Hi, everyone, I'll be getting my hands on my device assisted polisomnography test in probably 1-2 days, which is very likely to show what kind of device I need (It's complicated but I can explain this bit if you're curious in the comments). I wanna ask some stuff to you guys:

I've been suffering from OCD, depression, anxiety and social anxiety for a long time. All of these started probably before sleep apnea (I suspect sleep apnea developed somewhere between ages 18-20 and I'm currently 23 right now, but I've been obese since 2nd grade primary school so maybe I had sleep apnea since more than a decade, who knows). What I wanna ask is, can sleep apnea possibly make OCD, depression, anxiety and social anxiety worse? I found limited medical evidence in researches but I saw many posts about the disorders I listed in which people said they saw noticeable improvements in themselves, so I wanted to ask it myself here to hear it first-hand as well.

I also unfortunately can't give you a clue about how stuff felt before and after the sleep apnea starting point since the past feels too "in-evaluate-able" despite remembering it clearly. I know sleep apnea might or might not help me with the problems I listed depending on many variables.

Things might have worsened without me realizing after having sleep apnea, and addressing it can help me reduce them back to non-sleep-apnea days and with the help of my current antidepressants, things may finally feel "good", things may get even better than that I might need less or no meds or I can be stuck like that despite sleep apnea and antidepressant treatment. I just wanna know if there can be a decent or good outcome too, you know. I just don't wanna feel tired, hazy, heavy anymore; I want to be able to enjoy stuff without needing to put insane mental effort (movies, games, anime, tv shows, manga), I don't wanna stress ridiculously in social situations.

Forgot the last but probably very important bit so just writing it here: my AHI in the first test without a breathing device was 92.1

Thanks for reading and also thanks for replying if you do

i’m really scared and physically struggling to be living with untreated sleep apnea and i wanna know how treatment has made peoples symptoms better.

earlier in the year an endocrinologist suspected i have sleep apnea, and bc of my health worsening and my caretaker not really pushing me towards the direction of having appointments due to me falling so much, i never went back. became housebound and couldn’t get bloodwork done bc im a fall risk and nurses are expensive. my symptoms are getting worse, and im on medication like seroquel that can make sleep apnea worse. i went up on it recently bc i can barely sleep anymore. now i wake up gasping for air which is a symptom that actually faded when i went down on the seroquel in the past. i wake up with pressure & swelling in my hands/fingers, face and lips, and feet ankles legs. its literally hard to type on my phone bc my fingers feel like rubber. they’re also shiny??? which is something i’ve noticed. i lucid dream almost every night unintentionally. now in my dreams, i struggle to breathe which i can tell i am physically feeling. but since it’s not a lucid dream im in control of i cant wake myself up, its torture. i have violent lucid nightmares as well, i just had one and im actually traumatized. i’m in the hospital all the time, i bring up almost all the things ive seen specialists for but it’s never enough to be admitted and taken seriously. when i have been admitted, i ended up being told to seek therapy to deal with my fibro pain. i also have to be retested for lupus as my flare up symptoms are worsening. i feel like im in hell every moment of the day and this is just one tiny part of my daily symptoms. i don’t know how this can ever get better and every time i fall asleep i get scared im gonna die in my sleep. this is common for people on seroquel but for me it feels more certain. and psychologically im not all there anymore.

They said the lab was made to look like a hotel room. Am I gonna be able to take my sleep meds? I won’t sleep if I can’t.

Hi guys, whats the best setup for someone with chronic nasal congestion. Full-Face Mask with an Auto-CPAP (APAP) or not? F30i or F20...

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For reference, I'm 25M, 6'0" 186 lbs., 15-16% BF, with a 17" neck. Not sure what else is useful. I attached a list of symptoms in a document as well. Broadly, I have a moderate sleep apnea diagnosis (15.2 AHI, 17.3), and no insomnia diagnosis. I had an in-lab sleep study last Tuesday night, where I only slept 2.5 hours due to a BiPAP titration after a wakeup, where I couldn't fall back asleep.

