Quote Originally Posted by allegate View Post
It didn't help that the guy told me "you have to use it for at least four hours a night for the first month or we'll take it back" so I was forcing myself to keep it on and that didn't help either. It felt like being waterboarded by air* and the guy said I couldn't take it off so it was a literal struggle to keep it on. Like my legs were thrashing on the bed. All I can say is that I'm glad we have separate beds.**

* turns out the pressure was a 5-20 variance and the machine would ramp up to what was necessary but I was told it should never get to the 20 unless it was really bad. I looked at the display and it said 17.7 but I was awake and those numbers should be in the 5-7 range. I called the sleep people and they said "oh you saw it wrong" but they looked at the reports (it has a modem built in so it's a little big brother telling on me) and said wow let's bring it down to 15.

** long story short we had to get separate beds because she needs an adjustable bed for sleeping due to pain management. she's very practicable like that as she didn't want me to be forced to adjust my sleeping due to her.
Quote Originally Posted by allegro View Post
@allegate So the thing that’s supposed to be helping with your sleep problems is making your sleep worse. I swear, it seems like 80% of the population over a certain age is on that CPAP shit and I’m sending some conspiracy.
don't know if y'all remember but when i tried to get an APAP machine (CPAP is constant airflow, APAP is supposed to adjust based on its sensor data regarding your breathing) after doing a sleep study, i had the most terrifying and horrible night of sleep i've ever gotten, the thing gave me the worst migraine i've ever had, and i told them i refused to use it. thankfully, my apnea is positional (so i trained myself to stop sleeping on my back) and my insomnia was (mostly) cleared up by the meds i take for bi-polar 2 / borderline. i got lucky. but a lot of people have SERIOUS issues with those machines, and i understand why. they're an extremely imperfect science.