(12-25-2020, 11:54 AM)jaswilliams Wrote: Hopefully you trips to the loo will reduce as well that is often a benefit of cpap therapy
That is true. I only go once a night now, sometimes not at all, but at my age I doubt it will ever be no trips most of the time. I have to use a potty as I have M. syncope, a condition that makes me faint when getting to urinate. As I start, I faint. Hence 5 ICU visits last year. A few times I have just fallen back on my bed. I always seem to have finished, fortunately! I cannot recall what the M. stands for.
Because of brain damage though, I am very prone to falling, mostly backwards, too. The fainting when peeing at night is a known condition. Although it is in my notes, I just found out, no one bothered to tell me. Same with biventricular failure. I found out upon leaving the hospital and reading my discharge papers. No one is perfect and perhaps they did tell me and I just did not twig. I was told the bottom left ventricle of my heart was damaged and didn't pump properly. I also have scarring from a heart attack that happened when I was somewhere else because I don't recall having one. Oh, did you know there is such a thing as a silent heart attack? Anyway, back to what I read. I was not a happy bunny when I read online what it meant. Congestive Heart Failure is now in my records. Those actual words. I guess that is what the lovely doc, she was, was telling me with her description of what was wrong. I just would have preferred to know the proper words. The more I know and understand the better I feel even if it is scary.
I just take each day as it comes and am grateful each day that I am still here enjoying my life. Life has been very very much worse and I never dreamed I'd really get to this. I also never forget how terrible the lives of others can be. I am not in a war zone, living under a dictatorship, no longer living in a country where being me was a crime, and not living in one where I would be beheaded for being me. I am not a 5yr old with cancer or no food in my belly. There is much to be grateful for but when life is very hard and one has much pain, emotional or physical, it can be hard to be grateful for my blessings.
As for CPAP therapy, it doesn't bother me one bit. It has improved my life so much. It doesn't bother me having to wear a mask. Better than a colostomy.
Rambling again.
kindest regards