Sleep Apnea

[silversurfer 0]

Hi everyone, i have sleep apnea for 5 years, do any of you wake up with headaches. i seem to do this a lot. i use a c pap machine

[imb316 0]

If you have sleep apnea you MUST get help. As someone who does NOT have it but is married to someone who has SEVERE CHRONIC sleap apnea I can tell you treatment is NOT an OPTION but a necessity. My husband resisted getting a sleap study for 2 years until I set it all up. During those two years he was literally a dead man walking. He would be irritated all the time, fell asleap whenever we sat at a meal - even at other peoples house - snap at the kids, if I was not able to drive him it would take him 5 hours to make a one hour trip because he would stop at every rest stop to nap. His ability to work was comromised because he was so forgetfull. I can go on and on but I think you get the idea. At the sleep study, they said he woke up 187 times in ONE hour. The following week he went back to have a study using a machine - so they can figure out what the machine settings should be - when he came home the following morning he said he felt like a new person. Since he has the machine I have become like a policewoman making sure he uses it every night because there is no way I want him to go back to being the tired unhappy person he was. It is so nice to have him back. When I think back to those two years I realize how much he missed out on as well as our family. GOOD LUCK and I hope you get some sleep soon!!!