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I have a bad case of sleep apnea. I did the test and was issued a machine. The machine put up so much pressure that I had trouble exhaling. So, I didn't another test with a Bpac machine, and they said it is what I need. I have to go back to the sleep doctor next Friday so Medicare will cover it. I hope it is worth it.

It will save your life. You will feel a hell of lot better.
 

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I wake up several times a night with pain. Either my chest, back or legs. The legs are most often and I have to get up and walk around usually cussing all the way. Got so bad the wife and I sleep in separate rooms some nights. I can not sleep with anything over my face, I panic. Even an oxygen mask is tough for me to sleep with. Last time in the hospital I went three days without sleep until they decide just a cannula was OK. I have to have the O2 even when I sleep but even it wakes me up at times. Only things I have found that help are Nyquil and a mild muscle relaxant every other day.
 

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My apnea was/is from a crushed septum from many breaks, and I fell on a plastic flute when I was 5 years old or so and ran it up through my mouth into my brain cavity. 6 broken noses, several smashes in the face. Until they operate, I use a sleep machine. Had full Heart Work up as they told me Apnea will **** your heart up and kill you. So full heart inspection at 61. Two back to back Angiograms. They did not believe the first one. Zero Plaque Buildup, Zero Vein/ Arteries, 100% perfect heart valves, Zero Cholesterol, Pulmonary Lung Function of a 20yr old. My heart, veins, lungs and such are still young. All my Apnea is from Traumatic Head and Facial Trauma. But that first full night sleep, I woke up like a new man!


If anyone’s wife/gals tells you you snore like hell, go get tested. It will flat out kill ya. I was at the point wher it caused me to A Fib. Once the Apnea was fixed, no more A-Fib.
 

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I wake up several times a night with pain. Either my chest, back or legs. The legs are most often and I have to get up and walk around usually cussing all the way. Got so bad the wife and I sleep in separate rooms some nights. I can not sleep with anything over my face, I panic. Even an oxygen mask is tough for me to sleep with. Last time in the hospital I went three days without sleep until they decide just a cannula was OK. I have to have the O2 even when I sleep but even it wakes me up at times. Only things I have found that help are Nyquil and a mild muscle relaxant every other day.

I was same way on **** on my face. But the night I fell asleep with it, I was a different man the very next day.
 

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At my last duty station from 2011-2014, I had to open our workspace at 0445, so I got up at 0300. I've been waking up at around 0300 ever since, without an alarm. I just can't seem to stay asleep past 0400 anymore, even on days off
 

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What is the difference he asks with a perfectly good computer with Google Chrome as a search engine?

How Is BiPAP Different From CPAP? The key difference between BiPAP and CPAP is that a BiPAP machine provides different air pressure levels for inhalation and exhalation. In contrast, a CPAP machine uses the same amount of air pressure whether the sleeper using the machine is breathing in or out.

So I guess the BiPAP is the next generation of the device?
What ever you get is probably better than nothing, but the best thing is now VPAP. Variable Positive Airway Pressure. If you aren't breathing like you should, it ramps up to where you should be, and holds it as long as you need it. RESMED Airsense 10 is what I have, and mine is old and beat to crap, and I need it to get replaced, but it's still better than 90 events an hour. If I can manage to sleep in my side, like I did for the little bit of sleep I got, I get .4 events per hour. If I spend more time on my back, it's between 2.4 and 1.9 events per hour most nights. SWMBO is using a slightly newer one herself. Last test they did on her, before they gave her back her oxygen, she was getting 125 events per hours. Afterwards, it rose to 190 per hour. But they were using an older RESMED model that we trashed nearly a decade ago. I started on the CPAP at age 57. I was a new teacher, and it destroyed my teaching career, completely. Couldn't write a lesson plan, couldn't follow one if someone else wrote it for me. Though my kids did get better at math, reading, writing and English. Wasn't enough, though. Results aren't as important as dotting all the i's and crossing all the t's. And I get it, I helped throw kids out of the Air Force who couldn't or wouldn't do the job. Didn't get my results until after the end of the year, or the first CPAP machine until September. Made a huge difference! For SWMBO, she needs supplemental oxygen as well as the CPAP. With it, she gets about 2 events per hour and pulsox about 97-98. Goes to 10 or so without oxy, but still better than 88 pulsox. We got her tested the first time because I woke up one night, and she wasn't breathing. I started counting seconds, and two minutes later she still hadn't taken a breath. So I shook her, and woke her up. She cussed me for the next 30 minute. She said she was almost to the light and I made her come back. Had to, the idea of trying to raise our kids by myself terrified me!
 

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At my last duty station from 2011-2014, I had to open our workspace at 0445, so I got up at 0300. I've been waking up at around 0300 ever since, without an alarm. I just can't seem to stay asleep past 0400 anymore, even on days off


Yes. Milked and fed all my life growing up, that and working I am a early riser early to bed.
 

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It will save your life. You will feel a hell of lot better.
Like I said. Lot's of dead end trails and lines you'll run with nothing. But eventually it'll work and the first nigh it does, you'll think you found the holy grail. Just find that sleep specialist you need and latch on him like a stolen pig. Ha.
I was headed for Heart Attack and was damaging my lungs when I found the one I needed. Don't give up
 

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