CPAP weaning!

[chesson]

Hi Irina

I was on a cpap machine for 8 years after a minor brain haemorrhage. I never had the typical apnea symptoms and only knew I had it due to my wife's insistance that I stopped breathing for long periods during my sleep. The cpap stopped the apnea but I never felt any benefit to my general health. After having a stent due to a blocked cardiac artery, I was retested and told I no long had apnea and was taken off the machine. 6 years went by without it and without any obvious problems. I did however have a pacemaker fitted a few years after stopping the cpap, then eventually developed PAF last year. My wife noticed the strange breathing again so I was retested and found to have severe apnea! So now have a machine again. Again, I've never noticed any benefit with the cpap. The moral of the story being that you can spontaneously recover from apnea then if you are unlucky, spontaneously slip back into it. Not sure if my experience will help you, but thought I'd share it anyway. Cheers. Peter.

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Surely if you were stopping breathing when you were sleeping then you had atypical sleep apnoea and that is what your sleep study showed and that is why you got a CPAP machine.

The benefit to your health is surely that the fleshy mass of your tongue isn’t stopping you breathing as you sleep so your heart isn’t being affected by being overworked and your body rested.

Amazing that it ‘repaired’ itself but has now returned, I’ve never been told or read that could happen, only ever been told losing weight would help and eventually you may rid yourself of the machine.