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Sleep apnoea assessment while on treatment

Started 3 July 2026 · 10 replies · 64 hearts · read 1.2k times

TychoLeiden, NL · 3 July 2026
2 weeks ago

Sleep apnoea assessment while on treatment Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

Something is going on with my body and I would like to know whether it is ordinary.

I want to describe this accurately rather than politely, because the polite version is what I said at my last appointment and it got me nowhere.

I would like to hear timescales more than remedies. Knowing how long other people's lasted would turn this from an open-ended thing into a bounded one.

Something is going on and I would like to know whether other people have had it, mostly so I know whether to raise it or wait it out.

Thank you for reading something this unglamorous. Any experience welcome, and timescales especially.

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Ollie OPeterhead, UK
#1

Mine was worst in winter and much better in summer, and I now think a good half of it was seasonal and would have happened anyway.

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KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK
#2

Noting for anybody reading later: where the person who asked has come back with what happened, that post is usually worth more than everything offered before it, and it is never the one at the top.

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SamPortland, OR
#3

The bit I underestimated was how much the fatigue affected my mood, and how much I then attributed to my mood that was actually just being tired.

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TorinBelfast, NI
#4

Sam has already said most of this and I want to add the one part that was different for me.

Light in the morning was the thing that helped most and cost nothing. Twenty minutes outside before nine, most days, and my nights changed within a fortnight.

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GildaTrieste, IT
#5

Torin said something I want to sit with for a second.

I was tired for about eight weeks and then I was not. I have no explanation. I offer it as data because the eight-week accounts are what I needed at week three.

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RillaAberdeen, UK
#6

Mine improved when I fixed something completely unrelated, which had been quietly wrecking my nights for a year. Worth casting a wide net.

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NilsUppsala, SE
#7

What worked was accepting that I had less in the day than I used to, temporarily, and taking things out of the week rather than trying to do them tired.

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BassCoventry, UK
#8

The vivid dreams caught me completely off guard. Nobody had mentioned them and about a third of this circle seems to have had them.

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KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK
#9

A note for anybody arriving at this thread mid-way: if what you are experiencing is frightening rather than merely uncomfortable, that is a reason to ask somebody qualified this week rather than to read further.

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SunnivaBodø, NO
#10

Picking up Kiki’s point rather than starting a new one.

Something practical: I stopped scheduling anything on the evening of the day I do it. That one change took the pressure out of the whole week.

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