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I have to agree with you! The CPAP has changed my attitude with hangovers. I dont have them anymore. In addition, i get very good sleep after drinking. Whereas before when i was drinking, I was unable to sleep. I would wake up few times in a single night due to my fast heratbeat, and difficulty to sleep. Now!! Thanks to this great invention, I dont know what the hangover feels like it.

Excellent topic and I say very relavent.

I touch on this in my blog listed in my signature. Give it a look! Cheers!

Alcohol is known to make OSA worse, more snoring, less oxygen, more respiratory disturbances. In our sleep lab we order auto pap for known drinkers as they are sober when titrated in the lab.

I think more than 80% of what I called a hangover was from lack of oxygen due to my untreated OSA being worse when I drank. My wife always said I snored a lot more after I was drinking. I would always awaken witha sever headache and be exhausted all day.

My pressure needs on my auto are much higher after I drink, I don't get the morning headache and I'm not abnormally tired the next day. CPAP definitely reduces my hangover.

Interesting point Big Daddy.

When I have patients who consume alcohol, I will encourage them to "be their usual bedtime self" when they arrive. This makes for a more accurate titration. A titration with alcohol is much different than a titration without alcohol.

sleepmba wrote:Interesting point Big Daddy.

When I have patients who consume alcohol, I will encourage them to "be their usual bedtime self" when they arrive. This makes for a more accurate titration. A titration with alcohol is much different than a titration without alcohol.

I have to say that this is the first time I've ever seen such a recommendation discussed here. And it certainly seems to make sense, since ignoring the issue of regular alcohol use by just saying "don't use alcohol or drugs within X-number of hours prior to the sleep study" will not help when doing the sleep study and titration! I hope further discussion is given to this subject.

Come to think of it I have not had a hangover since I have been using cpap. But then I have not had more than on or two drinks every now and then!

Laura

I have a couple of topics in my blog(click in my signature) about alcohol and sleep and sleep apnea. Give it a gander if you are interested.

A long known hangover cure I learned from welders is breathing pure oxygen from their welding tanks. I'm sure that better oxygenation of the blood overnight from using CPAP would lessen, if not prevent hangovers. Since I don't overindulge anymore I doubt that I will ever find out first hand!

Dale

I have had my share of hangovers, both before and after using CPAP, but I haven't drank more than a couple of drinks a year for the past several years. I had essentially stopped drinking because my partner would drink all of my scotch when he ran out of his whiskey.

Now, I doubt that I will ever drink alcohol again. My partner recently went through alcohol detox and he is now a recovering alcoholic. I went through a number of family sessions while he was in rehab and I have been going to Al Anon meetings. In the past years as the partner of an alcoholic, and from what I have learned in the past weeks, I have found out one thing about alcoholism; it hurts everybody it touches.

As an undergrad student I can definitively say that yes, after a night out drinking I feel much better the morning after given I put my mask on, relative to previously no CPAP and drinking.

I just attribute this to my OSA's worsening with alcohol

In fact the previous years before CPAP I had actually been turned off drinking anything more than one or two beers since my hangovers topped any of my friends.

I totally agree that the C-pap machine eliminates hangovers. It is not your imagination!