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Posted: **Sat Mar 09, 2013 6:50 pm**

Sir NoddinOff,

Very good point and something i've also been experimenting with. I used to consume huge amounts of caffeine on a daily basis to combat the tired feeling. My daily dose used to be coffee in the morning, coke for lunch, maybe another coke mid arvo, coke for dinner and then chocolate after dinner. Yep, i was out of control. Over the last six months, i've tapered off to one cup of coffee early morning and then a can of coke at lunch. Basically, no caffeine after 12.30pm. So far, there has been absolutely no difference in my sleep and how i feel the next day. Now, the next step will be to cut out caffeine completely but i thought there may be some noticeable difference with the reduction thus far?

Posted: **Sun Mar 10, 2013 1:59 am**

No problem Lullaby. I just wish you well in resolving your issues.

Regarding caffeine, if you have already cut it down to two cups, I doubt eliminating it will solve your problems. But maybe that is my own biased opinion at work and there are people who are very sensitive to it. So if you're up to cutting it out, I guess you have nothing to lose.

49er

lullaby wrote:Hi everyone,

OP here. I am enjoying everyone's contribution to this post and i do value every comment. 49'er - sorry if i came across as terse. I didn't mean to and i understand where you are coming from.
Just to reiterate - i'm in no way giving up on CPAP just yet. I've invested far too much time and money to quit now. I guess i get envious when i read about the success stories on here and wonder why it's not happening to me when all my stats seem to say otherwise.
I still believe that my night time twitching is the cause of my problems however i need to get to the bottom of what is causing it. Is it neurological or is it something that is being aggravated by Zoloft? What is confusing me is that my last sleep study (my fourth in two years) indicated lots of rem sleep, and some leg movements though not many. The sleep tech did say my leg movements were independent of pressure movements.
As per my original post, it's just so weird that i still feel slightly better when i haven't used CPAP the previous night. I do mean 'slightly' as it's a case of that versus the total 'stoned' feeling i mentioned originally when on CPAP. I'm in a pretty demanding job (who isn't?) and i definitely function better through the day with a strong coffee and the tired feeling vs just sitting in the office staring at my computer for hours with the stoned feeling.
Anyway, off to my fifth sleep study and mlst at the end of this month. Not sure what it's going to add to the equation but here's hoping

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