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Jaquie wrote: . . . discuss this with your sleep specialist and have your settings adjusted . . .

My guess, FWIW, is the zombie master is a newly laid-off RT . . . In withdrawal.
Sorry, kid, but the "company line" does not play here.
Most of us do our own adjustments and make our own decisions.
THE WAY IT SHOULD BE!

cinnerz wrote:I'm at my second try with CPAP and its been about 3 weeks and I feel a lot worse than before CPAP. How long did it take other people to feel better? I want to have hope there is light at the end of the tunnel but its difficult since I feel a lot worse than before.

My doctor has given me ambien + clonapazepam to be able to fall asleep; without taking both of them I can't fall asleep with the mask on at all. I don't know if its the drugs that are making me feel worse or if I just haven't given the CPAP enough time. I was holding out hope for surgery but at my consult with the surgeon today he said septoplasty + pharyngoplasty might give me a 30% improvement which wouldn't get me off of CPAP (my AHI was 30).

I felt better/fine within 24 hours. My Sleep Doc avoids Ambien, and my friends who have taken it report annoying dreams, sleepwalking, and headaches. There are much better sleeping meds than Ambien.

Those of us who rarely if ever need drugs to sleep probably have very little
understanding of what it is like for those who do. It is too easy to judge and too difficult to understand.

Wulfman... wrote:Is it just me or does anybody else wonder how or why some of these "guest" posters resurrect threads that have been dormant for YEARS???

I think they stumble onto something and don't even bother to check the whole thread or the date.
They post as a guest and it would be a miracle if they ever find their way back to that specific thread.
Just like people posting in a huge thread "where can I get so and so software" and never bother to look to see if the answer is maybe in the thread. Duh.... Lazy comes to my mind every time I see that happen.
We all have our pet peeves....the repeated "where can I get...." irks me about as much as someone resurrecting a poll thread irks Jim (Goofproof).
I pretty much always look at the date of original first post before I look at "new" comments and if it is a very old thread (or poll) I don't even bother reading it unless I have nothing better to do.

They likely aren't doing a forum search, but a Google one, and it pulls up the closest post to their search criteria. They don't get the finer points of little dates above the notes.

Unfortunately, for me, and again, please this is for me, I still am struggling to sleep and do not feel any better than when I started 2 years ago. But I am a trooper, and do not give up easily.

Luthie2006 wrote:Unfortunately, for me, and again, please this is for me, I still am struggling to sleep and do not feel any better than when I started 2 years ago. But I am a trooper, and do not give up easily.

Do you use software to monitor your therapy? If not, you should.
What are your pressure settings? If you're running your machine in a range of pressures, you should look at your software reports to see if the pressure changes may be the culprit. If you're using a range of pressures, the pressure changes may be bumping you out of the needed sleep stages and keep you from feeling rested.


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