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turns out I have sleep apnea and I just wanna vent
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There are alternatives if you can't tolerate a CPAP though that's normally the first option.
Now you can get the nasal-only mask to go with a beard but only if you can reliably keep your mouth shut all night. A nasal cpap with ones mouth open just turns the path from your sinuses into your mouth into a little wind tunnel. You wake up with a terrible sore throat. The fix for that is to get what is essentially an ACE bandage and wrap it around your whole head to keep your jaw shut all night but at that point shaving sounds like the least bad option.
You gotta get on this Having Good Sleep shit they got now. Best trip you'll ever take.
For me what changed most rapidly is I stopped having adrenaline nightmares. When your blood oxygen gets low your body released adrenaline which kicks your breathing up a notch. Very rarely this will jolt you all the way awake but more often it just disturbs your sleep and the cycle repeats all night as you get dosed with adrenaline over and over again.
For me this meant constant nightmares of fighting, being chased, chasing, being killed, killing etc... Those stopped completely as soon as I got my cpap.
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
When I got my study done that diagnosed my my score was 64 events per hour I believe, so more than once a minute
I tell you it got bad with the daytime sleepiness for me, I couldn't even drive safely
The CPAP was a night and day difference for me instantly
Only down side was I used to be a belly sleeper and learning to sleep on my back hurt like a mother fucker for months if not a year.
Higher pressure is more likely to leak and if you have too much mask leak you will lose water very quickly for one. But yeah higher pressure also just blows more air so it moves more water through in general.
I am on high pressure and get a good seal on my nasal mask but still need to refill the tank every night.
jesus christ
huh, I get these kinds of dreams a lot but I've had them my entire life so I always chalked it up to a me thing
I figured my snoring/apnea came from me getting older and heavier, but I was also an asthmatic kid so maybe that's been the source of that stuff all along. probably worth looking into!
Confusing, mostly. If I remember a dream, I usually wake up wondering why I had it in the first place.
They don't even have to be good dreams. I'll take nightmares as well, I'm a semi-lucid dreamer so it's not like anything in them can hurt me without my allowing it.
Wrapping the tube in something to insulate it a bit can help too
Ooof, that's real rough, buddy. The artefacts I bring back from Dreamspace are absolutely invaluable to my mental health in the waking world. Like, dead dogs given pats and scritches, ancient exes apologized to. There's an extended cut of the first Silent Hill game, a Resident Evil 2 1/2, and a Zelda/Pokemon/3D RPG mash-up in there that are all classic, A+ titles. Several groundbreaking X-Men arcs that don't exist in the Real World. Malls are still Real Big there! And there's this mountain resort that is thirty minutes from literally everywhere. Last night? I recovered a high tech helicopter from a crash site and restored it with a roughneck pit crew, then got gently mocked by an Alaskan pirate when I asked if I'd be getting a chance to fly it
You have my very deepest condolences that you don't ever get to wake up remembering that you dodged an elite hit squad using your Shadowcat powers before Monica Bellucci made a pass at you, that sounds like sheer hell
I get these too, but I don't really register them as anxiety dreams until much later the next morning? I'm not waking up in cold sweats or kept up from nightmares/terrors, in the detached logic of the dream it's just, "ho hum, the dog fell in the lake and is being hunted by those sharks again", "oh look, that abandoned baby is falling backwards over some more stairs", "shards of glass aren't supposed to come out of my mouth, guess that's why its been bugging me back there, dentist will not be pleased". It isn't until I'm sitting sipping my coffee the next morning that it dawns on me, "hey that was a weird one, wonder if I'm stressed out about stuff more than is typical"
If I look in the mirror I see nothing, which I chalk up to my prosopagnosia, or face blindness. Which tracks considering I don't recognize myself in real life. Turns out my being drawn to faceless things was more than just aesthetic reasons.
Inception-type stuff like that is extra fun when you get a night where the layers in between are all versions of "okay, in this one, you're laying in a bed, unable to sleep and unsure if you're awake"
Edit- Mirrors are one of the few "oh shit oh shit oh shit" appearances I do get in my Dreams. The teeth nightmares I can deal with. Looking in Dream-Mirrors, accidentally or (god forbid) on purpose? That's how you summon your Nemesis. That's just Lynch 101
Well, that's not true, I have the humidifier attached because it lessens the noise, but I don't fill the reservoire.
