I slept last night.
Seriously, I REALLY slept well!
You see, last Thursday I went to my doctor and asked him to set me up for a sleep study... I didn't really want to do it, but my wife was insistant. The next available appointment with the sleep disorder/pulmonary specialist was MID-MAY! UNLESS I was available right then, because there had been three different cancellations that very morning.
I went and they set me up for this past Wednesday for an initial sleep study... but because of other cancellations, I ended up going for the initial study on Sunday night and the followup study with the settings adjustment on Tuesday night. And a full diagnosis of sleep apnea. Essentially, I stop breathing at night, so my brain wakes me up so that I take a breath... which keeps me alive, but I never get the deep REM sleep that allows you to rest.
And so yesterday, I ended up with a CPAP machine (continuous positive air pressure). My setting is really high (18 out of a possible 20). When I went to bed, I went to sleep. I slept from about 10:30 to about 3:30 and I feel WONDERFUL!!! (I woke up because the humidifier unit wasn't completely filled when I went to bed and apparently it ran out of water... 'cause I woke at 3:30 with the dryest mouth and dryest throat I've ever had... so much so that it hurt. Gay was still asleep and Josh had crawled in between us sometime during the night, so I just got up when I woke up, rather than trying to turn on a light and learn how to refill the water unit).
I can't tell you how good I feel! I feel alert and have NO headache!! I should have tried sleeping years ago!
Try it!
About Me
- Dayton D. Mix
- Clarks Mills, Pennsylvania, United States
- I'm a husband, a dad, a son, a grandson, a pastor, & now a grandpa, too! Those are the basic hats I wear in my daily life. I was born & raised in rural Pennsylvania couple of miles from the New York border in a small town, Shinglehouse (Potter County). I struggle with my weight & my own quirks just like everyone else does. I became a United Methodist pastor in 1996 and was ordained in 2003. While I'm officially Methodist, I also consider myself a “charismatic” Christian, as well as an “evangelical”, although not everything identified with either of those labels fits me perfectly. I enjoy genealogy but seldom have time to do much with it. I like playing with eBay. I like to read, watch movies, camp, hike, and talk. I LOVE to write, but usually don't worry too much about formal grammar... instead choosing to write as I probably would speak. And even though I can spell pretty well, I'm a lousy typist, so be gracious. I update my blogs as often as I can, but I have a real life that demands me NOT being at the computer all the time... so there are dry spells!
4 comments:
Praise God for sleep. If It weren't for Lunesta I don't know what I would do. I'm happy you got some answers
At least the machine was not Continuous *R*esponse Air Pressure.
Do you have to sleep with this machine every night...like at Annual Conference?
maybe I should try that! I'm still using 2 Tylenol PM every nite. Dorie
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