lately (for some strange reason - answered prayer?) the claustrophobia suddenly lifted, and i've been able use it again, and i thought maybe i noticed in the last couple weeks a bit of an improvement in how i was feeling... a bit more alert, less drowsy, a bit more energy....
well, last night i passed out before i put my mask on, and slept the night without it. and this morning....?
...i feel like CRAP. (i hate that word, so you know i feel *really* unwell if i use it!)
i had a very hard time waking up, had to go lay down after being up for only a couple of hours, and wound up falling asleep again, and sleeping for another couple hours or so, followed by great difficulty waking up *again*. arrrgh.
that's what happens, i guess, when your body is starting to get used to being oxygenated all night (the first few mornings i felt *high*!), and can sleep a full night without much interruption.... and then you suddenly have a night where you are oxygen deprived and continuously come partially awake to start breathing again and thereby get a really crappy sleep - at once overtired *and* oxygen deprived.
i *must* take my sleep apnea more seriously. srsly. i mean, really. the side effects of continued apnea (without proper treatment) are bad, outside of the obvious effects of sleep deprivation..... we're talking high blood pressure, cardiac arrhythmias, heart failure, heart attack, stroke.
oy.
i just really need to find a more comfortable mask....
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