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Please help

Posted by DaveR on April 11, 2001 at 14:28:14:
Maybe some of you can help me, if you have the time and don't mind explaining all this to me.
Today is one week with CPAP. I hate it. I'm waking up with leaks, my mouth opens (just my lips though - my jaw is clamped shut and my lips still let air through), and last night apparently I swallowed a lot of air because I woke up with some pretty bad gas (sorry to be crude) that was really painful. Not to mention sleeping with all the crap on my head is the most unnatural thing. I feel like an idiot with this s**t all over my face (c'mon, admit it-even if you think CPAP can be helpful you know it looks ridiculous) and last night I woke up several times with leaks blowing air all over my face.
Yesterday I went to see the sleep medicine clinic (even though I've had two sleep studies now from the same clinic, I had never talked to anyone there-go figure) and talked first to some guy who had "MPAS" behind his name but didn't even bother to introduce himself or tell me what his background was, etc. I told him some of the problems I was having and he basically told me that I would get used to it and learn to sleep with my mouth closed. Excuse me, but if I'm asleep, how in the h**l am I going to train myself to sleep with my lips closed? (Last night I even taped my mouth shut and woke up with my cheeks full of air like Louis Armstrong - I have to admit it's pretty funny even though this is really frustrating)
Anyway, to make a long story short, I'm now thinking about the surgery. Quite frankly though, everyone at the old sleepnet board has a different view of it. A lot of people say it won't work, and some people say it will, but nearly everybody says it's going to be painful. I don't understand the terminology (like, isn't there an MMA and a GMA and UP or something?)
This is so frustrating. Sorry for the long post, I have to rant. I'm sitting here coming to the conclusion that the severe depression that I have (along with one suicide attempt four years ago) is probably due to this OSA and now the solutions are: pain in the a** CPAP, or get your head carved up like a pumpkin which may or may not help. Sorry for the rant. Just doesn't seem like it's getting better. I hate this. Life sucks.

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