RE: Hi, new here----Question Please
Thanks for all your help and i do apologize ahead of time for the very long posts ;-)
me50: No as it turned out the Doctor did not write the pressure number down by mistake and that day he was away on vacation and won't be back until tomorrow. I suspect we will pop back up there on Saturday and get his for him. In fact, I had wanted to go with a different mask and chin restraints as some others had mentioned here but they only brought this one style of unit in. I suspect its the most expensive and they are pushing it for that reason. In my case i have 30 days to switch it so I MUST start tonight so I can use it for ¾ nights and if I can't get used to it I will switch it for what others here suggested. Hopefully if i am doing that we will pick p his machine the same day, when the doctor writes it in properly for them.
Ok, I have been putting it off until now but tonight is D-Night ;-(
Someone asked if it could be positional with me?
Possible?
As I always slept on my sides and only recently have been sleeping on my back.
This is why they are re-doing the sleep study in the next 3 weeks. The first time apparently they were supposed to wake us up during the night and force us on to our side but didn't and we both stayed on our backs all night. They don't feel it was a fair study. We were in hospital beds where the head and bottom of the bed can be raised so I had them both raised but primarily the feet as its good to sleep with your feet elevated but in retrospect, its not how I sleep naturally and i should not have done so that night for there isn't any way I would flip over in that position anyhow.
In my case, I developed bi-positional vertigo 4 years ago so I cannot lay on my right side with my head turned to my right ( down) as it will set it off so that was about when I begs to naturally stay on my back.
Secondly. I am 54 but up until 4 years ago I had the body of a 20 year old, flat tummy, etc. never having had children and weight about 120 an ideal weight for my size.
Due to some medication I was put on, I developed an insatiable craving for sweets and at the same time stopped walking and began to ride a scooter everywhere. The combined effect, had me gain about 50 pounds which is a hell of a lot of weight for me. I'm just now off the medication as it was temporary, well, as in a couple of years but no longer needed and now its just time for me to start walking daily again, and dropping the weight without the high sugar intake daily and my weight will drop back to its normal state. Who knows? Perhaps I will gain an extra 5-10 pounds but my body could deal with it if it did, or at least how it was 4 years ago.
The sleep doctor seemed to feel that because this weight gain is, as he hopes, temporary, that I didn't need the machine but i pushed for it so we went ahead.
One other thing I have noticed and i don't know if any of you are the same.............I have noticed over the years that as i am sitting at the computer, or watching TV, reading a book and I will suddenly notice, although i am fully awake, that i have stopped breathing for a few seconds. Almost as if one does by holding their breath for a moment if they are watching a scary movie and that part is the part that scares them at that moment, well, often people hold their breath for a moment until that scene moves forward.
In my case, i don't know why I do it but have always done so, even when thinner, years earlier etc so MAYBE this is part of it or a tendency towards this happening when I sleep.....wonder if any of you also do this or whether its just normal to do so anyhow??!!
Ok LAST BUT NOT LEAST.
My machine is the RESMED S9 Series. I think he said the best in the line at the moment.
I have plugged it in, getting it ready for tonight. The SD card was already in.
I have filled it with water.
Before I go to bed do i just press the START button and it will automatically work for me?
I know he told me when I picked it up but it all seems to have left me.
I assume he set it to fit the prescription number its supposed to be at, correct?
So aside from putting on the hose and the mask, there isn't anything else i need to do is there???
me50: No as it turned out the Doctor did not write the pressure number down by mistake and that day he was away on vacation and won't be back until tomorrow. I suspect we will pop back up there on Saturday and get his for him. In fact, I had wanted to go with a different mask and chin restraints as some others had mentioned here but they only brought this one style of unit in. I suspect its the most expensive and they are pushing it for that reason. In my case i have 30 days to switch it so I MUST start tonight so I can use it for ¾ nights and if I can't get used to it I will switch it for what others here suggested. Hopefully if i am doing that we will pick p his machine the same day, when the doctor writes it in properly for them.
Ok, I have been putting it off until now but tonight is D-Night ;-(
Someone asked if it could be positional with me?
Possible?
As I always slept on my sides and only recently have been sleeping on my back.
This is why they are re-doing the sleep study in the next 3 weeks. The first time apparently they were supposed to wake us up during the night and force us on to our side but didn't and we both stayed on our backs all night. They don't feel it was a fair study. We were in hospital beds where the head and bottom of the bed can be raised so I had them both raised but primarily the feet as its good to sleep with your feet elevated but in retrospect, its not how I sleep naturally and i should not have done so that night for there isn't any way I would flip over in that position anyhow.
In my case, I developed bi-positional vertigo 4 years ago so I cannot lay on my right side with my head turned to my right ( down) as it will set it off so that was about when I begs to naturally stay on my back.
Secondly. I am 54 but up until 4 years ago I had the body of a 20 year old, flat tummy, etc. never having had children and weight about 120 an ideal weight for my size.
Due to some medication I was put on, I developed an insatiable craving for sweets and at the same time stopped walking and began to ride a scooter everywhere. The combined effect, had me gain about 50 pounds which is a hell of a lot of weight for me. I'm just now off the medication as it was temporary, well, as in a couple of years but no longer needed and now its just time for me to start walking daily again, and dropping the weight without the high sugar intake daily and my weight will drop back to its normal state. Who knows? Perhaps I will gain an extra 5-10 pounds but my body could deal with it if it did, or at least how it was 4 years ago.
The sleep doctor seemed to feel that because this weight gain is, as he hopes, temporary, that I didn't need the machine but i pushed for it so we went ahead.
One other thing I have noticed and i don't know if any of you are the same.............I have noticed over the years that as i am sitting at the computer, or watching TV, reading a book and I will suddenly notice, although i am fully awake, that i have stopped breathing for a few seconds. Almost as if one does by holding their breath for a moment if they are watching a scary movie and that part is the part that scares them at that moment, well, often people hold their breath for a moment until that scene moves forward.
In my case, i don't know why I do it but have always done so, even when thinner, years earlier etc so MAYBE this is part of it or a tendency towards this happening when I sleep.....wonder if any of you also do this or whether its just normal to do so anyhow??!!
Ok LAST BUT NOT LEAST.
My machine is the RESMED S9 Series. I think he said the best in the line at the moment.
I have plugged it in, getting it ready for tonight. The SD card was already in.
I have filled it with water.
Before I go to bed do i just press the START button and it will automatically work for me?
I know he told me when I picked it up but it all seems to have left me.
I assume he set it to fit the prescription number its supposed to be at, correct?
So aside from putting on the hose and the mask, there isn't anything else i need to do is there???
