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Permalink Reply by sleepycarol on July 21, 2009 at 12:13am

I read through some of your other posts and it appears you didn't have a titration study. Is that correct? Do you have complex sleep apnea or other problems compounding your need for a VPAP? What is your diagnosis? From your previous posts you have only been on a machine for about a month and a half -- many of us took much longer than that to start feeling better.

I, also, read on one of your post that you averaged only about 6 hours of sleep -- your body needs more than that to restore itself. Try to get at least 8 hours every night. You may also need more sleep at the start to help pay your sleep debt down.

On a typical average night how long are you sleeping?

Have you talked with the sleep doctor about doing a titration study?

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Permalink Reply by Mike on July 21, 2009 at 12:22am

good question. i don't know the answer. maybe you'll find something in this blog post about sleep apnea and disability on point.

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Permalink Reply by RockRpsgt on July 21, 2009 at 8:06am

Chris I have never heard of anyone getting disability due to apnea. Off the top of my head the only sleep disorder that warrents disability is narcolepsy. i know that there are more, but I have been up all night. I too have followed your case very closely. Like Carol I do not believe that you are doing everything you can to make your treatment work.

Why did you not have a titration?

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Permalink Reply by Chris on July 21, 2009 at 10:40am

Rock Hinkle said:

Chris I have never heard of anyone getting disability due to apnea. Off the top of my head the only sleep disorder that warrents disability is narcolepsy. i know that there are more, but I have been up all night. I too have followed your case very closely. Like Carol I do not believe that you are doing everything you can to make your treatment work.

Why did you not have a titration?

The first time I went for a titration my alergys were kicking my butt. Had a very bad case of congestion and the ding bat wanted me to use a nasal mask! Only got a few hours of sleep because of the mask and congestion. The second attempt I had a bad case of indigestion so I only got a few hours of sleep that night. For some reason my doc thought I could not tolerate straight cpap so he gave me a bilevel machine and gussed at the pressure settings.

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Permalink Reply by Chris on July 21, 2009 at 12:22pm

sleepycarol said:

I read through some of your other posts and it appears you didn't have a titration study. Is that correct? Do you have complex sleep apnea or other problems compounding your need for a VPAP? What is your diagnosis? From your previous posts you have only been on a machine for about a month and a half -- many of us took much longer than that to start feeling better.

I, also, read on one of your post that you averaged only about 6 hours of sleep -- your body needs more than that to restore itself. Try to get at least 8 hours every night. You may also need more sleep at the start to help pay your sleep debt down.

On a typical average night how long are you sleeping?

Have you talked with the sleep doctor about doing a titration study?

If I sleep without the cpap I will get 8 hours of sleep but only about 6 hours with it. As far as sleep disorder they said I have moderate apnea after a sleep study.

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Permalink Reply by Moe-jo on July 21, 2009 at 1:27pm

Chris, sorry to hear about your accident, I hope you weren't hurt. While disability is not likely an option, maybe vocational rehab is? I don't know where you live or what benefits you have access to (sorry for the poor sentence structure), but if you can't do your current job, maybe your disability carrier would consider retraining.

I expect that first, you would have to run the gambit of solutions to the problem though, such as making sure your current therapy is actually effective. So I think the other advice here is the course to follow.

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