So I’m late 30’s. Was active military for a while and just could not deal with early mornings anymore and left. Fast forward 18 months or so after getting out and my wife has been going to the dr for sleep issues and they did a stay at home sleep study. She was casually complaining about my snoring and she caused her dr to want to talk to me. I had at this point woken up twice in my recent life gasping for air like someone knocked the wind out of me. I had just attributed it to indigestion. The dr put in two orders for the sleep study and sent my wife home with them. We did the test and I have a SEVERE case of sleep apnea. They give me a cpap machine and I tried it like 4-5 times and was like “nope! Can’t sleep with this on my mouth gets too dry and keeps falling off” so inboxed it up and put it in my closet for almost two years! As we move forward from this point in the past my sleep was great. I fall asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow and don’t wake up for 10+ hours. Ahh sleep. However, I fall asleep at work, on my couch eating lunch, while playing games with my wife and even once at a stop sign! I pulled my cpap back out because I feel like crap. I can’t get enough sleep I always want more. I just forced my self to put it on every night and eventually it says on and I deal with the dry mouth. I don’t feel any different but I no longer fall asleep at random. I’m writing this because for the last two days I have waken up BEFORE MY ALARM BY SEVERAL HOURS and I’m not tired. I went to bed around 9:30 watched 90 min of a movie and rolled over and FORCED my self to sleep. I woke up two days in a row before now before my alarm. Yesterday I just forced my self back to sleep but today I got up it was 5:30! I should be a mess right now but honestly I’m not tired at all. When they gave me my cpap system they kept telling me “ oh you will feel so much better bla bla bla” used it and nothing and was like meh not better but not worse and at least I’m not tired in the middle of the day. Something plateaued in my body because I really do feel better. I just put on a beanie, I use a full face mask and ensure I have no leaks, I added a second hose so it’s long enough for me to roll over and have taught myself how to sleep with my mouth closed. Any ways that’s how I finally overcame a major issue I didn’t know I have until my wife complained about her husband to the right people.
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