OK with CPAP

I am doing OK with CPAP machine when I can sleep at least 8-9 hours a night.  On 6 hours (during the week nights), I feel like crap in the morning.  My Praxair salesman said to check the screen during the night for either "error message" or a different number on machine than it's supposed to have.  He wrote it down for me, so I'll have to look it up.

Here is my menu for today:

Breakfast
2 slices 12-grain french toast with real eggs, margarine, & sugar free syrup
3/4 cup concord grape juice
1.5 cups soy milk
1 cup hazelnut coffee
2 cups water

Lunch
1 cup cornmeal mush
3/4 cup soy milk

Dinner
2 pork chops made on griddle
1 baked yam with margarine
1/2 can vegetable soup
1 cup fresh strawberries
2 cups soy milk
1 large Slimfast Bar

On Friday night, we ate out at Cracker Barrel.  Instead of asking for a box first and putting half the main entree in it, I ate the whole thing!  2 corn bread muffins with 2 pats of butter,  1 bowl vegetable soup with 4 crackers, 1/2 cup fried apples, 1/2 cup homemade mashed potatoes with brown gravy, 1 cup chicken & dumplings, 1/2 cup cooked green beans, 1 lemonade.  The only thing I didn't eat all of was the dessert - 3/4 large slice no sugar apple pie with 3/4 scoop no sugar vanilla ice cream.  So I overate on Friday night.  But I haven't overeaten since, and from now on, when we eat at Cracker Barrel, I'll ask for a box first, put half the meal in it (except for the dessert), and eat the other half with no guilt.

Denise Phares/kitties4

Denise you may find it's not the pressure at all, but the fact you aren't getting enough sleep during the week.  You might want to look into those two links I PM'd you for more information, however, I can tell you from experience that even with my machine, if I don't get at least 7 hours of sleep then I feel "apnea" tired.  As I tell my DB, my sleep is extremely important to my health.  It takes quite a balance to find what does/doesn't work. 

I agree with you.  This is why I am very gradually  trying to increase my sleep time during the week nights.  I have started with 15 minutes more this Monday, and will continue with that until my body is used to it.  Then I will add another fifteen minutes on, and so on.  I tried to add a full hour right away, and my body couldn't adjust to it.  My therapist recommended the gradual way.  How did you get more sleep during the week?  I'd like to know.

Denise Phares/kitties4

Simple for me, because of my years of undiagnosed OSA, I always slept more than 8 hours.  Even though it's busy at home, I make sure to go to bed by certain times depending on what time I need to get up the next day.  I always try to get to bed 8-1/2 hours before I need to get up.  This way I have time to fall asleep and if I wake up in the middle of the night, I have a little extra time so I won't be too short of my 8 hours.  I do find once it stays daylight longer, I need less sleep.