lee babcock

Mary...... I know what you are going through. I suspect that you, like
me had sleep apnea for many years. After CPAP, most of the mental
problems (i.e. cognitive powers) were back in about three or four
months. However, I have had permanent short term memory processing
problems that appear to be permanent.
Anyone that was as bad off as you were can't expect any instant
solution.
Be patient and worry about and deal with the more serious problem at the
moment, the acid reflux. This is a very serious problem!
I had the same thing but started sleeping on my back with my upper body
elevated. I used an 8" foam sleeping wedge and the problem disappered.
Keep plugging away. You health problems took a long time to develop so
you have to wait for some of results.
Regards
Lee in toronto


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maryrae26

Many thanks to all of you for writing. Always makes me feel better to
have some opinions from people who have been through the same problem.
OK, back to bed to get some more of that oxygen!...............Mary
Rae

debbie

Hi Mary, So wonderful that you have a cpap! I have had mine seven years,
and although I have had a tremendous (pun) battle of the bulge, my overall
health has improved. I am 'only 60'......! Anyway before I got my cpap, I
thought I was going insane from menapause...didn't even know what sleep
apnea was but I went for a sleep study on my own. I didn't even ask my
doc.....my neighbor knew the director of a sleep clinic in Boston, and I
called and set up an appt. on my own. Those were the days, when it would
slip by if you didn't get a referral first....but eventually the clinic
called my doc to get a referral for insurance.

Anyway there's so many awful things that used to happen to me pre
cpap...like standing on a stool to fix my curtains and I actually fell off
the high stool onto the floor. Fell down the stairs (only three stairs out
on my deck, but I was carrying a ficus plant and I injured my knee which has
never been the same, but I was ok. And I used to drop plates, fell right
out of my hand when I was taking a plate from the cabinet to use for eating
etc......those were the biggies....but, there were such miserable episodes
of waking myself up screaming and feeling like I couldn't breathe and having
to sleep sitting up (really sitting up) with comforters (probably four of
them!) resting against my headboard, and halucinations, seeing spiders
crawling on my ceiling (which I actually had for years and years). Oh,
thank god for that wonderful inventions.....our cpap's.....we are all so
fortunate, and prob. half of us would not even be alive to tell our stories
if we didn't use our cpaps. So, good for you that you have yours, and as
far as your memory and mind stuff....ya, I have that too....but who
doesn't??? DebbieD

tal

you think spider hallucinations were from untreated apnea?
interesting......i get those too LOL..

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yet another reason i wish i was seeing the benefits of CPAP! Tho i'm pretty
convinced these days that CPAP is treating the apnea but that i'm exhausted
for other reasons

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debbie

Beth, I know how you feel. I have insomnia so badly....not related to my
sleep apnea at all. I was on seroquel and ativan for a year to help me
sleep; and it did; but I was so drugged during the day, and eventually I
felt as tho I was going into such a deep sleep, it was very scarey to me, so
I stopped both with support from my pdoc. So it's been a month now since I
stopped the meds and literally don't sleep. An example is that I didn't go
to sleep the night before, or last nite at all, and yesterday I took a nap
for an hour during the day. The more I don't sleep, the more 'wired' I get,
and it's harder and harder for me to go to sleep at all. Well, I don't
have a job so that's not a problem, but I surely miss summertime, being so
exhausted during the day. It has to be something physical, even tho
everyone says it's psychological.....why wouldn't I want to sleep? Life is
tough sometimes, DebbieD

tamarisk

Before I got my CPAP I had the wildest oxygen deprevation
induced dreams... Really vivid strange stuff. One I remember
particularly was having a conversation with a piece of tree
bark and then walking down the sidewalk holding it's hand
while exchanging glances while we were talking and walking.
You see the 6" x 10" piece of tree bark I was walking with
was my long dead grandfather...

Thank you, CPAP, for bringing back to the real world!

Ken