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From: Karen C. on 27 Jul 2008 15:22
It's been awhile since I checked in, so I thought I'd give an
update.

I've been on BiPAP therapy for about 1-3/4 years. I've just had
my third bump in pressures, now up to 12/8. I am doing MUCH
better than when I first posted to this group when I first was
diagnosed and started therapy.

DH was diagnosed within a month after I was, and he sports a CPAP
every night. We DO NOT miss his loud snoring <g>. He had
trouble keeping his mask on during the first few weeks, but I'd
hear him take it off every time he did so and made him put it
back on. He hasn't had any problem with that since that time.

Just before Christmas, our 17 y.o. DD began complaining of waking
during the night. The kid across the street had a loud muffler
on his car, and he'd wake her every morning, an hour before she
had to get up to go to school. She wasn't able to go back to
sleep, and she'd be royally ticked off. She also was having
trouble going to sleep at night.

All this sounded way too familiar to me, as that's pretty much
how I had been my whole life, before therapy. That being the
case, I took DD to our sleep doc. He took a look at her throat
and said she had the small throat structure and passages like I
do, so he ordered a sleep study. Not surprising, she has OSA
too.

I thought she'd throw a fit over having to have a CPAP, but she
hasn't. The only problem she's had with it is she's been taking
her mask off during the night and not realizing it. Sometimes
she'd awaken and realize it was off and put it back on, and
sometimes we'd hear it blowing if we went down the hall during
the night. She went back for her six-weeks' checkup a week ago,
and she got a bump in pressure. So far, she's only taken the
mask off once, so I think we're making good progress.

That's pretty much the size of it. All three of us wouldn't
dream of trying to sleep without our xPAPs. (I know, from having
to do without mine for one weekend, that I am NOT ABLE to sleep
without the thing.) It's definitely worth it!

Karen C.


From: tension_on_the_wire on 14 Aug 2008 02:20
On Jul 27, 12:22 pm, "Karen C." <karenscri...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> It's been awhile since I checked in, so I thought I'd give an
> update.
>
> I've been on BiPAP therapy for about 1-3/4 years.  I've just had
> my third bump in pressures, now up to 12/8.  I am doing MUCH
> better than when I first posted to this group when I first was
> diagnosed and started therapy.
>
> DH was diagnosed within a month after I was, and he sports a CPAP
> every night.  We DO NOT miss his loud snoring <g>.  He had
> trouble keeping his mask on during the first few weeks, but I'd
> hear him take it off every time he did so and made him put it
> back on.  He hasn't had any problem with that since that time.
>
> Just before Christmas, our 17 y.o. DD began complaining of waking
> during the night.  The kid across the street had a loud muffler
> on his car, and he'd wake her every morning, an hour before she
> had to get up to go to school.  She wasn't able to go back to
> sleep, and she'd be royally ticked off.  She also was having
> trouble going to sleep at night.
>
> All this sounded way too familiar to me, as that's pretty much
> how I had been my whole life, before therapy.  That being the
> case, I took DD to our sleep doc.  He took a look at her throat
> and said she had the small throat structure and passages like I
> do, so he ordered a sleep study.  Not surprising, she has OSA
> too.
>
> I thought she'd throw a fit over having to have a CPAP, but she
> hasn't.  The only problem she's had with it is she's been taking
> her mask off during the night and not realizing it.  Sometimes
> she'd awaken and realize it was off and put it back on, and
> sometimes we'd hear it blowing if we went down the hall during
> the night.  She went back for her six-weeks' checkup a week ago,
> and she got a bump in pressure.  So far, she's only taken the
> mask off once, so I think we're making good progress.
>
> That's pretty much the size of it.  All three of us wouldn't
> dream of trying to sleep without our xPAPs.  (I know, from having
> to do without mine for one weekend, that I am NOT ABLE to sleep
> without the thing.)  It's definitely worth it!
>
> Karen C.

Good catch on your 17 year old daughter. Perhaps you've saved her
years of time to accrue complications.

--tension
From: Karen C. on 15 Aug 2008 09:51

"tension_on_the_wire" <tension_at_home(a)yahoo.com> wrote in
message
news:9d4a0f03-1607-44b9-8172-53754394f1c8(a)q5g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> Good catch on your 17 year old daughter. Perhaps you've saved
> her
years of time to accrue complications.>

Thanks! I sure hope so! Had it not been for the fact that she
was developing some of those all-too-familiar symptoms I've
experienced for most (if not all) of my life, I'd have brushed
her off.

She's been on the CPAP for about three months now. She told me,
last week, she can tell a difference in the way she feels,
especially after she got a bump in pressure a few weeks ago. I'd
already figured it was helping, though, since she hasn't been
nearly as cranky during the day <g>.

Thanks!

Karen C.


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