Beyond this, I have been utterly confounded by a recent development since March of this year, where my sleep duration has steadily declined from 7 hours and 19 minutes per day to 6 hours and 28 minutes this October. Lately, nights were quite bad, at 4.5-6.5 hours, and the two medications I started last week have seemed to help, albeit with massive drowsiness during the day.

Importantly, nobody seems to know why this is going on. My theory is that since I came back from a shoulder surgery last year and started lifting again, my rapid muscle gain literally demanded too much oxygen for my underlying SDB to handle, so I ended up getting flow limitations and apneas/hypopneas/RERAs that woke me up. I have the best physique of my life, and the worst sleep.

I've tried so much to fix it too, as the document shows. I really don't think switching to BiPAP or ASV really matters all that much, and I don't think MAD is good for me because I have jaw clicking. I really want to avoid jaw surgery, and my palate is a normal width, so expansion isn't indicated. In the meantime, I am having a horrid QOL. My brain is fried, I am getting ED because of the SDB that is killing my chances of relationships, I am so tired all the time, I am damn near anhedonic because of it, and I just have no real desire to do much of anything anymore. Are there any actual, unconventional solutions that I can try that aren't insanely expensive or invasive?

I’ve had central sleep apnea here and there but nothing like what I’m experiencing now. I got the flu a week ago and that’s when this started. It’s so severe I stop breathing every single stop I drift off and haven’t slept in a week. I went to ER for the flu and told them about this but they didn’t care. I’m so scared. Anyone else have it this severe? And if so what helped you? I’m so confused on why I got it like this from the flu?

Hi everyone,

CPAP hasn't worked for me after several masks.

Anyone switched to a custom MAD?

I've been on CPAP for a while and tried a few different masks, but I just can't use it consistently.

My doctor recommended a custom mandibular advancement device, which I'm leaning towards since I already wear a night guard for grinding.

For anyone who's made the switch, did it actually help? How long did it take to get used to, and did you have jaw soreness at first?

The quote I got is about $3,400 CAD, and my insurance won't cover it since it already paid for my CPAP.

I've started a GoFundMe to help with the cost as i feel wearing this as well as my cpap mask will help.

Thanks

Mike

So a little background I'm 24 6'1" 193lbs I'd say I'm pretty healthy for the most part I lift weights 4x a week I don't smoke or drink anymore. I've been struggling with sleep for years. I had issues with sleeping as a teen and took trazodone for a few years to help (don't take any medication anymore or want to). I'd say for about 7ish years I've had terrible snoring I would stop breathing/gasp for air and I wake up usually 5-6 times a night and only sleep for maybe 1-2 hours at a time. I finally took an at home sleep study in January and have mild to moderate sleep apnea with an AHI of 8.9. I bought an APAP machine and used it for about 2 months with zero difference besides feeling somewhat worse in the morning. A lot of nights it's hard to breathe because my nose feels plugged up. I just recently went to see and ENT and he mentioned I have very large tonsils and enlarged turbinates and told me to try out Afrin to "mimic" the turbinate reduction which did help with breathing but didn't affect my sleep at all. I'm going to see another ENT who specializes in sleep medicine and get another opinion on what I should do. After looking into it I feel that it possibly might be my large tonsils that are causing the SA or the main factor in it and hopefully having them removed could fix it or at the very least make APAP more beneficial. Any advice is greatly appreciated thanks!

I've had a cpap for a few months and use the full face mask. The front vent(?)is blowing like a damn hairdryer instead of the gentle silent blowing I have known from the beginning. I have gone through all the settings and changed the filter and even the hose. Mask is seated properly. The amount of hurricane level wind coming through is not just loud as fuck but it also makes it almost impossible to exhale. Any help is GREATLY appreciated!

I'm relatively new to CPAP, bee on it since July. I started with a rented Resmed Cpap and have now switched to a Philips Apap which I find a lot better. The one down side is that I now have the dreamwear nasal cushions which are causing soreness in my septum, which is painful enough to disturb my sleep. While looking for a solution the main answer seems to be adjusting the tightness of the mask. I did notice that a lot of people mention vaseline, but I have been told that vaseline can damage the silicon and that a water based saline cream is recommended. Any other advise ?

