Sleep Apnea

[BringBackFergy]

Took test. Yep. Have apnea

company from WNY calls. “We have your machine. Can we run it through your insurance?”

Two days later: Your insurance only covers $50/month. You’ll need to pay $685 up front and $110 for the next 16 months. 
 

No thanks. Scam. 

[Goin Breakdown]

Yep. I stopped using my Cpap though. I just can't get over the claustrophobic feeling I get with the mask on. Even after months. I'd wake up every night after sleeping for 1 hour and 35 mins on the dot and take it off while half asleep and wake up like "ohh I took it off again". If I snore I just leave the room and sleep someplace else. Problem solved. Sort of   

[Just Jack]

Diagnosed a couple years ago, my test night I think they recorded around 60 times in one hour on average. When I would have to drive for work, Syracuse to either Albany or Buffalo, each being about a 2-2.5 hour drive, I'd have to stop at least once to take a 20-minute nap or risk falling asleep at the wheel, I was so tired. Now I can't imagine sleeping without it.  I did make adjustments to the settings after using it the first week. They had set up the pressure to start at 4 and it felt like I was struggling to breathe, so I changed it to 5. The high end was set to 16, I dropped it down to 15 since it felt, as someone here said earlier, like a leaf blower on my face. Before I had it, it was not unusual for me to sleep 8-10 hours on the weekends and still be tired.  Now 7 hours seems to be my sweet spot and I'm not as tired as I used to be.  Insurance paid for the unit also. 

Edited 7 hours ago by Just Jack

[US Egg]

There is legitimacy to health concerns relating to sleep apnea. Weight, alcohol, sleep meds, strong anti-depressants can be significant contributors. Most who have issues with such things usually go the route of the B/C PAP rather than addressing them first, if at all.

[Wacka]

Don't have apnea, but when I was in the ICU for my kidney transplant, I caught the flu and my blood O2 was down in the 80s.  They put me on a biPAP mask  for a day. That is a hard mask and I had to wear it for 24hrs straight  except to take it off for sips of water.  It totally dried out my nose. After, my nose was swollen like Karl Malden's,was bruised ,  and my skin dried out on it.   Then on an O2 canula for a total of 3 weeks while  they slowly lowered the oxygen flow. I spent a week in the ICU because of that instead of the normal 1-2 days. They took a bunch of x-rays of my lungs and were talking about scoping my lungs, but things improved. Take my O2 every morning and night and it is always 95-97 for the past year..