How Has CPAP Changed You and Your Life?

I've been on the hose since Dec. 28, and there have been LOTS of changes. I feel so much better, can stay up longer, sleep without waking up most nights, and wake up with a clear head every day. Food tastes lots better--don't know why that's so, but there it is. This explains why I haven't yet lost any weight, I suppose, but everything just tastes so yummy now, I want to eat it all! My kitchen stays clean, the laundry's all done, and I'm up to date on the never-ending paperwork at my job. My dreams are now dreamlike instead of nightmarish. I feel younger than I've felt in years. Now, if the perkiness would return to my boobs, it'd all be good!

Patrick A wrote: Since 6/21/2005, I don't sit at the dinning room table and fall asleep while "She Who Must be Obeyed" is talking to me any more. Come to think about it, I don't know if that's good or bad?

That right there probably saved your life!

It has been just over a year. I have my intelligence back, I speak other languages more easily. I can learn new software more easily. There are ends to TV shows again!

This month I spent every weekend scrubbing, cleaning and painting my daughters new apartment and I helped her and her new roommates move this week. Wednesday was a record breaking hot and humid day here 34C with humidex reading of over 40C, the AC in the truck we rented was broken (I know - nothing for Florida but 3 weeks before we had snow) I survived it.
I had pneumonia in February and I wouldn't have believed that I would be doing this now.

I've been on it since late October. So far I have a lot more energy. I can wake up after a reasonable amount of sleep and get going. My skin looks great.

In the couple of months I have been on this it has changed my life because now I can sleep in the same room with my wife again. We both wake up feeling happy and rested. That was the whole reason I got into cpap. I was just looking for a way to stop snoring. I had no idea I had apnea. I also had no idea the severe tiredness was not because i was aging and my arthritis meds. So the return of energy has been a blessing side effect of recovery from snoring
My wife commented yesterday on how much more energy i have. This holiday weekend i was waking up at 5:30 - 6am raring to go and getting things done. Amazed myself even. I feel so much better. I really do a lot to the folks here that have encouraged me and gave me great advice. It really has paid off and has changed my life.

I'm bumping this because it's a great topic that was about to scroll off. I tried to get up the nerve to give a flip answer, like "I don't sleep around as much as a did before I got a CPAP machine," but I couldn't do it.

PST wrote:I'm bumping this because it's a great topic that was about to scroll off. I tried to get up the nerve to give a flip answer, like "I don't sleep around as much as a did before I got a CPAP machine," but I couldn't do it.

Hey have you been taking lessons from me on how to be Crude, Rude and Socially Unacceptable?

Small changes for me. My family is not complaining that I sound like a mack truck, I've reduce getting up at at night from 3 or 4 times to once a night, no dry mouth, my sister says says I'm not out of breath all the time. I'm still waiting for the energy to get to me. But I'll take the baby steps as they come.

PST wrote:I'm bumping this because it's a great topic that was about to scroll off. I tried to get up the nerve to give a flip answer, like "I don't sleep around as much as a did before I got a CPAP machine," but I couldn't do it.

ROTFL!!!

Couldn't do... what?

Never mind.

How Has CPAP Changed You and Your Life?

I have a life!! Simple as that. I wake up - have a pulse, have energy, live, breathe.

I started CPAP September 07. The first 3 months were hard, with endless mask issues. I found this forum almost immediately I started, and that was my lifesaver, and what made this therapy work for me.

I noticed a difference straight away, but it took me a few months to notice a HUGE improvement, and maybe a year to really get back to form. Not everyone is instantaneously and miraculously back to young again! I had a lot of hypopneas, and I believe in that case it is up to a year for it to really kick in.