Was diagnosed with sleep apnea back in 2001 but choose not to do anything about it. Fast forward to last year when I couldn't stay awake for nothing I finally went to my doctor told her my problems and she ordered a sleep study. They woke me up after 4 hours and said my sleep apnea was life threating AHI of just over 113 and that they wanted to put me on a cpap and titrate it right then and there. Maxed out the first machine at 20 so they got a BIPAP and pumped it up to 25 and now I sleep with a average AHI of around 5-6. I feel amazing!! I've been using it now for the past 7 months and can't imagine trying to sleep without it. I've had a lot of people ask me if I'm overweight as my AHI was so high, I'm not overweight at all I'm 5'9" and weigh 145 lbs so for a guy I'm pretty thin. Glad to be part of this group and to see so many doing well.
The Epworth scale is a self administered test but there is no way of being able to say you have severe sleep apnea unless you have had a sleep study. The Epworth scale is just someone asking you questions. When you talk of having severe sleep apnea what is your AHI levels?
