Sleep Apnea, Sleep Disorders, CPAP, BiPAP - Help Me Breath

I was unaware of this. Good, now I have something to do at work today! My AHI is up to 10 but my AI is still down around 1.8. I need to get back over to cpaptalk to figure this out. As far as I understand, the AHI is all events (snoring, etc) and the AI is apneas, so this would be the one I want to keep low.

Dmitriy Kruglyak (creator of trusted.md) asked me in December to listen to a webinar put out by the drug company Cephalon on their sleep apnea / narcolepsy drug, Provigil, and to blog about it. As you can see, I’m a little behind in my commitments! Obstructive sleep apnea is a condition that affects 18 million Americans, and is linked to heart disease, congestive heart failure, stroke, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, depression, liver disease, not to mention various cognitive impairments, so beyond the obvious problems of fatigue and inability to function well due to lack of sleep, sleep apnea has far-reaching health consequences. Good sleep is one of the foundational health principles of everything – one simply CANNOT be healthy without adequate sleep.

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Im not in the best of moods lately. It’s not just the BiPAP machine and the sleep apnea. Other things are going on as well. I did end up getting the hybrid mask which is interesting, it has nose pillows and a mask that goes over my mouth. The problem is that I am at such a high setting that if I open my mouth its like sticking my head out a car window, it sucks. My sinuses have been starting to burn, last night I didnt use the machine at all, I really just needed to sleep. Other ailments have been coming back, my restless leg thing for one. Last night I woke up around 1 am and my legs and arms were on fire. The only way to deal with that is a really hot bath. I ran a bath, and popped another ambien, the bath was nice but my bathtub in my new place is small. My last apartment had a 2 person jacuzzi with nice jets. I think I am just over stressed about so many thing and its all surfacing. My financial trouble, relationship issues, things from my past. I started crying at work a few times yesterday, totally out of the blue, it was really weird. I have also be looking around the web, myspace, etc for people I used to know. Hopefully this spell will pass. I really need to get some things together in my life, its starting to pile up and this is typically when I run and hide. Valentines day is coming up, I don’t have any money for it, which sucks. I did find this coupon online for Victorias secret, its worth checking out.