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Cpap and getting better sleep: What's your experience?
Sleep Health | Last Active: Sep 15, 2022 | Replies (356)Comment receiving replies
@lisalucier-Glad to hear things are going well! I agree, cuddling doesn't work well with the mask on, but we always make time to cuddle a bit before I dawn my mask and early in the morning when neither of us want to get out of bed in the darkness.
Have you come up with any ideas to lessen the effect on the C-pap, etc. on the dresser as far as the esthetics of the room?
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Good idea to agree that we will save some cuddling time sans mask before the mask goes on and when we wake up, @thankful.
Well, I decided that what @cece55 said certainly applied in our case, as far as the aesthetics and the room not looking like we were in a hospital. My husband actually has an antique trunk for his nightstand, which is big enough that with it being closed (with the water tank out during the day on a certain spot on our large bathroom counter) and the tubing piled nicely on top (versus slung over the bedpost, as it was originally), it doesn't look so much like a hospital room. We found a place in a tub containing various cleaning supplies in a bathroom vanity cabinet to store the jug of distilled water and a place in our shower for the bottle of baby shampoo for the weekly major clean of the equipment.
My husband is an engineer (software) and all about function (not so much into aesthetics, but understands that I am), so we had to work together on this.
I also decided to really take to heart what you said, @johnhans, about preventing a stroke or heart attack with the CPAP (and its accompanying equipment) and that that is what really matters here.
Does everyone seem to require a travel CPAP? Just realized we don't have one and are going on a trip in under 2 weeks.