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A night without cpap...
Last night I had an unintentional half night without cpap. I woke at about 3:15 this morning to find that my mask straps had come undone and was no on my face. A very rude awakening, like the old days with untreated apnoea.
I had my oximiter running last night, which is the first time I've had it running on a night where I've had a nasty event, and this is the first full on apnoea event I've had for over two years, I'd forgotten what it was like.
However hard CPAP may be to get used to and however inconvenient it can be, it beats the terror of waking up in a full andrenaline fuelled panic (I thought I was having a heart attack!) and the disorientation of coming from a deep sleep to a full awake in one big snorting jump.
Sats dropped to 80. Pulse spiked in the 130s. Getting back to sleep took an hour.
So make sure you use your machine! I feel terrible this morning. Looking forward to a better night tonight.
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Permalink Reply by Kath Hope on
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Yes, we only need one bad night as a sharp reminder of what we used to feel like before CPAP
I find that on the rare occasions when things like this happen, I feel worse than I used to feel before I was diagnosed. This I put down to the fact that I'd got used to living in a tired exhausted state and thought it was 'normal,' whereas I'm not used to feeling like that anymore - thank goodness!Hope you catch up tonight, and bet you go early!
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Permalink Reply by Terry Vella on
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symmit, I know how you feel, even after two years of CPAP, I can still pull mine off in the middle of the night sometimes and fall back to sleep without it on then feel foggy and groggy the next day and I'm one that loves CPAP. I fnd it harder now because we are in the summer months in Australia and it stays very hot at night, some nights it can stay up around 30c through out the night and my bedroom is upstairs so is even hotter so I would love your cold weather. Kath and I have spoken before about maybe swapping for a while but, not sure if she would even like some of our 45c day,s at the moment. In some parts of central Australia it is hitting 50c during the day. Just remember each night is a new night and each night is different.
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Believe me I would. There's nothing I like better than the sweat dripping from the sun and downing an ice cold coca cola
Joking apart, how do you cope on a night in that heat? I had a lady on one of the Facebook Groups from Oz asking about this the other day.
Terry Vella said:......Kath and I have spoken before about maybe swapping for a while but, not sure if she would even like some of our 45c day,s at the moment. In some parts of central Australia it is hitting 50c during the day. Just remember each night is a new night and each night is different.
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Kath, I find it difficult, I cool down the room as much as possible with the air conditioner before going to bed, I don't like leaving it on overnight, then it normally warms up again in a couple of hours. I run a fan in the room but that just circulates warm air. I also turn the humidifer down a few degrees and it pumps out colder air, I know my sister has found this helpful. So I don't really have an answer. In our state, we don't normally have lots of hot days together so we have a bit of a break. In Western Australia, they have had a week or more of over 40c every day during the day and mid to high 20's at night.
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Thanks Terry. She's in Perth and I'll pass you info on. Must be hard at night in the heat. I remember once in Spain when we had no air conditioning..... I kept pulling out my hose from the mask and using it to blow air over me to cool down. It's probably the only time hubby wished he was on CPAP too lol.
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She would be feeling it then, Perth which is the capital of Western Australia has been feeling it, she would have air conditioning so that is probably about her best solution, have a good nights sleep, it's a cool 24c here today after a 39c yesterday so I'm getting some relief over then next couple of days.
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Permalink Reply by symmit on
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Terry, what is e humidity like with the heat over there? Over here last year we had a couple of hot days and because homes are built to retain heat we couldnt cool the room, so i filled my humidifier with ice cubes for a few nights and set it to zero!.
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symmit, because Australia is so large, different states have different temperautres and humidity ranges, where I live in Melbourne the temperature can be the same as other parts of the country but humidity vastly different, for example our humidity is around 45%-55% which is a dry heat but in Queensland which is in the north of Australia it can be 80-90% which is a wet heat. I remember when I was in Queensland once, I had a shower, got ready for work, walked out of the motel and felt like I had just got out of the shower again. The ice sounds like an idea, but I use a Resmed Autoset, it has the 0-3 temperature settings but is also temperature controlled so I can change the temprature range from anywhere between 15c to 30c, in summer I have the temperature lower and higher in winter.
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