Been looking through this forum as well as r/cpap for too long now. 31, and have been suffering from extreme exhaustion for quite some time, which I always attributed to a heavy work load. The problem with that is, while I do work a lot, its not down in the mines... Severe lack of focus and drive in the afternoon hours, as well as an inability to finish a movie, falling asleep as soon as I board a plane, you name it. Thankfully as I spend a lot on the road, that at least I enjoy and stay focused.
Long story short, having tried the last resort of improving my Vit-D deficiency and not seeing significant results, I went for a sleep study 3 days ago. Ill preface this by saying that I'm an early riser naturally, around 6am +/-, I generally am in bed for 7ish hours, but my watch has been seeing desats and wakening regularly.
The study was awful, for the first time in years I couldn't fall asleep, and kept fully waking up, for over half an hour each. Finally managed to hit some deep sleep past 4am. In that period, the AHI was 28, although the overall average was 8.2 during the study.
The doctor prescribed CPAP with pressure 5-15 on the ResMed 10, due to the symptoms and the study, and I picked up the machine today.
Honestly, weird feeling, not too happy to be needing a machine, but at the same time being so so hopeful that a plethora of issues that are linked to bad sleep might be solved.
Wanted to take this chance to say hello and thank you all for the advice I've been seeing lately. If anyone has any more tips, would be greatfull!
Cao!