BiPAP help!
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who_needs_sleepThe very abbreviated sleep history of becc, age 31:
April '08 - diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea. given CPAP and told if I lost weight, the apnea would probably go away.
July '08 - had bariatric surgery.
somewhere in fall of '08 - stopped using CPAP as apnea had in fact gone away.
July '11 - went to doctor because sleep was becoming even more problematic than usual (I'm a crappy sleeper, always have been; I have anxiety so falling asleep is an issue and waking up several times a night also happens) and got referred to sleep doctor.
--Sleep doc did one study, and confirmed I have complex sleep apnea--so now in addition to my throat getting closed off, my brain keeps forgetting to tell my body to breathe*.
August '11--given BiPAP machine.
The BiPAP? Sucks donkey balls. Sorry for the language. It has a 20-min warmup to the stated pressure, which is great, and at about 25 minutes I can't breathe with it and I'm ripping the headgear off my head. It's trying to force me to breathe in rhythm with it, only if I breathed with the biPAP I'd be hyperventilating. I can't stand the changing pressure and it makes me feel claustrophobic and...gah.
Does anyone out here use a BiPAP and have suggestions for breathing with it? Because I'm about to go Office Space on this thing.
April '08 - diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea. given CPAP and told if I lost weight, the apnea would probably go away.
July '08 - had bariatric surgery.
somewhere in fall of '08 - stopped using CPAP as apnea had in fact gone away.
July '11 - went to doctor because sleep was becoming even more problematic than usual (I'm a crappy sleeper, always have been; I have anxiety so falling asleep is an issue and waking up several times a night also happens) and got referred to sleep doctor.
--Sleep doc did one study, and confirmed I have complex sleep apnea--so now in addition to my throat getting closed off, my brain keeps forgetting to tell my body to breathe*.
August '11--given BiPAP machine.
The BiPAP? Sucks donkey balls. Sorry for the language. It has a 20-min warmup to the stated pressure, which is great, and at about 25 minutes I can't breathe with it and I'm ripping the headgear off my head. It's trying to force me to breathe in rhythm with it, only if I breathed with the biPAP I'd be hyperventilating. I can't stand the changing pressure and it makes me feel claustrophobic and...gah.
Does anyone out here use a BiPAP and have suggestions for breathing with it? Because I'm about to go Office Space on this thing.
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Date: 2011-08-10 12:56 am (UTC)