Saw "Stupid Machine" (CPAP) mentioned

[dacheedah]

VA told me to sleep in a recliner with the cpap to get accustomed to it then move to the bed, tht and a larger mask made a world of difference.

[stevej]

Have had mine for about 8 months now, won't sleep without it. No longer fall asleep watching tv, at the movies or sitting in meetings. Should have had one at least 10 years ago, just was not willing to pay for the sleep study until my daughters FIL passed away at age 50 and she made me promise to go in. Sleep better, don't snore anymore and feel better after 5 hours of sleep than I used to after 9. Need a Vpap machine, kind of expensive ($6,000), but by the time I got through the regular physical and two sleep studies, deductable was more than covered.

[Drreb]

I have tried the c-pap many time with no luck at all. Mine sits in the closet collecting dust.

[tazmocycle]

:draming:WELL! after me and susan got together, she told me that I was not breathing good and would do a lot of jerking, whick is your natural response of your brain telling you to breath so you don't die! lots of folks that die in their sleep because after awhile your reflex stops working several yrs ago Mr Smith the football player died from it. susan got her current job as a sleep tech after I went to have a study. I was on cpap for about 5 yrs and was still having some trouble, when I went for my yrly fiz my dr said my lips were blue and when they check my blood/oz it was below 87 which is hospital on oz time. had a second study and was put on bypap which helps you breath in and reduces the pressure when you exhaul and it's much better. I had nasal surgery done about 5 yrs before I had my first study and my right nostril was mostly blocked because of broken nose when I was young, it help out for a few yrs but still would have very bad migraines several times a yr, which I don't have now unless I don't use my bypap.

susan says that a lot of studies are not done right or your tech may be shopping on line, watching movies, on social media, going out for food, smoke breaks, sleeping themselves(a few was fired because of this) etc and miss key events that happens. they look at you brain , resp. and heart activies while you are sleeping and can tell what level of 3 stages of sleep you are in. apena is bad on your heart because if you don't get into rim sleep it never gets any rest and causes a lot of damage. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE OVER-WEIGHT TO HAVE APENA! some of the little old 90 lb people snore worst that big folks!

IF YOU ARE STILL HAVING PROBLEMS, YOU NEED TO LET YOUR DOC KNOW, there are other ways to help out you problems. nasal surgery may helpout a few but don't do anything for most. I know at one meet and eat when we stay overnight susan noticed a member having problems sleeping and metioned it and a few folks didn't like the talk about personal things but she knows about the ill-effects to somebody's health caused by it and wanted to help out and possibly save their life, she has been working at hospital for over 20 yrs and sees what happens because of it. that's all I have to say about it and will leave it up to docs to do the rest!!LOL!!