Skip to main content

Sleep Apnea - CPAP machine

Alright so I was diagnosed with sleep apnea and about a week after my sleep study follow up appointment I got a call from the home health place to be able to schedule my appointment to pick up my CPAP and learn how to use it. 

I actually took this picture right at the appointment. The person that was teaching me to use it had to leave the room to get my head "gear" and mask to fit my face. I'm a size medium face apparently. 

Now I was excited going into this appointment. I was excited to get a full good nights sleep. 

Now after using my CPAP machine for the last week or so, I'm so thankful for having been diagnosed and receiving my CPAP machine.  

This Picture was me the first morning waking up with my CPAP on. The first morning I felt good, but still tired. I woke myself up a few times because I had dreams about being a firefighter (as I am one and started doing that when I was 14.) So the mask on my face apparently triggered something in my brain. My partner on the other hand said she didn't sleep hardly at all because she was scared I was going to suffocate or get the hose wrapped around my neck, and she couldn't hear me snoring at all. 

Honestly the hose is really movable so if you move alot in your sleep have no fear it will move with you! Its also 6ft long! I had soooo many questions about the CPAP machine and really when I started using it all my questions kind of answered themselves. 

After a week of using the machine every single night I am thankful, still! I am also thankful to my partner, that if I fall asleep cuddling on her shoulder she will wake me up to... "HEYYY Put your mask on." 

I am feeling much more rested and have energy throughout the day. Now the winter blues still got me strong but I am feeling better physically with getting the sleep that I need. 

I will do another post in a month or so with an update on how I am doing nightly with my CPAP and some other fun updates with it!! 

As always if you have any questions what so ever, message, email or comment!! 

Popular posts from this blog

Sleep Study Results

This morning I found out my sleep study results.  Honestly going into this appointment I was really nervous. The hardest part was over, the actual sleep study, but finding out the results from a test is kind of always nerve racking.  So I got called in and sat in a room and waited for the PA. She was actually really, really nice and her name was Jennifer as well so easy to remember.  She was like let me know you your test results, it was a lot of charts. I felt weird asking to take a picture of them so I will show you my fit bit tracking of my sleep because it shows the same thing on a much more dumbed down level, as it doesn't track a quarter of the amount that a sleep study does.  The first chart, is the one from January 9th- the night of my sleep study.  All of red lines are were I am "waking up" but really those are were I am gasping myself awake when I start breathing again.  The Chart below, is from the other nig...

Meeting the Nutritionist...

Nutritionist Appointments are hard... Group Appointments are awkward! Before I could meet with my nutritionist 1:1 I had to go to a group seminar that lasted about 2.5 hours... What a drag! The group was filled with some interesting people to say the least all working on being qualified or making the decision if bariatric surgery was right for them.  My nutritionist asked a lot of questions and went over a lot of things during the seminar. But leaving I was ready to leave.. I knew what I had to do for the next month after leaving that group. I needed to track every single thing I ate for the next month and not gain any weight.. But eat better, low carbs, low sugar, no drinking anything within 30 minutes of eating! Essentially the gastric bypass diet once completely healed.  Before my seminar I had my abdominal ultrasound.. Which took just about an hour and a half.. When I got the results I kind of laughed... This may be TMI but I needed to Fart the whole tim...