cpap for 9 days and energy

I have been on cpap since last Tuesday. I am adjusting to the mask presence and noise - I rarely hear the machine but I do hear noise from the tubing and mask's vent, particularly when I sleep on my side. My cats are adjusting and their reaction is funny to watch. I love to wake up with a cat sprawled on my side, it isn't happening as much as it did before cpap but am happy it is again happening.

I had noticeable energy today! This afternoon at work I was moving between my desk and an instrument 50-100 ft away. I was zipping back and forth, something I haven't done for several years. It was great! I had forgotten what it felt like to have energy. I am still tired which I know is likely to improve. If it doesn't, I could happily live with my present tiredness combined with energy like this afternoon.

That's good to hear fiberfan!

You will get less tired, it can take weeks for your body to compensate to feel better re-oxygenated. The more compliance (you stay on the machine) the better you will feel. It's strange that before we have the machines we don't know there's a problem as it comes on gradually and isn't like hitting a brick wall, so the tiredness/lathargic feeling gradually comes in and you think nothing of it because that's how you have felt for months (or possibly years).

I remember that I was dosing at my desk when it came to lunch time, now I couldn't even dream of dosing at my desk at lunch time since being on CPAP for 5 years. Looking back though (which you will do much more in a year or more to come) you'll think - oh my god I was so ill.

I remember the first few days of having my machine and I did feel quite a bit better, a week later I felt even better still and the same went on for a few weeks. I felt more alert, I wasn't to the point of almost falling asleep when driving and felt a lot better in myself with more energy.

For OSA - there's still no substiture for losing weight (and I lost 42 pounds a couple of years ago) and that made me feel even better still. I need to get back into that regime again of trying to lose more weight. Even if I returned to a normal size, I doubt I would want to leave my machine because I know how much it has changed my life.

I did not sleep that well last night nothing to do with cpap i believe. I woke up this morning knowing i got about 4 hours of sleep and still feel better than I used to when I slept longer without the machine.

Same here for another noob! I've been on "the machine" for three weeks now and although it took some adjusting I now manage to sleep through the entire night (if I do wake up at 4AM, like I did this morning, I even manage to fall back asleep - another step forward).

It's nice to get up in the morning without having to drag yourself out of bed, and I definitely get more things done both at work and at home. The only negative so far is that I notice that 6hr of sleep really doesn't cut it for me. I got used to a regimen of routinely going to bed at 1AM or 1:30 and get up at 6:30. I now know that it was because I wasn't getting any real sleep anyway so it didn't really make a difference how long (or short) I slept. I really have to go to sleep at 11PM or even earlier now, but that's something that I'm completely unused to.

That's a really good point Bart. 5-10 years ago before I was diagnosed I was a night owl, most nights I would be up until gone midnight and then have to get up at 6am to get ready for the commute to work. I was actually getting more sleep and it was dozing off in the evenings prior to sleeping and that was one of the things i believe that kept me up so late because I would get home from work, have a meal, have a nap, wake up around 11pm and feel that I couldn't go to sleep. I did feel rotten though the next morning when I awoke but it was in my routine.

For the past 5 years I've religiously tried to go to bed around the same time. No matter what you do, it doesn't happen every night but I set myself a hard limit, midnight is too late. Even now with the machine if I go to bed after midnight I don't feel great when I wake up in the morning (lack of sleep) BUT as you say I do feel a lot better than I would have pre-CPAP treatment.

I find myself I need 7-7.5 hours of sleep. I can't go below 6 otherwise I feel tired when I wake up and I certainly can't go beyond 8 as my body just won't let me. Ever since being on CPAP I wake up at least 30 minutes before my alarm goes off, or at very worst if I had a late night and my alarm wakes me up, it's straight out of bed, no rolling around wanting to go back to sleep. It's a great feeling!

Sounds like you are making great progress.