I've logged in over 500 hours on my new bipap with the leak rate at zero most nights and AHI below 2. Before therapy the AHI was 96 an hour. There has been improvement since starting therapy approx 3 years ago but I'm still having problems. Mostly memory and mood but I never was really that "sleepy" before therapy.
On most nights I have the sensation that I'm not really sleeping, like I'm aware that I'm lying there with the mask on. I do dream, some nights I remember many dreams but they always have some element of anxiety to them. I saw a Nova program about dreams and they found that some people do not go into all the stages of rem. They don't get the restorative kind of rem. The Zeo would help me know if I'm right about waking up so much. It's a big price tag to put out for something I don't know would help. I'd spend the money if I knew it could help the docs figure out what is going on. They want me to be evaluated for depression, and that's okay but, I just don't think that's it. My life's good right now but I have no energy. The glass is always half full.
I did something that was shocking to me that tops some of the other forgetful things I have done. I was getting the house ready for a birthday slumber party for the 17yr old but I also needed to get the little one to another party for a friend. I stopped getting ready for the one at home and took the little one 1/2 hour away to this other party, well, there was no party. It was the following weekend. That's not so strange right? The strange thing is as soon as I got there I remembered that it was next weekend and I remembered thinking "Good it's not on the same weekend.", and it was written on the calendar on the right day. What the heck!!
I originally wrote this as a response to the link about the Zeo but thought it would be better put out as a post on it's own.
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