CPAP
I'm beginning to suspect that my ob. apnea has not gone completely away, despite the weight loss. Even using the CPAP still (which I assumed I was doing just out of habit, post-op) I find that sometimes I wake up and my heart is going a million beats a minute, which I can only attribute to a hypoxia condition. I (and I think anyone who feels they don't need it, including you, CB) really should have a new new sleep study done to see what is going on before throwing out the machine. It could be that the machine is still needed, but just on a much lower setting than before.
As to what to do if you have the happy occasion to in fact be totally rid of the ole "Big A.", keep in mind that you may have to give the machine away to a friend or some such. Technically, it is against the law to sell a "prescription medical device" to another person, so keep that in mind, for whatever it's worth. It is therfore against the rules of Ebay tor ty to sell one on there, but yet you do see people getting away with it all the time on there. &:-x I used to joke we should hold a "Burning Man" type ceremony at OH events where we put all our pre-op crap (oversized clothes, Bipap and CPAP machines, oversized toilet seats, etc. etc.) in a big pile and burn them in some open place .. !
I was started on CPAP in March about 1 month prior to my surgery. I had a follow up with my MD about 4 weeks after my surgery and complained that I was now having more trouble sleeping with the CPAP and that the pressure just seemed too strong all of a sudden. He dropped my CPAP pressure from 11 to 9, because my apena index was 1 on the 11. I am sleeping so much better with the new setting. I have to see him again in the fall and he says depending on how I am doing, he might do another sleep study to see if I still need the CPAP. I hope that at that time I can get rid of it, but I am now so used to it that it really is not that big of a deal if I need to continue.
Jim
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