PAP causing sleep debt ?
I was put on a bipap, repironics s9 with heated humidifer in late August. I survived my 30 days at between 7 and 8 hours a night but whne counting all of the mask adjustmetnst and just plain being awake like I had three cups of coffee I think my sleep was under half of that.Right after this I got a case of the flu as I always do when someone insists I have a flue shot, not a bad cas, but one that produced lots of rhinitis. I also have a deviated septum and as a result am addicted to afrin. The sleep doc knew all of this. I was told that Ihave hypopnea. I understand this a slowing of breathing but not a stop. I was told I had 23 incidents and hour and so level dropped to 80 once. Most of the time it was around 90. NOw what I was not told was if the these were incidents of shallow breathing or sleep disturbances. I have had terrible time since startng, ostly it is as if I had three cups of strong coffee before bed. I am now down to trying thing less than three hours a night.
I never had daytime drowsyness, now I do not really trust myself to drive some days. So when I tal to the DME people thye say well that is normal for the first few months. I cannot accept that, in the first place I never really knew I had a problem and exhibited no classic symptoms of sleep problems. After the 30 days the change if any was negaitve. I have some rythmn issues but did not change a thing there. So my question is is it possible this was a treatment with marginal benefit for me? I do not like that kind of medicine. MY pressure seem to indicate a more serious problem then I was told or I percieve. Right now I think this is not a helpful thing for me. I am kind of angry at all oif the scare tactics, I want real information. I think I am treated as a part of production line, I am an individual and one I react differently than averages no matter what staitical driven Docs or bean counters think. I fully understand why people give this therapy up. I want to know if any others feel they were prescribed a treatment at the margins. I will try this again but if I go six weeks with no apparent benefit I will consider this to be a fraud. Understand I have no idea what benefit I am supposed to see becasue I do not know for what symton I was sent a for a sleep study. I trust my family physcian but it was a sort lets see, well the lets see was never explained with a why. I beieve the sleep physcian is so convinced he can help that perhaps he forgets to say to himself is help needed. I do not know but I one feel like a failure but I don't know why I shoudl since I never knew the clear objjectives of what has turned out to be detrinetal expnce, one tha thas cost Medicare a lot of money perhaps unecessarilu and I do not mean fraudulently I just mean perhpas with a little deep thought this torture was not necessary. Right now perhaps becasue I am so darn tired I am getting very angry.
I never had daytime drowsyness, now I do not really trust myself to drive some days. So when I tal to the DME people thye say well that is normal for the first few months. I cannot accept that, in the first place I never really knew I had a problem and exhibited no classic symptoms of sleep problems. After the 30 days the change if any was negaitve. I have some rythmn issues but did not change a thing there. So my question is is it possible this was a treatment with marginal benefit for me? I do not like that kind of medicine. MY pressure seem to indicate a more serious problem then I was told or I percieve. Right now I think this is not a helpful thing for me. I am kind of angry at all oif the scare tactics, I want real information. I think I am treated as a part of production line, I am an individual and one I react differently than averages no matter what staitical driven Docs or bean counters think. I fully understand why people give this therapy up. I want to know if any others feel they were prescribed a treatment at the margins. I will try this again but if I go six weeks with no apparent benefit I will consider this to be a fraud. Understand I have no idea what benefit I am supposed to see becasue I do not know for what symton I was sent a for a sleep study. I trust my family physcian but it was a sort lets see, well the lets see was never explained with a why. I beieve the sleep physcian is so convinced he can help that perhaps he forgets to say to himself is help needed. I do not know but I one feel like a failure but I don't know why I shoudl since I never knew the clear objjectives of what has turned out to be detrinetal expnce, one tha thas cost Medicare a lot of money perhaps unecessarilu and I do not mean fraudulently I just mean perhpas with a little deep thought this torture was not necessary. Right now perhaps becasue I am so darn tired I am getting very angry.
