I have not posted in here for over year. I've been
so disillusioned with cpap. I owned my cpap for about 18 months. After numerous adjustments, breathers, which nothing has ever helped. I decided to lose weight starting this past January. Ok. I'm down to 200 pounds from 254. This did not help. I gave up on the cpap machine because that did not help after fighting with it for a year. My sleep Doctor would give me something to get me to sleep( which did not work) and I still felt bad after I was up for 4 or 5 hours. Then my sleep Doctor gave me some provigil to take in the afternoon, but this just made me feel not good at all. Well, I just started on the cpap machine again and of course it's not doing a thing..My family Doctor put me on Ambien which does help me get to sleep, but I still feel very very tired at around noon every day.
So now, I'm just on the Ambien but this is having side affects. Trying to wean my self off of it.
My question here is, can one get permanent disability from having sleep apnea? I just don't know what else to do. I get off of work at 3:30 pm and hope I can drive home ok. I have to schedule anything I do around the house before 1pm or I'm just to exhausted to do any thing.
Like I say, I'm trying the cpap machine again but one of the main problems is, I wake up from breathing out of my mouth from the noise. I have the nasal pillows. I was going to put duck tape over my mouth but my wife started to yell at me.
Another thing that bothers me is I'll find different articles on line about cpap machine being a buch of crock. It has not helped me even though I would get 5 to 6 hours of sleep a night with it before. Now I'm trying to get use to it all over again.
I guess I've said enough and you all get the point. I just don't want to live like this.
Mitch
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