First on CPAP was not good, any suggestions?

robysue wrote:

brvoltz wrote:My normal sleep day is from 2am to 10am ( as in this seems to be my body's normal time to sleep.) not my normal day.
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If I wait until I'm tired it will be 2am.... But I have to be up at 5:30am to goto the office.... So this gets a little ugly.... So I have to try to go to bed around 10pm....

You've got a circadian rhythm problem going on here: Your work schedule demands that you sleep at a time your body does not feel sleepy.

And with all the sensory overload from the CPAP, you're going to find it extremely difficult to fall asleep four hours before you typically get sleepy. And so going to bed at 10pm when you are not sleepy is a recipe for disaster.

You need to talk to the sleep doc about the disconnect between your body's normal circadian rhythm (sleep from 2AM to 10AM) and your work mandated sleep schedule (sleep from 10PM to 5:30AM) since your work schedule is 4 hours off what your body wants. That's a problem that's not going to fix itself. It will require some work.

But the central piece of that work needed to reset the circadian rhythm will still be "go to bed when you are sleepy" And "no naps during the day regardless of how tired you are"

And it is still WAY, WAY too early to conclude that you are "one of those people for whom CPAP just doesn't work." Before concluding this, you need to be sleeping with machine for several weeks to several months and ON a sleep schedule that makes sense to both your body and your work. In other words, work on fixing the circadian rhythm problem at the same time you're trying to adjust to CPAP. Once your body is getting sleepy enough for you to quickly fall asleep around 10pm every single night, then you'll be in a better position to judge whether CPAP is going to eventually be a net positive.