Sleep apnea

[infection]

For those of you who have commented and wear the mask or Pillow or other, how much has it helped you? Do you feel less fatigued with the same amount of sleep time? Do you seem to have more energy? Can you get a little less sleep than usual and feel just as you always had?

Anyone who persists through the first 2-3 weeks reports a lot of benefit. Obviously there’s some small amount of selection bias in that.

 

[Miggs]

Yeah my wife’s cousin said he took thing out of his nose (or mouth I forget) each night but kept it in a little bit longer each night and after a few weeks was fine with it.

 

[fishonjazz]

For those of you who have commented and wear the mask or Pillow or other, how much has it helped you? Do you feel less fatigued with the same amount of sleep time? Do you seem to have more energy? Can you get a little less sleep than usual and feel just as you always had?

I haven't really noticed much of a difference in energy or whatever.

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[The Midnight]

When I was diagnosed, doc told me that she'd have me over for study if I failed to lose weight and quit smoking coz these might be the things causing it.

Never went back. I did not lose weight or quit smoking neither. I think it was psychological, plus I used to wake up to puke a little. I quit eating at nights and it was gone.

Don't take my word for it tho. Here I am posting this **** as I wash 3 pieces of cake with a cup of coffee 2:40 AM.

oh man.. coffee at 2am???

 

[infection]

oh man.. coffee at 2am???

 

[Deleted member 365]

Have you tried a bed with an adjustable base? That has helped my snoring/sleep apnea.

By far the best thing that helped it was having my tonsils removed. They were enlarged as were my adenoids. So it might be worth seeing a specialist to consider that. The tonsillectomy wasn’t bad. The first few days weren’t bad either. Days 4-8 were rough. But I was nearly back to full strength after 2 weeks.

 

[Gameface]

Have you tried a bed with an adjustable base? That has helped my snoring/sleep apnea.

By far the best thing that helped it was having my tonsils removed. They were enlarged as were my adenoids. So it might be worth seeing a specialist to consider that. The tonsillectomy wasn’t bad. The first few days weren’t bad either. Days 4-8 were rough. But I was nearly back to full strength after 2 weeks.

It's all about that bass, no treble.

 

[Red]

For those of you who have commented and wear the mask or Pillow or other, how much has it helped you? Do you feel less fatigued with the same amount of sleep time? Do you seem to have more energy? Can you get a little less sleep than usual and feel just as you always had?

I'm not sure how many times one wakes up per hour before the apnea is considered severe. My sleep apnea must be at least moderate. Uncontrolled, I imagine I wake up 20-30 times per hour.

When you wake up multiple times per hour, due to apnea, a couple of things result. One, you never reach deep sleep. You won't know this. You think you've slept 8 hours, or whatever. But waking up many times per hour, for mere fractions of a second, prevents you from reaching the deep restorative sleep the body needs. It also jolts the heart when one wakes up repeatedly. That's not good. Yes, controlling that helps.

We all need to reach deep sleep each night. On nights when my apnea might not be controlled as much as on other nights, I can usually tell the next day. There is a level of fatigue telling me I did not sleep as well as I would like. It's the cumulative affect of minimizing restorative deep sleep night after night that lays waste to daytime consciousness and energy. It affects the mind and the body.

I can only speak for myself. I know people who simply live with the apnea. Maybe if one has it to a minor degree, you can do that. But, for myself, allowing my body to reach deep sleep, and allow that deep sleep to be uninterrupted, which is what the CPAP machine allows, helps my daytime consciousness and energy.

Bottom line: sleep apnea interrupts deep sleep. Our bodies, and our minds, need uninterrupted deep sleep. It's that simple.

 

[Red]

I'll add that my own case is complicated by another sleep disorder. Namely, without sleeping pills, I won't sleep more then 3 hours a night. Even with sleeping pills, I usually have to settle for 5-6 hours a night. The sleep doctor had to take me "kicking and screaming" to the sleeping pill route. I regarded it as a defeat to have to use a sleeping pill. Until that type of insomnia afflicted me, I never had a problem with falling asleep or staying asleep. Eventually, I had no choice but to say "uncle" and accept that I would need a sleeping pill to get more then 3 hours sleep. Sleep disorders are a bitch, whether apnea or insomnia...

 

[Rubashov]

I'll add that my own case is complicated by another sleep disorder. Namely, without sleeping pills, I won't sleep more then 3 hours a night. Even with sleeping pills, I usually have to settle for 5-6 hours a night. The sleep doctor had to take me "kicking and screaming" to the sleeping pill route. I regarded it as a defeat to have to use a sleeping pill. Until that type of insomnia afflicted me, I never had a problem with falling asleep or staying asleep. Eventually, I had no choice but to say "uncle" and accept that I would need a sleeping pill to get more then 3 hours sleep. Sleep disorders are a bitch, whether apnea or insomnia...

Dude when i was coming to the end of working night shift (after 6 years) i was lucky to get 25 hours sleep for the week. I was just running on adrenaline was terrible for me.

 

[LogGrad98]

I'm not sure how many times one wakes up per hour before the apnea is considered severe. My sleep apnea must be at least moderate. Uncontrolled, I imagine I wake up 20-30 times per hour.

When you wake up multiple times per hour, due to apnea, a couple of things result. One, you never reach deep sleep. You won't know this. You think you've slept 8 hours, or whatever. But waking up many times per hour, for mere fractions of a second, prevents you from reaching the deep restorative sleep the body needs. It also jolts the heart when one wakes up repeatedly. That's not good. Yes, controlling that helps.

We all need to reach deep sleep each night. On nights when my apnea might not be controlled as much as on other nights, I can usually tell the next day. There is a level of fatigue telling me I did not sleep as well as I would like. It's the cumulative affect of minimizing restorative deep sleep night after night that lays waste to daytime consciousness and energy. It affects the mind and the body.

I can only speak for myself. I know people who simply live with the apnea. Maybe if one has it to a minor degree, you can do that. But, for myself, allowing my body to reach deep sleep, and allow that deep sleep to be uninterrupted, which is what the CPAP machine allows, helps my daytime consciousness and energy.

Bottom line: sleep apnea interrupts deep sleep. Our bodies, and our minds, need uninterrupted deep sleep. It's that simple.

Good explanation. When my apnea was in full force I was waking 60 to 70 times per hour. Although rarely fully awake. I also would gasp heavily, my wife described it as a roar, to get a breath at night, several times an hour. She slept in another room for almost a year. But all this meant I rarely entered into deep sleep, so realistically it was almost as bad as never sleeping.

It meant that during the day I could fall asleep almost like I had narcolepsy. I would spontaneously fall asleep at work, even driving. Reached a point where if we had to drive further than a few minutes away my wife drove everywhere.

Another bad effect of my particular type of apnea, obstructive, was that the tissue in my throat would close off and form a syphon, and pull contents from my stomach into my throat which I would then inhale with force when I gasped at night to get a breath. So I'd violently wake up trying to cough a bunch of vomit out of my lungs. I actually went to the ER once after an episode of this due to coughing so hard I was coughing up blood.

Getting your tonsils out as an adult sucks, almost as bad as anything I underwent in a year of cancer treatments, but it was my only option, and it changed my life for sure.

 

[NAOS]

There’s a strong connection between exposure to blue light, melatonin, and natural sleep.



My sleep has been 1000% better since I started intermittent fasting (I finish with all eating by 7:00pm), and started wearing blue-blocking glasses at sundown. The final pieces of the puzzle were getting enough exercise earlier in the day, and giving myself an hour to appropriately wind down before I went to bed.