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Old Apr 06, 2013, 09:32 PM
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Please carry a list of your medications with you when you see a lung specialist (or whoever does the appointment for your sleep apnea test). If there are any meds that the doctor thinks might influence a sleep apnea test, he will tell you.

As for the dryness, yes, it can occur, but if you use clear, fresh pure
water in the humidity portion of the machine each night, you'll have plenty of moist air coming your way.

The major benefit of CPAP therapy is that it supplies the REM (rapid-eye movement) sleep that charges our "batteries". And it does reduce or even eliminate the times that you feel you need an afternoon nap.

It does not act as an insomnia solution, however. I still have to take
an antihistamine at times to relieve high histamine levels that interfere with
sleep. I will be surprised if it eliminates all insomnia for you, but you'll just
have to wait and see or ask your specialist about it.

I hope it works for you. I like the Resmed CPAP equipment personally,
but there are, as others have said, many types out there. (It's covered by Medicare, and for you, your health insurance probably will cover it.)

Good wishes and good sleeping!
Thanks for all the information. It sounds like there are different brands? (Resmed) so maybe there are different ones to try.

To clarify, it's not a problem with insomnia, I'm getting enough sleep, the problem is that despite that, I've been extremely sleepy during the day and this just isn't normal for me, at least since I've lowered my Seroquel dose to what I had been taking for a long time previously and was basically fine on.

I can get referred for a sleep study by my PCP who I'm seeing in a couple of weeks. I know my meds backwards and forwards, so no problem there 3 out of the 4 are sedating: Seroquel, Klonopin, and Methadone for chronic pain (yes, aside from being for heroin addicts, it's used for severe chronic neuropathic pain).

But the only new thing since I started falling asleep during the day was the higher dose of Seroquel, but I don't understand why after lowering it I'm not doing better than I am. But sh**t happens, maybe I'll never know why it started now, and for that matter, maybe I don't have it. I'm looking forward to seeing my PCP and trying to get this settled. One of these days I might get caught passed out at my desk at work, and that wouldn't be pretty!

Thanks!