Frustrating new sleep patterns - the good and the bad

[rebean]

I'm 17 days into an Airsense 11 with Airfit P10 nasal pillows.  65 year old woman who should have gotten CPAP years and years ago.  I don't love my 'nose hose' but it's already lifting some of the deep daytime sleepiness that I've seen coming more and more. And, if I ever let my hubby sleep next to me (he's been sleeping in the middle room due to my very loud snoring) I'll find out if the snoring has abated.  My numbers in the sleep study said 20.2 ahi and the numbers have plummeted - almost immediately - ranging from 3.9 to .8!  

Here's the good/bad issue I'm dealing with - maybe this is just a vent and nothing to be done but wondered if anyone else dealt with this:

as a woman in my early/mid-60s I have had a tendency to get up to pee - always once a night and sometimes twice  it's a chicken and egg issue - are you waking up because you need to pee or are you waking up due to apnea or some minor lower back pain and your body says: oh, you're up - so let's pee!  LOL but that's been the pattern for years:  asleep 12 to 2/215am (and, I believe, very light sleep) and then through to 8am or sometimes one other wakeup per night.  My issue is that I take a long time to fall asleep - I get a bit of anxiety right as I'm falling asleep  I work through this with some breathing exercises and eventually conk.  

Now..a lot for the good, those patterns are changing.  I'm having a longer period of sleep up front (which makes me think I was only ever lightly asleep before).  Now, I am getting up around 3:30 or even 4am to trot to the bathroom.  then I seem to conk hard and wake up around 7:45-8am.  That's giving me around 8 hours sleep which is what I need.  BUT BUT BUT...I've now had 2 nights with a different pattern: Last night I finally fell asleep at 12:30am ...slept a whopping 6 1/2 hours without waking up - but then woke up and couldn't go back to sleep.  Today, I'm a zombie.  Last week, I had one start to finish with 5 1/2 hours =- woke up before 7  - of course it was light coming into my bedroom and that was that.  I felt like I had major jet lag all day with none of the benefits.  and, worse, I can never seem to actually nap.  Never been able to fall asleep in the day.  

I need my 8 hours.  

Vent done.  It's good - 6 1/2 hours of continuous sleep.  But it's bad: only 6 1/2 hours of sleep.  

ack.  ACK.  

Thanks for listening. 

bean

[larrykay]

Welcome to the club of less peeing at night. Yes, it is a benefit. I'm 70, male, and I was getting up 2 -4 times a night, and now only once per night. I sleep about 6.5 hrs per night, but for me that is just fine.

[brmage]

CPAP while I accept can take people time, it's much better than ignoring.

My wife finds new positions while I wear the mask, works for both.