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CPAP is the devil's shop vac!!

Posted by monkeygirl on November 04, 2001 at 21:23:01:

A few years ago I began waking up 3-5 times per night. A few months ago I began not being able to fall asleep at all...an extremely rare and curious thing for me. Even when I can get to sleep with drugs, I wake up 3 hours before I should. These changes came on very suddenly.
I have fantastically wild and totally unpredicatable mood swings ranging from feeling almost normal and grounded to felling like I was the unfortunate victim of the brown acid.
I recently went to a sleep lab and was diagnosed with moderate-severe OSA. They gave me a CPAP machine, which I have not yet gotten used to.
My thing is this: The CPAP helps me breathe at night, I recognize that as a good thing. I will wrestle with this machine, make friends with it....but it's not fixing WHY I went to sleep lab. I went because I can't fall asleep or stay that way.....and having a hose hooked up to my face is not making this any easier. In fact, it's making me contemplate suicide. I can't live this way much longer without going insane.
I am addled, I don't know what my next move should be.

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