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Keefe

Keefe

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anyone have it or ever stay overnight for a sleep study? If you have it, what did the dr prescribe (what equipment that is) to aid at night. How did it go?

Any insights would be helpful.
 
I stayed overnight for the study. I have sleep apnea but it isn't very bad.
I wear a CPAP mask each night. It cures it 100%

If I'm being honest I use the CPAP more to stop my snoring (for the wife) than for sleep apnea

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I did an at home test. I have it pretty bad, but I don’t think I could hack a CPAP machine. I’m going to try an oral device to help.


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I did an at home test. I have it pretty bad, but I don’t think I could hack a CPAP machine. I’m going to try an oral device to help.


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Dude I have an oral device. It's kinda like a mouthguard you would use in football or boxing.
It sucks. Bad. I sometimes use it while camping but I hate it.

My CPAP is very unobtrusive. It's called "nose pillow". Very small. Just sits at the opening of your nose. Give it a look

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I've had a tonsillectomy and sinus surgery for obstructive sleep apnea. It worked and I do not use a CPAP machine thank God. I snore like a fiend until the found out my tonsils were 3x normal size. They removed nearly 3 pounds of tissue from my throat and the snoring basically went away. Sinus surgery about 5 years later took care it any residual issues. I did several sleep studies in the course of it all. 2 in a clinic, 2 at home. I have other issues that cause me to have sleep disturbances, including bouts of full-on insomnia and for that I have been prescribed a wide range of crap. Ambien used to work best for me into I got used to it. Now not much helps if I'm in a bad sleep cycle. It can really suck.
 
Have used a CPAP machine for years. The new machines record the results of your most recent 30 nights, and your doctor can upload those results in his office. Basically, the machine records a sleep study every night you use it. A regular sleep study overnight in a lab is tough, because you are in a strange place and wired up to the hilt. But, such an overnight sleep study is needed to determine what air pressure to set on the CPAP machine. So one needs to have an overnight sleep study, no way around it. It's also needed just to determine what degree, or severity, of sleep apnea is involved.

Pillows, as @fishonjazz described, are the least obtrusive mask, but, if you open your mouth at night, it "breaks the circuit" figuratively speaking, interrupts the air flow in other words, and the sleep apnea is not controlled. You can try to control opening your mouth using a chin strap with the pillows system, but I still opened my mouth even with a chin strap.

Solution for me finally came by using a full face mask, covering both nose and mouth, with a memory foam insert. Memory foam prevents leakage, which previous full face masks always produced. Leaks mean apnea not controlled.

Full face mask is not comfortable, but none of the mask types I used ever prevented me from falling asleep. But some might not tolerate a full face mask. I tolerate it, I simply have no choice. Uncontrolled sleep apnea will lay waste to a person.

The surgery @LogGrad98 described is not appropriate for everyone. Your sleep doctor can make that determination.
 
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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?
 
What’s the relationship between sleep apnea and needing to take a loose crap 4-6 times a day?
 
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.
 
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addictionary said:
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.
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You think what was psychological?
 
Wes Mantooth said:
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?
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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.
 
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.
 
Wes Mantooth said:
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?
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I haven't really noticed much of a difference in energy or whatever.

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addictionary said:
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.
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oh man.. coffee at 2am???
 
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.
 
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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.
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It's all about that bass, no treble.
 
Wes Mantooth said:
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?
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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.
 
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