I am so sorry to hear that your husband had a bypass and you have had to take on more responsibilities. But, happy he is doing wll! I had a similiar situation several year's ago when my husband had surgery for a rare primary cancer. He had to give up a lot of his life's activities including work. I am the only one working now plus responsible fo seeing that he uses his CPAP as he should. I did notice that when he will not use the CPAP that he is terribe exhausted, tired and irritable during the day. When I "force" the issue and get him to use the CPAP, all that goes away during the day. I am suggesting that your day time tiredness may be due directly to not using the CPAP. When you skip it, the carbon dioxide builds up i your blood at night instead of being exhausted through your lungs. That is a waste material in the body which leads to the daytime sleepiness, tiredness, etc. Make yourself use the CPAP and I think you will see a big change. Good luck to you!
My problem is finding some more modern equpment for my husband who is "clinging" to his machine which is a Noah's Ark of about 13 year's old!
I feel for you. We women seem to be the care takers and take on all of it, always! We eed all the help we can get.
Be well!
dorothy

Thanks for the pep talk - sometimes you just need to know that your not the only one facing all of life's issues. I've been using the machine a lot more and yes it does help. I guess my biggest problem is when I wake up during the night that I get up- usually to go to the bathroom and when I get back into bed, I just don't put it on. So I would guess that I'm using it about 4-5 hours a night. But I know that I should just put it back on again.

What medication,if any, would anyone recommend for daytime exhaustion?