How does it feel when waking up with untreated sleep apnea?

Posted by robertwills @robertwills, Mar 12 9:07am

Like when you have to wake up at a certain time in the morning and you had 8 hours of sleep? Is it had to wake up? Do you feel lousy? Do you feel much worse than when you believe you didn't have sleep apnea? An hour later are you able to go back to sleep?

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dlydailyhope | @dlydailyhope | Mar 13 7:24am

@robertwills
Before I had a sleep study, I would wake up after “sleeping” 8-9 hours and feel like I didn’t sleep at all. I had daily headaches and could go back to sleep after getting my son off to school. I was extremely lethargic and exhausted throughout the day and had a hard time concentrating for work. No energy to exercise or get much done. Headaches went away once diagnosed with sleep apnea and regularly using cpap machine. It took a while to get used to the cpap so you need to be patient to get the right mask and adjustments.

I also needed to treat major depression and chronic pain to improve symptoms and quality of life.

gloaming | @gloaming | Mar 13 12:34pm

https://www.apneaboard.com/forums/Thread-Lower-AHI-but-feel-awful
The above is an example of but one of many hundreds of threads dealing with the problems attendant with PAP therapy, especially for people who are new to it, but also to those who get a new machine, a new prescription, and the adjustments that they struggle with. This cite above comes from apneaboard.com forums.