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**loochy** · 07-21-2016, 01:47 PM

Let's talk about naps. What are some of your favorite techniques?

Do you sit in the easy chair? Do you lay on the couch? On the floor? Get in bed?

Do you take long naps > 1 hr or do you take quick 15 minute ones.

I could really use any sort of nap right now and I got to thinking about how others feel regarding naps.

Dayze · 07-21-2016, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by ThaVirus

Those naps where you wake up not knowing what year it is are best. With saliva and pillow/blanket/couch indentations on your arms and shit.

Ah. That's the life.

**DaneMcCloud** · 07-21-2016, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!

Before I got on the CPAP, I napped frequently. I was always exhausted. During my sleep study, they said I had "severe" sleep apnea - I stopped breathing 40 times per hour and my oxygen saturation dips into the 60s.

Since then, I rarely nap. If I do, it's on a weekend on the couch.

And for as long as I can remember, quick 15-20 minute naps are the best for me. Anything longer and I won't get to sleep at night.

I was diagnosed with sleep apnea ten years ago. My wife said I was snoring heavily when we first got together in 1996 and the doctors said I'd most likely had it my entire life.

I didn't want to use a CPAP, so I opted for surgery. The doctor removed my tonsils, adenoids and excess tissue in my throat and mouth. The anesthesiologist asked if I had asthma, which was recently diagnosed and he said "This will cure it!".

Unfortunately, everything was worse.

When taking care of our youngest while my wife was recovering from cancer, I'd hang out in our playroom on the sofa and would frequently doze off. It freaked me out. That happened for a couple years or until she started preschool.

After the awful surgery, I avoided going to the doctor for five years. I finally went last May and the doctor immediately said "I can tell by looking at you that you have sleep apnea". So I had to do two tests because during the first test, I couldn't get comfortable or sleep, prompting them to want to prescribe medicine (I refused). I went back a second time and finally got a machine in late October.

I went through four masks before I found one in which I could sleep through the night. Since then, I've felt absolutely amazing. I'm never, ever tired during the day, never doze off and even on six hours of sleep, I have productive days and I'm never tired.

It's on of the greatest inventions, ever.

listopencil · 07-21-2016, 06:35 PM

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This is me.

**Fire Me Boy!** · 07-21-2016, 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

I was diagnosed with sleep apnea ten years ago. My wife said I was snoring heavily when we first got together in 1996 and the doctors said I'd most likely had it my entire life.

I didn't want to use a CPAP, so I opted for surgery. The doctor removed my tonsils, adenoids and excess tissue in my throat and mouth. The anesthesiologist asked if I had asthma, which was recently diagnosed and he said "This will cure it!".

Unfortunately, everything was worse.

When taking care of our youngest while my wife was recovering from cancer, I'd hang out in our playroom on the sofa and would frequently doze off. It freaked me out. That happened for a couple years or until she started preschool.

After the awful surgery, I avoided going to the doctor for five years. I finally went last May and the doctor immediately said "I can tell by looking at you that you have sleep apnea". So I had to do two tests because during the first test, I couldn't get comfortable or sleep, prompting them to want to prescribe medicine (I refused). I went back a second time and finally got a machine in late October.

I went through four masks before I found one in which I could sleep through the night. Since then, I've felt absolutely amazing. I'm never, ever tired during the day, never doze off and even on six hours of sleep, I have productive days and I'm never tired.

It's on of the greatest inventions, ever.

Similar here in how I feel post CPAP.

Dayze · 07-21-2016, 07:06 PM

I wonder if I have some sort of sleeping disorder. I'm exhausted every day. I go to bed at night around 9pm -10om and wake up at about 630am. Usually wake up four times a night minimum. Come 1pm, I'm nearly worthless. Tired ALL the time. Been that way for years.

Even as a kid, could never fall asleep, and have been a tired person during the day since grade school.

**DaneMcCloud** · 07-21-2016, 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Dayze

I wonder if I have some sort of sleeping disorder. I'm exhausted every day. I go to bed at night around 9pm -10om and wake up at about 630am. Usually wake up four times a night minimum. Come 1pm, I'm nearly worthless. Tired ALL the time. Been that way for years.

Even as a kid, could never fall asleep, and have been a tired person during the day since grade school.

You should tell your doctor, who will order a Sleep Study.

Apnea will cut years, if not decades, off of your life.

If you're not getting the proper amount of oxygen when sleeping, your liver, kidneys and most importantly, heart, will work to hard too compensate, leading to any early death.

**Fire Me Boy!** · 07-21-2016, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Dayze

I wonder if I have some sort of sleeping disorder. I'm exhausted every day. I go to bed at night around 9pm -10om and wake up at about 630am. Usually wake up four times a night minimum. Come 1pm, I'm nearly worthless. Tired ALL the time. Been that way for years.

