A good sleep

I slept so good last night, the night before last I forgot to put on my CPAP I use respironics machine and a quattro mask I am able to sleep in any position I want even though its what they call a full face mask I use a feather pillow that I can scrunch and bunch in any way I need to make the mask fit and I can even mold it to the side of my mask to stop those pesky leaks ...

Peas and Carrots

I honestly love that me and Randy do every thing together...But I do NOT love it when he has to outdo me LOL....... Turns out his sleep apnea is worse than mine, can you believe that ...I stop breathing and average of 88 times and hour that's call my AHI ... Randy or maybe who I should call Mr. Show off has a AHI of 104 times an hour ...Yeah while I have been laying around feeling like I was on deaths door for the past 6 months ...Mr.Tough guy has been going to work 10 hours a day staying up playing his game all night on the weekends ...and never complains about being tired... Hows that for a M-A-N !!!!!
In my defense, I never complained about being tired untill I knew I had apnea... My complaints was that I just couldn't breath all summer... Today will be my first day off prenizone since a couple of days before Thanksgiving...I hope my breathing continues to be ok I am still on the advair so time will tell... I know for sure I am not as tired as I was..
This CPAP is AMAZING sure its not wonderful putting it on at night, but the way I feel during the day is so different than any way I have ever felt ...at least I really don't remember feeling this good before, except for the first 2 weeks after I had Mindi. I remember I felt really good at that time, then after we found out she was a very sick little baby the tiredness started but I had many sleepless nights either spending them in hospital waiting rooms or just worrying all night long.So I figured it was just stress, you know...
SOOOOOOOOOOOO fast forward 26 years and here I am, still tired, believing I am just a tired lazy kind of person.... I didn't realize how a person should feel and that tired like I was tired was not normal...
For heaven sakes I was gauging it somewhat against Randy and since he is worse than me I felt like we were normal LOL.. Its hard watching life go by and you think wow I would like to do that, whatever that is, and then your just to tired to follow through...Or not being able to really make plans for anything because you may be to tired when the day comes...
I am really excited to see how Randy feels in a couple of days... I really feel our lives are going to be changing so much for the better and I am excited about it ...
Did I mention that we bought a Motorhome a couple of weeks ago :-) I will post about it soon, we are really looking forward to lots of activities this summer ...

We do things Together :-)

Randy was called in to have his sleep lab testing done early ... So he went in last night........ turns out he has sleep apnea too ..
I thought so...
He will be getting his CPAP machine probably by the end of the week :-)

Lets Just say I am tired ..

I have 19 days till I get my CPAP machine and it can't go quick enough for me... I don't want to wish time away, but goodness gracious I have lived like this for so long (just didn't know it) and I am ready to have sleep, real sleep not my pissy, crappy sleep ...
From my calculations I probably get about 2and1/2 hours of sleep a night. and that has been for years... My NP called me the other day and was pretty amazed at how bad my sleep apnea is and wanted to make sure I was following through and getting treated ...
My plan is to take a sleeping pill the first few nights when I get my machine and tell Randy he will have to get up with Rylan. I want to know what to feels like to be refreshed, for my brain to not feel so foggy, my muscles not to aches, no morning headache,no more chest pain, no shortness of breath and I have been reading that I will drop some of this weight that I have managed to pack on....Please if you pray for anything pray that my doctor has a cancellation and calls me to come in early .........

Sleep Study Numbers

Total sleep time 323
sleep latency 45 minutes
REM sleep latency 380 minutes (don't know how that could be higher than I slept maybe its supposed to be 38 minutes)
436 arousals and 38 awakenings
sleep efficency 59.7%
stage 1 sleep 14.6 %
stage 2 sleep 72.4%
stage 3 sleep 3.7%
REM sleep 3.7%

396 obstructive apneas average duration 19.2 seconds
78 obstructive Hypopneas
some of the obstructive Hypopneas 38.5 seconds
oxygen at its lowest was 76%
and I had a total of 44 minutes with my oxygen below 90%

Here is a link to a page that explains more about what the numbers mean

what it means

I can't wait to get my cpap machine.... I go for another sleep study tomorrow night to test out the cpap machine.. the doctor said I might need to get a bipap machine that kinda breaths in and out for me because of how bad my apnea is ..
No wonder I am so darn tired all the time ...

My echo was normal except I am on the high side of normal for Pulmonary Hypertension my pressure is 34 and above 35 is high ...this can be caused from the sleep apnea ...

I also have another toothache so am going back to the dentist in the morning the side of my face is even swollen ugh...