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Recovery times on PAP therapy

Posted by JohnBoy on November 27, 2002 at 08:56:14:

Hi. I've been on PAP therapy for 3 years now. I currently use an AutoPAP. My mental clarity has never been better. I do have some memory lags, but I totally attribute them to my memory not keeping up with my mental processes. Now that I think and conceptualize better and clearer than ever, my memory is still a bit in the fog that my thinking was in. It is coming around, but slowly. I feel sometimes like I'm almost rewiring my brain. It's taken me 3 years of VERY compliant use of the autopap to get me to this point. Before I was diagnosed and placed on treatment, in the middle of the night my wife could carry on a conversation and I'd respond intelligently while dead asleep. There was no real difference sometimes between my awake and sleeping periods, I slept so shallowly. Now I sleep very well and have recently (last .5 year or so) started to dream again. Before I started pap therapy I'd have VERY vivid colorful dreams, but as soon as I started pap therapy my dreams totally stopped. Only recently have my dreams started (though in black and white) up again. I have now reached the point where my sleep 'fog' has regressed so much that I feel that when I miss an hour or so of sleep I am affected much like someone with no sleep problems. Before I didn't even notice my accumaltive sleep log was so filled. I do still feel the 'fog' especially in my memory, but I also feel so many improvements that the fog isn't even worth mentioning in normal conversation. Just to give you an idea on how good I feel now, I am at age 32 and am starting college, aiming for 30 credits at the same time that I'm working full time. And I feel confident that if I have any problems it won't be from apnea. My memory feels like it's either lost in a fog or thawing out slower than the rest of me, but if I concentrate I can memorize things well. It's just my midterm memory that is having a problem. I can memorize short term, and concentrating I can memorize long term, but my midterm is foggy. I have no idea if this novel I just wrote can give anyone hope, ideas, or anything, but after not posting to these pages for so long, I just wanted to share and give people some hope. It's been a long time coming for me.

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