I am doing so much better Nikko, I can't ever see myself sleeping without this machine again. I feel so much better it's like night and day the difference in how good I feel after just two days of decent sleep. Like your friend I had to go to a hospital and be watched and then a sleep specialist wrote a report on the findings which I got in the mail today. I was sleeping at reduced efficiency of 76% which is really bad...
That is probably why I feel so much better with the machine because I am getting the right level of oxygen. I am glad I had my hubby video tape me so I could see for myself just how bad it was, like every other breath I was stopping breathing. Because I had some proof my PCP dr ordered the sleep study done and they did a tituration on the machine, meaning they found what level worked for me so they could preset the machine for me so I didn't have to worry about trying to figure that stuff out, we'd never get it set right if it wasn't for them working the study machine used that night to find the right level of pressure to set mine to.
It was really hard to sleep too, I tried and laid there for forty-five minutes and was completley unable to sleep until I laid on my back. I don't have a number of times I stopped breathing but it was over thirty times in about an hour and fiftteen minutes. Which I bet I was closer to 60 times and the guy just couldn't tell me because they're not allowed to. I am so happy, I hope that it helps with mental states too, I feel a lot like I did when I was a kid, like happy and much healthier, NO PAIN to speak of in the morning until I was up for awhile moving around.
It's truly an amazing thing.

Than ks for caring Nikko.
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