BZ

I appreciate the helpful info buy all. Its nice to hear from people who understand how hard it is to deal with the problem and our poor health care system. I am leaning towards cpap as sleepdent and my primary care doctor said a lot has changed in the last 3 years. I will let all know my out come and hope i can help others as a result of my own experience. Thank you doctorlulu for your response and comment.

Thank you sleepDent for your input. I am not sure if i should seek another dental sleep doctor or retry the cpap? I only went to this doctor because he was a medical doctor/dentist and my insurance covered it. My actual dentist said his appliance is smaller and lighter but my insurance would not cover it and it was quite expensive. You mentioned drinking before bedtime, i stopped drinking for 2 years and it was the same. I always push myself and stay active but some days its really hard.Thanks again for your input.

Hi all, i had my first sleep study done about 3 years ago where i stayed over night and was told i had mild apnea and went back to spend the night using cpap. After 3 hours i left study as i could not tolerate the cpap. About 7 months ago i had an at home sleep study done and was told i had moderate apnea. This time i had a dental appliance made and found that to be like sticking a brick in my mouth and has not helped as i find it laying on the bed when i wake up. I'm thinking of re-trying cpap as i have to do something. Thinking of buying an airsense 10 machine and skipping going back to doctor as i have bad health insurance(high deductible). I don't understand and this is my question, if i have sleep apnea wouldn't i feel tired every day? Some times a feel so tired i don't know how i'm going to make it through the day and the next day i feel really good. It can be every other day or i have 2 or 3 really bad days and then can have 2 or 3 good days??? The bad days aside from feeling really tired i have a headache , trouble concentrating, nasea. Most off the time it is every other day. It is like on the bad days my body is so wiped out that it shuts down and i sleep good and feel better the next day. I also some times suffer from insomnia. Any feed back would be appreciated.

Thanks Bob