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Shades of Gray!


Posted by Ruby on January 11, 2001 at 17:05:52:

In Reply to: Re: Do I need another sleep study? posted by Morpheus on January 11, 2001 at 07:47:57:

My experience is that this is not a black and white issue at all. I think that a person who has healthy, normal sleep can afford some kinks (a bad pillow, poor mattress, less than 8 hours sleep for instance) but that those with OSA cannot.

I know that although I am completely compliant with bipap, I am still not sleeping as well as I should, still not making much progress in paying off my sleep debt. Before bipap, I could have happily slept on a rock in a snowstorm; now is different . . .

A really good piece of advice I got from this forum is to solve one problem at a time so it isn't so overwhelming. I got a new pillow, have ordered a hose sleeve (trying to cure my rainout problems), started setting my alarm a half hour later and try to go to bed earlier. Each of those things will hopefully make a little bit of difference that may just add up to the solution. Also, a second titration a year after changing from CPAP to bipap adjusted the pressure to a more therapeutic level.

Don't give up until you've tried every single thing you can think of to help your sleep! As they say, the devil is in the details.

Best of luck to you ~ Ruby


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