I FARTED in my sleep

Well

Some of you may know that I have sleep apnea.  I have slept with a CPAP for over 6 years.  Before I got the machine I didn't know what apnea was and I was falling asleep driving to work almost every day and I was falling asleep at work.  I would fall asleep mid-sentence talking to my wife, etc - needless to say my apnea was killing me and my life sucked.

Since the machine life was great and normal except for the mask strapped to my face everynight.  Even with the machine I would still snore some and if I ever went anywhere without it I would have a massive headache, slept super poorly, and have a sore throat in the morning to die for.  My first sleep study showed that I stopped breathing 90 times in an hour and that my heart and body were working harder while sleeping than awake.

Well last night I was laying in bed just bored not wanting to sleep but my wife was working on the PC and I was not in the mood tp watch tv so I was just chillin.  After an hour I fell asleep quite by accident and without my CPAP on.  2 hours later my wife woke me and was surprised that I was asleep as I was having no apnea and I didn't snore at all.  So while I haven't had my post op sleep study yet it looks like apnea is going to be off the list of health issues in the near future!

Congrats. You are at about the same point post surgery that I was when I was able to retire my CPAP.
Nick

 Dan, that sounds like great news, and is VERY similar to my apnea story (the biologist who monitored my sleep study said it was the worst case he had ever seen  ) ... 

  However, I would caution you not to ditch the machine entirely yet ..   It is ALWAYS recommended that, after a change of weight cir****tances, another sleep study be conducted to see if there is still any residual apnea (sometimes, it never completely goes away, no matter how much weight is lost   )  ..   If it turns out you still have some apnea, it's better to continue to use the machine on an appropriately-reduced setting, to avoid high blood pressure, ED problems, heart enlargement, or the other "silent" problems that typically accompany apnea .. 

Great stuff.  Why the title of the thread?...

Awesome Dan... and when you fart on the machine, it takes a minute to reach your nose.  I've been contemplating getting another sleep study done myself, I'm not sure when i should do it (i.e., should i wait until i am at goal weight or go sooner).

That's cool Dan!

I hope you waved the sheets when the wife got in bed!

I felt like you did within a couple months of my first RNY and I stopped using the C-PAP machine without a post-op sleep study.  I seemed to have no problems.  But, last June my primary doc found that I have atrial firbrilation.  Sleep apnea may be the cause of it.  So, I'm kind of back using the C-PAP machine.  I say "kind of back"  because I have protrate problems and have to take Flomax.  And, I'm one of the people who gets the side effect from that med of having sniffles.  That's not a problem during the day--I usually carry 2 handkerchiefs.  But, if my nose is running at night, I can't use the C-PAP machine because I have to keep taking it off to blow my nose.  I've explained this to my cardiologist.  I can avoid the Flomax if I would have a minor surgery to correct the protrate problem.  But, the cardiologist won't allow me to have the procedure while I have the atrial fib---and around and around we go.  Bob

Great FART!  I asked about when I should think about another sleep study in anticipation of ditching my CPAP, and the RN said at about 100 pounds.  But the collective here seems to be in the six-month range, so I'll monitor from there.  Has anyone figured out a medically sound way to reduce the pressure "legally" without going through a $3500 sleep study?

 I asked in TT one time if anybody knew how to adjust the setting on a Respironics machine, and someone sure enough pulled up and posted the instructions right there.   

  Problem is, I think my machine was an older model than the one they posted directions for.  It involved pushing the activation and ramping buttons in a certain sequence and/or simultaneously to re-set it.  I couldn't get the procedure to work with my machine, probably b/c my machine had one button more than the one in the instructions (or maybe it was one less  ) .   


    You might try Googling your machine brand name and model #, along with "reset" and "instructions", or some such, and see what it pulls up.   I"m going to try that with mine. 

Congratulations, I had been CPAP dependent since 2005 and since my surgery I have not used it and have not snored. I am amazed that I am able to sleep so well. I am sleeping through the night and actually feel good in the morning.