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What is more important: treating sleep apnea or insomnia?
Sleep Health | Last Active: May 18 10:08am | Replies (27)Comment receiving replies
Am I to understand that you sleep with the CPAP for two good hours and then cannot sleep for the rest of the night with it on? If that is the case, then take it off and finish the night without it. That's what I do. I figure half a loaf is better...
Well, you know. I find I get better as I go along at keeping the CPAP on for longer stretches.
If your situation is that after two hours of CPAP and you remove it you can't sleep, that is something I don't relate to. I can always get back to sleep after removing the device.
Either way, good luck. Adjusting to CPAP is not easy. So far, I think I am benefitting from using it.
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Yes, I fall asleep with the bipap okay but not fond of the inhale/exhale issue. Sleep well about 1-2.5 hours. Wake up refreshed and can't fall back to sleep with bipap still on. But if I take it off, I can fall back to sleep but it isn't generally the best sleep, tossing and turning a lot, waking up during that part of the night. Wake up in the morning feeling the bed magnet holding me down. Not at all refreshed and ready for the day. Not that I sleep well with no bipap lol. But overall, I feel more able to get up in the morning. Maybe it is good to get what I can out of the bipap and then just take it off when I wake and go back to sleep without it?