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Thanks all. After 3 days I am down to 3.4 episodes per hour so something is definitely happening!
My husband doesn't believe my test results are right. He thinks the machine wasn't working. I don't know who to believe. I guess I'm just going to have to use the machine until I have the bypass and lose the weight, then hopefully I won't need it any more. It's just that in all the research I've done, no other person has had even close to the results I got and not feel major symptoms. It seems crazy to me.
Hi, I'm Heather from the UK. I was referred to have a sleep study as a routine investigation as I am on the waiting list to receive a gastric bypass. I had the test and was immediately sent to chest clinic and then to be given a CPAP machine as my results were so dramatic. I suffered on average 121.8 apneas in each hour, the longest being an astonishing 88 seconds.
My question is, how come I never felt tired?! If I was so bad (doctor said "I'm surprised you are still alive" - so helpful), shouldn't I have been dozy and falling asleep all the time? I've now had my CPAP for 3 days and to be honest I have felt really tired since I started using it! I have slept pretty much all night each night, haven't taken it off in each 7-8 hour sleep and seem to get along with it fine.
I'm just wondering if anyone else had the same thing, i.e. no real symptoms and diagnosis coming "by accident" in a manner of speaking.
Thanks :-)
