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During my sleep study, without CPAP I acheived zero minutes of stage 3 (what they classify as deep sleep) and zero minutes of REM sleep. With CPAP, out of 190 minutes of sleep with a mask, I achieved 33 minutes of stage 3 sleep, still zero REM.
I guess it might be worthwhile to have the study run again to see if I achieve any REM sleep now that I have a mask consistently?
Oh, and no vivid dreams and 1 trip to the rest room each night.
Have you talked to them about it? I would raise holy h&ll and make them provide adequate tubing. I just got my resmed machine recently (about a month ago) and I noticed a mild chemical smell (and I have a nose that can pick up things that the canine unit misses) but it dissipated quickly. I would make them address it.
I would caution the accuracy of the home tests. I had one that said I had "mild" apnea that didn't require any treatment (even though it showed my osats dropped to 70%). My doctor wasn't satified and sent me for a clinical test. It showed I had 91 episodes an hour and had severe apnea. I was given a CPAP machine immediately. I'd work to get a clinical setting test instead of wasting money on another home test.
I thought that is how they were designed to work. They ramp up. Mine starts at 5 and I think goes to 12? (I don't remember the exact numbers). When I get up to go to the bathroom and put it back on, it drops back down to 5 and then does the rampup cycle again.
I'm very new to this CPAP thing, but during my sleep study they tried a nasal mask on me... and determined I was too much of a mouth breather to get adequate therapy with it, so they moved me to a small full face mask. I have zero leak issues with that.
I know that this seems to be a common topic on this board, and I read through many responses before posting the same question again, but I've read all the responses and most of them say to analyze the data from your machine.
My data is GREAT. I have a Airsense machine and use the MyAir app with it. My scores are high 90s to 100 every single night. My episodes went from 91 an hour to typically less than 1. My seal gets a perfect score, everything gets a perfect or near perfect score.
I've been wearing it for over a month. I noticed that in the morning I had more energy after the first week or so. But then I had extensive travel (NY, home for 6 hours, then Denmark, home for 4 days then VA home for 3 days then DC) but during that entire time, my numbers still looked great.
So WHY am I still so dang tired :( All of my labs look great, I wear b12 patches to try and get more energy... Last night I was alseep my 8pm. I wake up at 5am every day... 5am this morning, I was exhausted. 10am at work and I could literally go home and go to bed without an issue. I am SO frustrated. I remember a time that I had energy (ample amounts of it). Now I'd just be happy to get through a work day and not feel like I have to crawl into bed the second I get home.
