I suffer from severe apnea as well as insomnia, I have a cpap which I find difficult to use, I have also went thru the surgery that is supposed to help with apnea but that made it worse. I have tried to use traditional meds like lunesta, but I become immune quickly but in the meantime, I suffer from memory loss and the like.
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Yes pot will help you sleep
Yeah pot is great, just get really baked and you’ll sleep like a baby.
Noooope. Pot will help you fall asleep and stay there, but it cant make your breathing better!!!!
You need to look further at your CPAP. Why is it hard to use? Is the mask uncomfortable? If you look up CPAP masks on amazon, you get 200+ masks listed! There’s all shapes and sizes.
Keep an open mind. The small things are nice, but they ALL put pressure upwards on your nose. The normal nasal styles are nice and there’s enough variations you should be able to get something that helps. If you find your mouth is open all night, try humidification. if that fails, consider a full face mask. Having your mouth wide open CREATES breathing events and makes it worse.
However, it’s time to DO something.
I have insomnia as well. I occasionally smoke weed and find that I sleep very well that night. I wouldn’t recommend it as a permanent thing to use, but more of a method for the times when you really need a good rest. Over the last year I have been taught how to meditate, and find that this helps my body and mind to feel less tired, even though I rarely sleep.
Marijuana is great for insomnia, but I am not sure that it does anything at all for sleep apnea. Although if you are awakened frequently during the night because you stop breathing, marijuana might help you sleep through it all. I would recommend you get a mask like cpap and you should *still* smoke marijuana to help you deal with the anxiety of not breathing while you sleep. The anxiety cause by knowing you have sleep apnea can keep you awake at night. If all these people think smoking marijuana is bad for your lungs, they should look into vaping, as it’s not bad for you at all, to get a vaporizer to smoke your marijuana, as it is only just pure thc and water vapor, and therefore not harmful. Also sleep apnea really doesn’t have as much to do with your lungs as it has to do with stimulation of your parasympathetic nervous system telling your brain subconsciously to breathe in breath out breathe in breathe out without you realizing it. Good luck with trying to sleep…it’s the most miserable thing to be stuck awake at night.
No, i do not believe pot is useful for sleep apnea.”Stress and a change in your life style can have an effect on your sleeping habits”
says Michael Stevenson, Ph.D. director of insomnia clinic and sleep disorders clinic at Holy Cross Hospital in Mission Hills California.
“Isolation, boredom, loss of social contacts and preoccupation with self all hit at once. sleep goes right out the window.”
however, there are several things you can do on your own to reintroduce a normal sleeping pattern into your life, and they begin with keeping regular hours. this doesn’t mean that you have to go to bed at the same time every night, but it does mean that you should get up at the same time every day. This will help establish a routine for your body rhythms.
Avoid caffeine late in the day. The same goes for exercise.Exercise revs up the body, and a work out to soon before bed time can keep you awake longer than you want.
Maintaining a proper sleep environment is also important. Your bedroom should be dark, quiet and comfortable as possible. The temperture of the room should be cool, around 65 degrees and your bed should be comforable-for you.
A light snack before bed time may also be helpful for some peoples. Some doctors suggest a glass of warm milk or a banana because they contain tryptophan, an amino acid that is converted into a substance in the brain call serotonin, which help induce sleep. Food only contain small amount of tryptophan, which is why it doesn’t have the same effect on all peoples.
Tryptophan is available over the counter in capsual form.” Tryptophan certainly is not a cure-all for all types of insomnia. But you can give it a try with you doctor’s approval and supervision,” says Dr.Martin Reite, M.D
drop by my site as I have a question for you that I will not ask in this forum. It’s not inappropriate but pertaining to your sleep apnea.
Yes, but make sure your smoking an Afghan strain. Cause Siteva’s are in general an up high; and you want to crash to sleep.
Why is your CPAP difficult to use? Sounds like you have some other sleep issues besides apnea. Here is my experience:
I was a snorer for a long time. As I got older, my snoring got more frequent and louder. I also noticed I was tired a lot and liked to take naps during the day. I was overweight. People complained about my snoring and I did not want to sleep in the same room with other people for fear of keeping them awake.
Finally, I talked with a doctor about the problem. He sent me home with a machine to check my breathing and pulse while I slept. The results really shocked me! The doc said my airway was closing off up to 70 times each hour, and that I stopped breathing for as long as one full minute at a time! I had severe apnea. He strongly recommended I start using the CPAP machine, since I was risking damage to my heart due to lack of oxygen.
I had read about CPAP machines before and always thought I would never be able to sleep with one, since I am a little claustrophobic. Surprisingly, it only took me a few minutes to get used to, and I was able to start sleeping comfortably right away.
The mask part is just a small nose manifold that covers the nostrils to blow in air. That keeps the throat inflated like a balloon, preventing throat closures and snoring. One problem is the straps over the head that keep the nose piece in place. They can be a little annoying at first, and if you change sleeping positions at night, it is possible for these straps to move, causing the nose piece to slip off.
I have been using a Dreamhelmet (a combination sleep mask sound-muffling pillow) for years now, to sleep at night and for napping during the day. I always find it hard to sleep without the Dreamhelmet, and was afraid I would not be able to use it with the CPAP mask, but I was wrong about that too.
After using the CPAP machine and mask for a short while, I tried wearing the Dreamhelmet over the CPAP mask, covering up the straps – voila, it worked like a charm! I found that the Dreamhelmet actually helps keep the straps in place when I change positions, so now I can sleep all night in comfort, not being bothered by sound, light, or changing positions. The CPAP combined with the Dreamhelmet are the perfect sleeping combo for me. You can see and buy the Dreamhelmet for under 30 bucks at http://www.dreamhelmet.com
Now I don’t snore, I wake up rested, and I have energy that lasts all day long. I’m still overweight, but I don’t feel so run down all the time or feel like I need an afternoon nap, but I still carry an extra Dreamhelmet in the car with me just in case I do need a nap.
I agree that the nasal pillow is the most comfortable set up. You need to figure out a way to get comfortable with that machine and use it every night. How about connecting it up to a vaporizer (just kidding) If I don’t wear my mask I wake up with sharp stabling pain in my left rib cage from my wifes elbow (not kidding). When people talk about relieving stress in your life they probably are unaware that insomnia can be completely physical. I am retired, financially secure, happily married,love my kids,have a 805 fico score and not a care in the world. But I can not get a decent nights sleep. I lay there with my eyes wide open and am not stressing on one damn thing other than I wish I could fall asleep. I also should mention I have a very well rounded exercise routine. The ambien worked for a while then the lunesta. Tonight I will be smoking a little pot at around bedtime for the first time since the Nixon addministration. I’ll let you know how it works out