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Sleep apnea and GCA

Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Oct 19 1:42pm | Replies (13)

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@dadcue

Thank you for your response!! I appreciate you sharing that info about the prednisone causing a fatter face because that has definitely happened to my husband. The prednisone does cause one thing after another after another. I'm so glad you're off of it!! My husband is down from 80 mg to 20 mg and still tapering so I'm hopeful. He's on Actemra to help the taper go more quickly. Fingers crossed!

Thanks also for sharing how you got used to sleeping with the CPAP machine. That is the one thing he's most afraid of thinking it will make him sleep less. I told him it might just have the total opposite affect. I'll share your story with him. It's always good coming from someone else with experience.

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Don't tell him about the vivid dreams I had when I first started wearing CPAP. I had dreams that I was SCUBA diving and someone was messing with my air supply. I used to do some SCUBA diving so I knew that I shouldn't panic. In my dreams, my air supply would return so I didn't actually wake up. I liked the dreams about SCUBA diving again. I don't have those dreams anymore and I miss having them. The reason why I think my sleep apnea is improving is because I don't have those SCUBA diving dreams anymore.