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Conference over, and thankfully, my husband was also attending and drove for us through morning and evening rush hour traffic. I was pretty foggy this morning.

I would be willing to check out the Dr. Krakow information. I'm more amenable to changing some things.

Some things just would not work for me right now such as the sleep restriction therapy my sleep doc mentioned in one of our earlier appointments. Please consider that at the time I was not in my best state of mind which was obviously from worsening sleep apnea which was resulting in more sleep deprivation, which was leading to more sleep medication which was likely worsening my sleep apnea leading to a vicious cycle. I was already peeved that he said I had OSA (which I wrongly considered a disease of fat old men) and gave me a copy of my study (like the complete study with graphs and all). Then he suggested this ridiculous sleep deprivation torture method (yes, my verbage for sleep restriction therapy). This is when I raised my voice at the doc which I have never done but would like to remind all of my state of exhaustion. I agreed to the titration study only as I gave up and just started feeling sorry for myself and that I would prove to this doctor what a bad idea CPAP was for me.

My titration study was one of those ones I read about here off and on, where it was some of the best sleep I had experienced in years.

I went round and round with my sleep doctor, but in the end we uncovered the main source of my insomnia and are working on the problem. Looking back on the diagnostic process with this doc, I have to admire his great care in gathering information. Also, he is a CPAP user himself and gives out a tip-sheet with his personal tips on adjusting to CPAP. It includes a list of online resources which includes this site amongst others.

Some forum members gave me a few websites about insomnia to check out, here's the thread:

viewtopic/t88489/Help--Is-there-a-Insom ... lk-is.html

Good luck getting it under control

PreemieNrsTiffy wrote:So frustrated right now. I have a conference to go and have to leave the house at 0700. Have been trying to get to sleep since 10:30pm. I've had my usually effective 1/2 tab vicoden, 1/2 tab benadryl and 5mg ambien (followed by a repeat dose of ambien), still not sleepy though I can tell I've had medications.

This was the whole reason I pursued this whole sleep study thing and wound up with the machine, which has been working great and allowing me to wean down all sleep meds. But insomnia rears it's nasty head tonight of all nights, when I have to get up early!!

I've now had a snack, browsed these boards and will try to lay down again and see if anything happens. I'm sure the main issue is that I continue to switch back and forth between a day schedule and night schedule every 3-4 days. So tomorrow night, I will intentionally be awake all night as I transition over.

Off to try again

PreemieNrsTiffy

I am going through this exact thing --- was dealing with chronic insomnia and pushed for a sleep study (did at-home study) only to be told I have apnea. I'm still in denial since this is a fairly new diagnosis. I will be going for an in-lab sleep study this weekend to further confirm the diagnosis. All that to say, I started out trying to resolve the insomnia and will potentially end with the machine.

Divachyk:

Whereas I had a bit of mourning (moping and crying) over this diagnosis, which I flat out refused to acknowledge at all initially. I've mentioned that I threw away the copy of my sleep study my sleep doc gave me (which I find really ironic since it seems like pulling teeth to get the complete study from some practices).

Thankfully, you have found this board and can ask the right questions before getting too far into this process. I didn't read much here until after I had received a machine and all.

PreemieNrsTiffy