Even as a kid, could never fall asleep, and have been a tired person during the day since grade school.

Similar to me pre-CPAP. I really didn't want to go on it. At the time, I was already sensitive to moving a dialysis machine in, I really didn't want to make my bedroom more like a clinic. Glad I did.

I also travel for work. Not wanting to deal with dialysis AND CPAP while traveling, I didn't take it on my first trip. Regretted that. Now it goes where I go.

Dayze · 07-21-2016, 07:14 PM

Well shit....lol

I guess I'd better get a doctor. I haven't been to one in probably nearly a decade. Lol.

I'm at the point now though, where I'm just straight up exhausted . I need to get to a doc I suppose.

**Buzz** · 07-21-2016, 07:14 PM

I will go into the customer lounge at work a couple times a month and take a quick nap at lunch. It doesn't last long as there is manufacturing equipment going on in the background, people talking, doors slamming shut. It can be refreshing, I guess it's more like resting my eye's and getting away from the computer screen.

**DaneMcCloud** · 07-21-2016, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Dayze

Well shit....lol

I guess I'd better get a doctor. I haven't been to one in probably nearly a decade. Lol.

I'm at the point now though, where I'm just straight up exhausted . I need to get to a doc I suppose.

If you have apnea and start on a CPAP, it'll change your life almost immediately.

After finding the right mask, I couldn't believe the difference.

It's life changing, in my experience, and everyone I know that's done it has said the same thing. Also, you begin to dream again, very vividly.

**DaneMcCloud** · 07-21-2016, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Buzz

I will go into the customer lounge at work a couple times a month and take a quick nap at lunch. It doesn't last long as there is manufacturing equipment going on in the background, people talking, doors slamming shut. It can be refreshing, I guess it's more like resting my eye's and getting away from the computer screen.

Are you using an LED/LCD or CRT?

**Buzz** · 07-21-2016, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Are you using an LED/LCD or CRT?

Have no clue, never thought about it, company computer monitor?

**Fire Me Boy!** · 07-21-2016, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

If you have apnea and start on a CPAP, it'll change your life almost immediately.

After finding the right mask, I couldn't believe the difference.

It's life changing, in my experience, and everyone I know that's done it has said the same thing. Also, you begin to dream again, very vividly.

Agreed. Once I learned to sleep with it, I started sleeping through the night immediately and felt so much better.

**DaneMcCloud** · 07-21-2016, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Buzz

Have no clue, never thought about it, company computer monitor?

Make sure it's an LED/LCD because there's no radiation involved, which can severely damage your eyes over time. If it's not and they won't replace it, spend $99 dollars and get one for the sake of your eyes.

I have two 24" LED's that I look at all day and night without issue.

Take care of yourself, Dude!

BWillie · 07-21-2016, 10:24 PM

I hate naps. If I take a nap I'm tired the rest of the day and lethargic. Although some may consider my sleeping on certain nights a "nap". Some nights I'll sleep 3.5 hrs and some nights I'll sleep 11 hrs. To those who say you can't catch up on sleep....I don't know about that...after my 11 hour of sleep I feel like a million bucks

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07-21-2016, 07:06 PM	#50
Dayze Resident Glue Sniffer Join Date: Nov 2003 Casino cash: $5199358	I wonder if I have some sort of sleeping disorder. I'm exhausted every day. I go to bed at night around 9pm -10om and wake up at about 630am. Usually wake up four times a night minimum. Come 1pm, I'm nearly worthless. Tired ALL the time. Been that way for years. Even as a kid, could never fall asleep, and have been a tired person during the day since grade school. __________________ Life is 99% inspiration, 1% Perspiration, and 1% Attention to Detial. RIP & Godspeed: Saccoppo Lonewolf Ed Fire Me Boy
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07-21-2016, 07:14 PM	#53
Dayze Resident Glue Sniffer Join Date: Nov 2003 Casino cash: $5199358	Well shit....lol I guess I'd better get a doctor. I haven't been to one in probably nearly a decade. Lol. I'm at the point now though, where I'm just straight up exhausted . I need to get to a doc I suppose. __________________ Life is 99% inspiration, 1% Perspiration, and 1% Attention to Detial. RIP & Godspeed: Saccoppo Lonewolf Ed Fire Me Boy
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Buzz I like Pie! Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In my garage Casino cash: $10016623	I will go into the customer lounge at work a couple times a month and take a quick nap at lunch. It doesn't last long as there is manufacturing equipment going on in the background, people talking, doors slamming shut. It can be refreshing, I guess it's more like resting my eye's and getting away from the computer screen.
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