Hello Sleeprider. Thank you for the message regarding how I'm doing. Hello again everyone!
Unfortunately things are not so great at the moment. I had to turn in my ST-A which was working pretty well. Not perfect, but better than any of the other machines. My health insurance company did not do an adequate job of explaining what the ST-A machine would cost me each month and it turned out to be more of an expense than I could handle. So I'm not sleeping very well at all at this time. (Strangest thing though, is I am now dreaming every night. I didn't even dream WITH the machine and haven't had dreams for a million years.). But now I wake up at least 4 times a night (that I know of) and have clear recollections of my dreams. I wonder why I didn't dream with any of my machines.

I do have the headaches again, stupid low oxygen
My husband says I still sit up and sleep, I even fell out of bed recently...that hurt. Skinned my knee but luckily didn't hit my head on the bedside table. As was mentioned a while ago, the sleep sitting IS a form of sleepwalking. The medication that was supposed to help with this did not work.
I do have a good development, my meralgia seems to be subsiding quite a bit, this is DEFINITELY a positive.
I have been looking around online for used ST-A machines and the prices are still out of my reach at this time. Luckily I haven't been working quite as many late shifts, so falling asleep at work hasn't been too big of a problem, same with my driving at night. I do get complaints from my husband though that I fall asleep too early.
Anywho....I will persevere through this. I hope everyone else is continuing to find the wonderful help that this board provides and I will try to not be a stranger so long again.