an auto so it usually starts about 10.

When i first did the study the next morning i felt great and couldn't wait to get a machine.The first nights i had the mask off a few times and put it back on.i didn't use the humidifier once and really got dry mouth and then have used it since then. I work in a refrigerated truck delivering Wholesale Food to restaurants and have chronic broncitus that is bothersome only a few months of the year when things are in bloom and stuff,but don't smoke or drink but built fiberglass boats for many years.the refrigeration unit takes the humidity out of my lungs and makes me cough if i stay in here to long so i use a partition in the back of the truck to keep it comfortable.

I was riding to work on a bicycle last october about 4.5 miles each way daily and lost 20 lbs and felt great.now i need to get back to it once the summer cools off and i can feel good and healthy again.

You all seem to be a great bunch and i enjoy reading your forum letters and am glad to be a part of your group.

marshaeb · Post by **marshaeb** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 4:47 pm

Thanks, Birddog. You, too!!

carbonman · Post by **carbonman** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:55 pm

Birddog wrote: Carbonman that was a great post you made and inspiring to many of us.

Birddog, all the best as you begin your cpap journey.

Thanks! everyone for your kind thoughts and comments.

Beyond the machines and masks and charts/graphs, there is
the psychological aspect of this. Not only do we have to come
to terms w/the physical part of cpap, we have to come
to terms w/it in our minds. That may be the most important,
and most difficult part.