In May I was diagnosed with severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Which basically means my soft palate or my throat blocks my airway and causes me to stop breathing in my sleep. During my sleep study, they found out that I stopped breathing 95 times an hour while I slept. No wonder I felt like hell.
This is the contraption I sleep with at night, and yes I'm much too vain to post a pic of myself with it on. The idea of this contraption is that it forces air into my airway and keeps the soft palate and throat from relaxing and collapsing.
My husband says I look like I'm about to blow up the death star, and calls me Red Leader.
After a few months on this thing, I do feel some better. I feel more rested, and I actually sleep a full 6-7 hrs a night.
The mask is uncomfortable and sucks ass, but I'm getting used to it. There are days I wake up annoyed with it and yell at it, call it bad names and throw it down and resign myself to being awake. But for the most part I'm just really glad to be getting a full night's sleep.
On occassion when I nap I rebel and don't put it on, but I make sure that it's a short nap.
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