Doesn't anyone else FEEL apnea in their SLEEP?

[Sleepster]

Does your laying down difficulty get relieved immediately with the cpap?

Different people will report different answers to questions like this. Some people strap on a CPAP machine for the first time and sleep like a baby, waking up feeling more refreshed than they have in decades. Others will refuse to tolerate the CPAP machine for more than a few minutes and never use it again. Most of us are somewhere in between.

It took a few weeks for me to start seeing some of these symptoms abate, and a few years for others to fully resolve. Meanwhile, though, every time you use the machine you reduce the long term risks associated with heart disease and stroke, and you enjoy life more because you are at least getting some deep sleep as opposed to none.

Do you have to put it on a higher setting in order for it to make a difference?

That's a question that the titration is designed to answer. A CPAP machine that auto-adjusts the pressure can also be used to answer this question.

[Mosquitobait]

My thoughts are if you think you might have sleep apnea, get an autoset machine from Craigslist and try it out.  If you feel more awake after using it for a week or so, walla, you have solved your problem. If you do not feel more awake, and your AHI is low, then you need to look to other causes for your lack of energy.   Presumably, you've already had a workup by your primary to check for obvious things like low iron and stuff.

[Broomstick]

The results from my sleep study are in. I'd like to start a new thread for it because it's a completely different discussion now.