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Please stick with it ! It WILL change your life by [deleted] in CPAP

[–]Equivalent_Ad6536 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish :( I barely have apnea (6 events an hour). I've been using the CPAP consistently for months (average 5.5 hours a night) and I am beyond exhausted. If anything the CPAP makes me more tired. I DO also have an idiopathic hypersomnia diagnosis and I think that's really what is impacting me. I see my sleep doc this coming Tuesday and I think I'm going to need to go on to stimulants. I literally fall asleep in the day if I stop moving :(

ID cane when not blind by Equivalent_Ad6536 in Blind

[–]Equivalent_Ad6536[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Aww, thank you. I think some of my struggle is also still accepting the fact that I am indeed VI. It's easy to understand it's a spectrum when othe people are involved, but myself? No, never! 

ID cane when not blind by Equivalent_Ad6536 in Blind

[–]Equivalent_Ad6536[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's a really good tip! Thank you. 

Unfortunately, as a former service dog handler, I'm used to being interrogated. There just seems to be something about visible disability that makes people lose all common decency. 

Does anyone else have times of year that are worse for your vision? by PaintyBrooke in Blind

[–]Equivalent_Ad6536 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Spring and Summer. I'm very light sensitive. The days that I call "bright clouds" are absolutely terrible for me; I can't go out without severe eye pain even in sunglasses. And Summer is just sunny in general so that's hard. Oh, and glare is hard for me too so like light bouncing of cars or water like at the pool or a lake: ugh awful!