But I'm also an outliner from this thread, it seems, because I've just gone from the full face mask to just the nasal plugs and I like it a lot more.
It was a big change to the quality of my sleep when I got my CPAP many years ago. One thing that's a racket is that they suggest a certain schedule of replacing the items (mask, tubing, filters, etc.) and then won't sell you supplies to match that schedule. Okay... give me the schedule you're using to sell me parts and I'll adjust to that (they will not offer this). So last year, I took stock of my supplies and stopped buying replacements until I went through the build up a bit. I also turned down the annual appointment where they say "Yes, your sleep therapy is doing exactly what it has been doing for the past several years... that will be $70 that your insurance won't cover." We'll see if I need to bother with an appointment or a restock this year.
Had my very first sleep study done 14-15 years ago during my phd when I first started having symptoms. Constant exhaustion and brain fog. Trouble concentrating. Impossible to get out of bed in the morning. Never feel rested. Never wake up feeling refreshed. The study was in lab. IIRC the doctor told me I woke up over 200 times (for 1-2s) during the night but that it wasn't sleep apnea but that I was depressed. Sounded like sleep apnea to me but what do I know. So instead I get prescribed an anti depressant. Doesn't help.
Spend 10 years on varying types of anti depressant which never help. After talking to a new doctor about it they suggest another sleep study. This was 2020. Have the study done literally the week covid hit. Follow up is canceled. Spent a couple months trying to get one scheduled. Finally got frustrated and gave up.
Finally, earlier this year while I was going through shit I get it in my head that I should really follow up on that old study if it's still possible. Call them and schedule appt. Doctor sees me. Tells me that I *barely* have sleep apnea. Is really dismissive though, says treatment probably won't help that I just need to go to bed earlier and practice better sleeping habits. Offers me a take home test if I *really* want one. I almost said what's the point, but agreed.
I had concerns about it being take home (addressed below) but did it anyway and got my results back which said I had no evidence of disordered breathing. They base that off a number which is number of incidences divided by time sleeping. In my case they divided by the total time I was wearing the device. The time I actually slept was a fraction of that. Despite the tech assuring me beforehand that it knows when I'm sleeping because I'd expressed this concern. So my actual score should have been 2-3 times higher. Oh also, it showed that at at least one point I went over 60s without breathing. But whatever this Dr. clearly isn't interested in helping me.
In frustration I schedule an appointment with another doctor. Almost cancel because I'm starting to doubt whether I really know better and maybe the first doctor was right and I'm just fixated on it being apnea when it isn't. But the lady I spoke with encouraged me to keep it.
Finally have my appt with new doctor. He pulls up the lab study from 2020 and immediately says "you've got sleep apnea. You should be getting treatment" Didn't brush it off as a low score. Said doesn't matter of the score is low if I'm having these symptoms. Said of course the take home said everything was normal. They underreport the number of incidence and they don't know when you're actually sleeping since it's not hooked up to your head. Said they just needed to get me into the lab and get a current diagnosis so that I can finally start getting treatment.
Fast forward to January and the study. Could not sleep at all, partly due to anxiety. Finally passed out near the very end of the study. Figured I had an hour of sleep. Apparently got two hours. I was already expecting the results to be insufficient but apparently I scored 0 apneas. None, zip nada. Really don't know what to think anymore. I was expecting the score to be low but not literally zero. Even the take home study from a month earlier showed a bunch of apneas (just not enough). Doctor recommended another one which is tomorrow night.
On the one hand I'm really glad he's not just writing me off but on the other I worry I'm going nuts. I desperately want to try a CPAP. But I don't understand how my latest study showed nothing. And on top of that two days after that study my partner told me that I had woken them up in the middle of the night because I was gasping for air so loudly. I just don't even know. I'm just so tired. If this next one comes back as zero again I might actually lose my mind.
I very, very rarely remember dreaming. On the occasion when I do it's usually a stress dream, so I don't miss them.
There is a form of sleep apnea called positional sleep apnea. I have 0 events lying on my side, but had a few hypopneas lying on my back during my study. Do you primarily sleep on your back or stomach?
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Do you got the app they have to track how your seal is and stuff? If you didn't get a good seal against your face you'll lose most of the humidity pretty quickly and the machine has to work harder to maintain pressure so it might feel like it's blowing harder on your sinuses.