Hi, my name is Jeanette. I have just been diagnosed a few weeks ago. So I sleep with my cpap machine and my husband sleeps with his.. I have severe sleep apnea but with losing weight I am lessening off the pressure by just a little bit.. I feel like I am buzzing and it wakes me through the night.. so nurse said to try turning it down a little.. We would look a funny / scary sight if anyone came into our room...
Hi Phil I haven't been on my cpap machine very long either. I was anxious at first, but it helped to talk to a friend of mine that night before I started using it. and it seemed to help, as he had been using his for nearly 3 years. I am also a very nervous person, and suffered a really bad anxiety attack afew days after starting to use my machine. It wasn't so much the machine that I was concerned about, it was more the reason why I had to use it. Thats what did it for me.
Hi Everyone, For absolute years I have been trying to lose weight. Getting up to go to the bathroom a lot through the night. Doctor at the time just said that it was because I was getting older etc etc. For a while I have been getting swelling in the lower legs and feet, a sign that the heart is not working as effectively as it should be. Exasperated with everything I told the Doctor something has to be wrong. Finally with all the blood tests done, there was only one more test to do, and that was the sleep test. So went to the sleep lab on the 18th of Dec 2018. After being hooked up for an hour, they came in and told me that I fit the criteria. Before I new it they were fitting a mask and telling me to go back to sleep. A bit scary. I was having 60 events per hour, no wonder I felt like I did for so long. Anyway in the morning when I woke up, I felt great and could not believe that I hadn't gotten up once to go to the bathroom. That is my story, but I am now struggling with the machine. I have lost 9 kilo's, so wondering if the pressure is now too high. I am waking at least once in the night, feeling like I am tingling or vibrating on the inside. No pain, just weird. It's almost like I am getting to much air. Has anyone else felt like this, would be interested to know.
