re: Fixing Sleep Apnea with apap/cpap technology.

Lol, I'm 5'11 220lbs...have already lost 4lbs in 2 weeks. Actually your right for serious overweight folks, the apnea is worse. Losing weight does lessen apnea in people, not all but many. Being someone in your 40s versus 20s is different these days when it comes to staying in a good body bro...

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I probably get about a minute in and I’m out.

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I legit can’t even imagine that. I’ll never get people who can lay down and just go to sleep.

I have been on one for two years. I was at 95 per hour and now down to 4 so it can be done. I use the Respironics dream wear mask that covers the mouth. You can buy all the supplies on Amazon. It still sucks but after a year or so I am use to it and it has definitely made me feel better. Ask you doc for Ambien it will help with the sleep and you can take if for a year with very little side effects.

You need to keep trying. I was actually diagnosed twenty years ago and did not do anything about it and it almost killed me. Sleep Apnea is nothing to play around with. You need to make it work.

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this has been my struggle with my bp or was. When bp was up, I have gone thru so many bp meds and none seem to work, then Dr asked if I have problems sleeping at night. Found the sleep disorder. Bp started dropping with meds after getting therapy. Thanks for the positive words.....

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There is no doubt that you're aggressively managing this problem. I would ask about your exercise regimen as that is the only thing that works on some folks' blood pressure. It should help with sleep and weight management as well, although the body tends to get to a new equilibrium of weight, particularly if there isn't a radical adjustment to diet.

The seriousness which a person takes health problems (without becoming obsessed of course) usually correlates to their success in overcoming them. Obviously none of us can change our genetics. Lifestyle and active treatment are about the only things we can control.

Congrats on working through it.

CPAPs your best bet with that AHI.

If you're struggling with the autopap getting your ahi normalized, then you may be someone who needs to have a titration study and consider either regular CPAP or doing a bipap settings for better treatment.

Oral appliance unlikely to cure an AHI that high.

Surgical options are there but won't be as effective as CPAP. Technically over the ahi limit for something like the inspire, but a lot time insurances would still approve placement even with that AHI.

I just started and currently on first mask but getting another. I'll get it straight.

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would ask about your exercise regimen as that is the only thing that works on some folks' blood pressure

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let me tell you ,I used to be a regular at the gym but after years of repeated severe apnea body was going thru torture. At first, I had no idea why I was feeling like this until Dr asked me about sleep issues. Nothing worse than feeling like you wanna just go to sleep every minute of the day, all day while your trying to perform at work much less wanna work cause ur so fatigued you wanna just go home. It's torture like someone else said. I quit regular workouts prolly last 2 years and have only gone here or there to gym simply because of the fatigue and mental digression from the apnea, all I wanted to do was go home after work and go to sleep. With this new energy I made a commitment to myself that once I feel totally better I'm gonna be back at the gym for my 4 days a week like before.

Over 122 THOUSAND posts? Do you live here? Jesus Christ.

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know everyone on the OT is an "athlete" and "big boned", but unless you're fined at work for being "under" a certain weight, most Americans are way, way fatter than they think they are.

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at 224 I was considered obese at doctor. Lol. I am totally comfortable at 200 but yeah 195 or less would be money for me. I agree totally what your saying but im not in denial. Tbh, it bothers me but I was just beat down exhausted and almost dgaf because of the fatigue. Trust me when I say I'm gonna get it straight. I'm feeling better. I just wanna have my events down to 5 or less for a few days and then I'll commit. One step at a time for me.

I feel your pain. I just did a sleep study and my AHI was 16 which puts me at moderate. Did the CPAP study and am now just waiting on my machine to arrive. I’m not obese at all trust me. I’m like 140#. But one day a out of the blue a few years ago my wife said I just started snoring and I have been ever since. I think it would only get worse for me. I am ALWAYS tired. Doesn’t matter if I go to bed for 4 hours or 14 hours. It kind of bothered me a bit that no one understood that I was just tired and there was nothing I could about it. I’m starting with the nose only mask and I’ll go from there. My biggest issue will be i like to sleep on my stomach and I don’t thing that’s going to be feasible going forward. I can’t wait to start.