Managing Obstructive Sleep Apnea with Positive Airway Pressure – I have to wear that?!?!

It’s been years since you felt like you got real sleep. You doze off watching TV, reading, or even at stopped at red lights. You’ve been told you snore like a freight train.

You finally talk to your doctor about it. You get a sleep study done that tells you that you have “obstructive sleep apnea”, or OSA for short.

You’re told that you stop breathing when you sleep. Maybe several times an hour. Or in more severe cases, several times a minute.

You’re told about all the scary health risks that come with untreated OSA.

Hypertension.

Heart disease.

Stroke.

You finally look forward to getting restful sleep. You’re motivated to make change. And then your doctor tells you that you have to sleep with a mask on your face attached to a hose pumping air into you all night. But only for the rest of your life!

Your first thought might be “No way! How am I going to get any sleep hooked up to a machine?”

Or maybe your reaction had more colorful language…

PAP therapy is an important but challenging intervention. While it feels daunting at first, it is not impossible. Acclimating to PAP therapy requires persistence and realistic expectations to help you build up your stamina and tolerance. The benefits of PAP therapy, though, are abundant:

-              Better sleep quality

-              Less snoring

-              More daytime energy

-              Less brain fog

-              Easier weight loss

-              Less time dozing off and more time living your life

At Restore Sleep Health, our PAP Essentials class is designed to empower you with the right knowledge and tools to help you get up and running with your PAP machine. PAP therapy is challenging, but you certainly don’t have to do it alone.

With persistence and the right support, you could go from “I can’t sleep with that mask on” to “I can’t sleep WITHOUT that mask on”