Ok I'm scheduled for this tonite and have many problems with it and feel like my head is going to explode! I told the doctor that #1. I don't sleep at night (I'm up at night), #2. I don't sleep away from home, if I go on vacation or something...I'm screwed, thankfully I can't afford to go away very often lol. #3. I don't sleep for 6-8 hours at a time. Odd, I know, but I take after my mother in this sense where I sleep for about 4 hours before class (went back to college) and nap later in the day. It works for me even tho its not how its "supposed" to work. I've always been this way. So I get scheduled for a sleep study when I don't sleep anyway...plus the other problems. I don't know what to do! I don't want to spend a sleepless and horribly uncomfortable nite (a time when I'm usually doing homework and studying anyway) laying awake in some strange room. No matter how much I bring from home, it never works to help me sleep anywhere other than home. I'm freaking out about this...I'm ready to call the whole surgery off because I know if I don't hit the stages of sleep that I'll have to redo it. That will make it even worse. HEEEEEEEEEELP!

Lisa, I understand where you are coming from. I have to admitt I am not doing well with cpap thing. I start out every night with it on. And I wake up at 3am every morning. I am not getting hardly any sleep. Maybe 5-6 hours a night. If I am lucky. I go see the dr. in a day or so. I have talked to the nurse several times. And she keeps telling me to wear it and not sleep without it. OH BOY that really helps. I have major headaches every morning, my family is beginning to hate me because I am so hateful. I do not like myself, or the way I am acting but I do not know what to do. I am so tired of hearing how wonderful this thing is, and how everyone feels so much better now that they have it. It makes me feel like some kind of freak because its not working that way for me. i have been told that its good for me because I have a heart condition and this will make me feel so much better. Well its been 3 weeks and I don't. But I will keep trying because I need to have WLS and if this is what I have to do to get it I will. I keep hoping that if I lose the weight I can turn my cpap into a nice dust collecting piece of ........ But till then i will keep using it. If you only use it for an hour a night. Try just wearing it during the day while you read or watch TV, and still try to use it at night. After all it is a small price to pay for trying to get healthier. And reminder you can always send me a post to rant, I will listen and understand. You are not alone even though it may feel that way sometimes. Just holler if you need to rant. LOL

ok that number is how many times you stop breathing in an hour, I think...mine is 29.

Hi all. I was diagnosed with Sleep Apnea back in 2002, then I lost weight, then stopped using it. Last Sept, i went and got evaluated again and was told I had a very mild case of it and that I can use a CPAP again. I went from 412 to 360 (then and now) and I was told this past thursday, that I dont need the machine anymore. Im so happy. I go for my intital WLS consult tomorrow morning and I am so happy. I just wanted to share.......Sunny

I was just told I would have to have a AHI number of over 10 or 11 (depending) on insurance to be approved. I have no idea what my number is? Does anyone else? I use a Bipap at night level 5-15??? Thanks