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Ever since getting sleep apnea it has been impossible to sleep. I wake up very frequently sometimes every 5 minutes. I’ve gotten to the point now where i am getting less than 3 hours of sleep a night. My dry mouth is so bad that I’ve stopped caring about sleeping for 8 hours a day in order to protect my dental health. I go to bed for 6 hours everyday and almost half of that is spent awake tossing and turning and the other half is in light rem sleep experiencing nightmares. I’m severely fatigued and no matter what i cannot take naps, and i cannot sleep for a healthy amount of time. I’m severely sleep deprived to the point where my body is pumping cortisol just to give me some energy since I can no longer hope on getting it from rest. Went to my doctor recently and was told to come back in a month for diagnosis. Then when i get diagnosed with sleep apnea they will probably happily say that it will take a month or longer for the cpap to arrive. At this point im not sure if I’ll live to see the morning where my cpap arrives. They are having me wait for so long when my sleep is rapidly deteriorating by the week. seriously hate the state of medical where i’m from. It’s like no matter the health concern you must wait a month or longer before a diagnosis.

I'm a 34M with a recessed lower jaw (Class II Div 2) and struggle with daytime sleepiness, brain fog, low energy and poor focus.

My recessed jaw and facial profile aren't a huge issue for me. I'm pretty happy with how I look and wouldn't consider my case extreme.

My home sleep study showed an AHI of 1.4, a lowest oxygen level of 93%, and an Epworth score of 10. It was considered normal, but the report said my daytime sleepiness seemed out of proportion.

Has anyone with similar symptoms or a recessed jaw had an in-lab sleep study that found something the home test missed?

Did further testing or jaw surgery make a noticeable difference to your energy and concentration?

I'm an early 20s m, not obese, not smoking or drinking. I have sleep apnea and even daytime breathing difficulty and stridor.

The DISE found tongue base collapse, enlarged lingual tonsils and epiglottis collapse. They also said the epiglottis is thin.

I tried CPAP but I can't fall asleep with it at all, even the lowest setting. Jaw surgery is out of the question - my jaw is too forward and I already did lateral expansion. I'll most likely get ENT surgeries.

i used to share a room with my older sister (at time med student, now doctor) and she always suspected i had sleep apnea, I've also always had hypersomnolense during the day, and sometimes i wake up out of breath, or even from it. i haven't been able to seek a diagnoses yet but i plan on doing it soon

I've heard several explanations for these lines. like needing glasses from childhood (i started wearing glasses at 5) or having a high prescription (mine is negative 11, so thick heavy lenses). also heard of being caused by allergies or asthma, but i don't have those. since those are problems related to sinuses i thought maybe sleep apnea could be related ? might be a dumb question idk, I've just always wondered what's the cause. i don't really have them in baby pictures.

Yesterday I had my surgery for deviated septum and enlarged turbinates. I also had the DISE procedure at the same time.

All together it took about an hour for my surgery. Everything went well. I was given prescriptions for pain meds, a stool softener and oral and topical antibiotics. I was told to use a nasal mist 3-4 times a day to help and ice if needed for up to 15 minutes at a time. I can’t sneeze or blow my nose for a week. Not too much pain, just a little around the nostrils and a headache (but I get those most days so not out of the ordinary). I was happy that I could still breathe through my nose some when I woke up from surgery, but since then I feel like I have less ability to breathe through my nose due to bleeding, congestion, etc I assume. I went home from surgery with this gauze under my nose to catch bleeding. I had to change it a few times yesterday and once overnight, but when I woke up this morning I had stopped bleeding. I was very happy about that. Seems like next few days won’t be too bad. I feel back to normal besides congestion and less ability to breathe through my nose. Looking forward to post op Tuesday morning when splints will be removed.

I didn’t talk to my doctor after surgery, but I know he said based on DISE that I could qualify for Inspire if I wanted to do that. I doubt I’ll do that though just due to risks of surgery, MRI restrictions, possibility of it not fixing sleep apnea, etc. Probably will just keep trying with CPAP to see if it’s easier or helps with symptoms more now. Later next week I can go back to using CPAP with my full face mask. In about a month I can try out a nasal mask or pillow.