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After all These Years

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Posted by Iowa Boy on November 01, 2011 at 12:57:13:

HI,

I have not been on the forum for several years...I have been using CPAP for at least ten years. Since my first day with the CPAP I have not been able to sleep through the night usually only getting 5 hours or so of sleep. Due to my not sleeping during the first two years, my sleep Doctor re-tested me and found that my pressure was okay, gave me a test to see if I was absorbing oxygen alright (I had been a smoker eight years earlier) I was absorbing oxygen alright. When my Neurologist/Doctor could find nothing wrong with me he bumped my pressure up to 15 from my original 10, this didn't do anything either. After this I kinda gave up on the Neurologist, as quite frankly he didn't know what was wrong (he told me so). Anyway, for the last ten years or so I still only sleep about five hours a night.

Once I started using the CPAP I quit falling asleep all the time and I do feel better then I did prior to the CPAP, but I do not feel good, I am still kinda tired all the time.

I usually go to bed about 10:30 to 11:00 PM, (I sleep by myself), I normally have little difficulty falling asleep(10-15 minutes) I will then wake up about 2:30 AM to 4:30 AM and normally I can not go back to sleep. On the occasions I do go back to sleep I will wake up about 6:30 or so, although I will not feel rested. During the day I am tired and sometimes will actually try to take a nap, but rarely can I go to sleep (usually this is without my APAP). If I do go to sleep I will feel better, but again not good.

I seem to get a second wind in the evening and do not feel as tired as I do during the day..

Over these ten plus years I have had three different CPAP machines several masks (Nasal & full face) I have used a heated humidifier for most of the ten years. I am currently (last three years or so) using a APAP and a nasal mask (this seems to work as well as anything has)

I have tried closing all the bedroom curtains, used ear plugs, I have even used bright day light, lights in my room to change my day/night times.

I am a 64 year old Male, 5'-9”, when I was first diagnosed with OSA I weighed 260, Then I ballooned up to 295, I am now down to 215 or less. Even with the weight loss I have the same problem. I am running my APAP at 10 and on occasion I have adjusted it up to 12 or 13...makes no difference. I have used some over the counter sleep aids, but they do not help.


For the last several years I have lived in the country quite a ways (60 miles) from a real sleep clinic so I haven't been back to a sleep Doctor. I have a feeling that if I were to go to one he/she wouldn't know what was wrong anyway.

If any of you have had this sort of problem I would be interested in hearing from you.

Sorry this is so long.


Still Tired in Iowa

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