The Zoloft is notorious for making people drowsy and need to sleep and also for causing people to be less than maybe as energetic as they would like when they wake up.
Look up the side effects and also potential ways it can actually affect sleep architecture itself. SSRI & SNRI effects on sleep..google it.
Something to maybe talk over with your doctor.
That said...I am still not a morning person...I hate mornings but it's just me. Not meds related...not sleep apnea related...not even related to how many hours of sleep I get but definitely worse when I only get 4 hours of sleep because of the damn dog.
The best cpap therapy in the world won't make me a morning person because I have never in my life been a morning person. It's not going to make me into something I never was to start with no matter how much I might want it to.
SteveBR wrote:
Do you think going back to a full face mask may help my flow limitation that may be caused by my nasal congestion? I do believe as long as I use Afrin I' don't breath out of my mouth.
No...doubt it will help the flow limitation graph and in fact might make it worse if the FLs are down in the airway and not in the nasal mucosa area.
Sometimes with a full face mask people actually need more pressure to get the same results as they get with a nasal mask. Not sure why but I suspect it is related to what the full face mask does to the position of the jaw.
But you could try it and see what happens.
Most people who have nasal congestion say that using the nasal interface mask actually helps the congestion more because of the more direct pressure.
I suggest using the mask that lets you sleep the best in terms of sleep quality first...gotta get the sleep first before any of this other stuff matters.
So use the one that you like the best in terms of comfort and least annoying during the night.
Here's an example of what a clean Flow Limitation graph looks like. Now please don't think that this is something you have to see on your reports.
I show it just so you can compare what I mean by active. Yours isn't horribly active...and trust me I have seen much worse than yours and why I am wishy washy about letting the machine try to kill the FLs with more pressure in your case. I am not so sure that yours need to be nuked with more pressure but eventually you may want to try to kill them just to see if it changes anything.
I may have to RISE but I refuse to SHINE.
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