Urgent - Haven't slept in 4 days post surgery.

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Exchanged
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Urgent - Haven't slept in 4 days post surgery.

Post by Exchanged » Sun Dec 01, 2024 1:53 pm

Hello everyone! First wanted to say thank you in advance for any help.

5 days ago I had Hiatal hernia and toupet fundlipocation surgery. Lots of work was done on my diaphragm and anatomy was changed in my body. I was able to sleep the first few nights with my Bipap in the hospital but was heavily sedated on pain meds. Since I have been home, I am completely unable to sleep, I have tried everything with no luck, I get to the point right before I drift off to sleep and jolt awake gasping for air with my heart pounding. My surgeon has ruled all "emergency" causes out and she suggested that I may need to alter my old settings on the matching to cope with the changes and pain from the surgery. She also prescribed me Ambien to take tonight so I wanted to make sure everything was correct before that.

Here is last night's and today's when I attempted to nap oscar data. Again, I was unable to fall asleep except for a few brief times last night (less than 30 minutes) but wanted to see if anything was showing what was causing the constant arousals:

https://imgur.com/viuXulS
https://imgur.com/UGoD3RN

Current Settings:
Resmed 10 Bipap
Ipap 13
Epap 7
PS 4
Trigger Very high (previously had a good amount of central)
Cycle Medium
Ti Max 3
Ti Min 0.3

Based on research I was thinking of adjusting to this for the time being but I have no idea what I'm doing...
Resmed 10 Bipap
Ipap 12
Epap 5
PS 4
Trigger Medium
Cycle Medium
Ti Max 3
Ti Min 0.3

Thank you!

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Re: Urgent - Haven't slept in 4 days post surgery.

Post by LSAT » Sun Dec 01, 2024 2:33 pm

If you have "no idea" what you are doing, whhy are you messing with your settings? Contact your doctor.

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Re: Urgent - Haven't slept in 4 days post surgery.

Post by Exchanged » Sun Dec 01, 2024 2:37 pm

I am trying to ask here to get help. It is the weekend and they are closed I am not able to get ahold of them. I am desperate for sleep as I have not slept in days.

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Re: Urgent - Haven't slept in 4 days post surgery.

Post by ChicagoGranny » Sun Dec 01, 2024 4:46 pm

Exchanged wrote:
Sun Dec 01, 2024 2:37 pm
I am trying to ask here to get help. It is the weekend and they are closed I am not able to get ahold of them. I am desperate for sleep as I have not slept in days.
Your AHI is very good on both graphs. CPAP helps a person breathe. Sleeping is more complicated. The effects of the surgery might be causing poor sleep. You could take the prescribed Ambien tonight and report back to this thread tomorrow. Good luck until then.
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