r5TPsooner
7/16/2008, 03:42 AM
I have lived in Oklahoma since March of last year and had seen a doctor maybe three times in a 10 year span up until that point, but since the move, I have had...
1. Diverticulitus
2. Ruptured Disk which required back surgery
3. Tore my Medial Meniscus in my right knee which required surgery
Well, the last few years have been hard on me in the way of getting and staying asleep. As of the last two weeks, I wake up at least every hour on the hour that I lay in bed at night. The last time that I have recorded more than three hours of sleep w/o waking up was over two weeks ago.
I talked to my sister because I remember her having sleep apnea and she has some type of machine that helps her sleep. She claims that it's loud but the best thing invented since sliced bread. She also claims to have more energy and deeper sleep because of the machine.
As you can tell by the time that I've posted this, I'm not sleeping again tonite, and that's after popping a bunch of pain meds. I also decided to hand all of the pain pills over to my wife (they aren't getting me to sleep anyway) so she can destroy them properly up at work. I'm pretty fed up and going down fighting one way or another.
I've done some research on this disease (if it really is a disease) and it seems like a bad mutherfrankfurter from all standpoints! In my mind, all that's left to see, is which type of sleep apnea that I have.
I'm usually hard to scare but the lack of sleep and toll that it seems to have taken on my health is hard to ignore. I'm going to see my doctor next Monday and then hopefully to a sleep study soon after. My desire to do things that I used to enjoy doing has decreased dramatically, almost to the point of depression (God, I hate that word). Luckily, my sense of humor and support from my family, are helping me thru these tough times.
If any of you believe in prayer, please say a prayer for my three kids and my wife. I know that they are worried and I want there minds to be at ease. Hopefully, they can find out was is going on with me before it gets worse. I'm obviously in some bad mambo jambo with this disease.
TIA
1. Diverticulitus
2. Ruptured Disk which required back surgery
3. Tore my Medial Meniscus in my right knee which required surgery
Well, the last few years have been hard on me in the way of getting and staying asleep. As of the last two weeks, I wake up at least every hour on the hour that I lay in bed at night. The last time that I have recorded more than three hours of sleep w/o waking up was over two weeks ago.
I talked to my sister because I remember her having sleep apnea and she has some type of machine that helps her sleep. She claims that it's loud but the best thing invented since sliced bread. She also claims to have more energy and deeper sleep because of the machine.
As you can tell by the time that I've posted this, I'm not sleeping again tonite, and that's after popping a bunch of pain meds. I also decided to hand all of the pain pills over to my wife (they aren't getting me to sleep anyway) so she can destroy them properly up at work. I'm pretty fed up and going down fighting one way or another.
I've done some research on this disease (if it really is a disease) and it seems like a bad mutherfrankfurter from all standpoints! In my mind, all that's left to see, is which type of sleep apnea that I have.
I'm usually hard to scare but the lack of sleep and toll that it seems to have taken on my health is hard to ignore. I'm going to see my doctor next Monday and then hopefully to a sleep study soon after. My desire to do things that I used to enjoy doing has decreased dramatically, almost to the point of depression (God, I hate that word). Luckily, my sense of humor and support from my family, are helping me thru these tough times.
If any of you believe in prayer, please say a prayer for my three kids and my wife. I know that they are worried and I want there minds to be at ease. Hopefully, they can find out was is going on with me before it gets worse. I'm obviously in some bad mambo jambo with this disease.
TIA