Especially if you have kids and work all day

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    7 days ago

    Same, it quite literally changed my life. I went from sleeping 12h in a row, still waking up groggy and generally being a walking zombie, to being functional after 7h of sleep. Young children still make it hard to get those 7h of consecutive sleep, but this gets better with time.

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      7 days ago

      Hell yeah I had a really poor memory and was always exhausted. I had to nap every day. Now with the CPAP I get 8 hours of sleep and I can remember things that happened weeks ago

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        Do you remember what your AHI (Apnea-Hypopnea Index, number of “events” oper hour) was? Normal is 5 or less, severe sleep apnea is 30 or more - I was at 69 events an hour. Considering an event is either 10 seconds or more without breathing (or a more or less equivalent drop in blood oxygenation due to partial respiratory tract blockage), it means I wasn’t breathing for at least an hour and half every night 😂

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          6 days ago

          Same. My AHI was 59. And during my sleep study there was on event where I didn’t breathe for more than a minute. My oxygen saturation got down to 81, that’s pretty scary. And that was likely happening to me every night for the last 15 years or more.

          Since starting on my CPAP two months ago, my life has massively improved. I wake up feeling great most mornings. I still sometimes feel tired in the afternoons, but not on the level as before.

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      7 days ago

      sleeping 12h in a row

      Ya this will make anyone groggy. There’s your problem.

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        6 days ago

        The point was that I woke up groggy and tired regardless of how much I slept. That was a symptom, not my problem.