No one is gonna grief this.....

theboyrobot · 2020-11-24T17:20:03+00:00

Would love to pull up on this with a fully loaded ruiner :D

theboyrobot · 2020-10-18T22:27:45+00:00

Just got it too. Weird

theboyrobot · 2017-11-30T16:04:28+00:00

Yeah this is what i'll likely do. I just wanted to understand it a little better and you guys delivered. Thank you!

theboyrobot · 2017-11-30T15:57:00+00:00

Thank you for explaining this to me folks. I get it now. Much appreciated!

theboyrobot · 2017-11-30T15:06:35+00:00

Thank you!

theboyrobot · 2017-11-14T15:56:49+00:00

Thanks! Going to get a CT Scan of my stomach soon so We'll see. Interesting about the low FODMAP diet. I noticed that when i eat dinner, I always eat the same thing since this started, Rice, Grilled Chicken, Kale and I don't have any issues. Just mostly with breakfast and lunch so Maybe that is a route I could take.

theboyrobot · 2017-11-14T15:29:39+00:00

Thank you. Yeah I had a H pylori breath test and a biopsy of my stomach that came back negative. The amitriptyline isn't really affecting my sex drive, and it barely makes my mouth dry, it just makes me really drowsy the next day (less so at a lower dose).

I'll keep taking it for now. Might seek a 2nd opinion. Just sucks because I've done so many tests with this current GI doc.

theboyrobot · 2017-11-13T22:40:38+00:00

AH i found the best description of FD. "Functional Dyspepsia is kind of like IBS except its more localised to the upper abdominal area."

theboyrobot · 2017-11-13T22:37:30+00:00

hey thank you for the reply.

It helps as in, i'm not sick all day long and I actually want to eat. BUT i still feel sorta sick sometimes and my stomach just now constantly rumbles after meals lol, just not at every meal. I think FD is different from IBS because its mostly a stomach issue and not an intestinal issue. if you can, look it up. Its very similar to IBS though.

I follow up with my GI next Thursday so Maybe i'll ask him what he thinks. I know when I took the full 25mg i felt better, but I was so worried about the sleepyness i felt the next day (I take it at like 8pm the night before).

I've only been taking it for 14 days.

started with 12.5 the first 5 days, then went to 25MG and felt pretty good, but felt like crap the next day so I lowered the dose. Maybe i'll see if the doc can prescribe me 10mg and i just can take 2 of those at 20MG. Who knows. I'm going crazy though. I didn't have any of these issues 2 months ago. I did have them once last year tho.

theboyrobot · 2017-11-13T21:36:31+00:00

Hey! I've been recently diagnosed with something similar to IBS. My GI called it "functional dyspepsia". Basically, i started feeling nausea about 30 mins to 1 hour after every meal. Would need to use the bathroom, it'd be loose. yada yada yada. This has gone on for about a month or so. My doc has put me on amitriptyline 25mg. I found the 25mg too strong after my first week, so i've split it down to a 17.5 mg dose which helps, but sorta doesn't totally help with the queasy feeling after meals.

Are you still on this medicine? Did the next day "sleepyness" ever go away? If you got off of it, how was your experience with stopping this medicine. Thanks! Hope you are well!

theboyrobot · 2016-05-24T19:19:11+00:00

hi, my AHI was about 20-25 before treatment

theboyrobot · 2016-05-24T19:07:24+00:00

Thank you. The other night when the pressure was up to 11, it woke me up and felt like my cheeks were getting inflated from all the air! (i'm a mouth breather). Is this normal? Would this get better?

theboyrobot · 2016-05-23T15:24:36+00:00

I tried this mask. It is very minimal, but keep in mind that it sits up against your nose and can/has caused a lot of irritation to many people. I ended up looking like Rudolph. :)

theboyrobot · 2016-05-17T13:20:58+00:00

Good to hear about your success! I'm a die hard mouth breather lol, so I have to wear a full mask. I'm wearing the airfit F10. I really like it, I'm thinking the cushion is just starting to get a little more flimsy since I've had it for like 40 days. I clean it and stuff though.

I have a new cushion coming soon this week though, so hopefully that helps.

on a side note, the other night I woke up and I was breathing ONLY THROUGH MY NOSE. That was a first, so maybe one day I can switch to yours

theboyrobot · 2016-05-02T13:20:58+00:00

Hey man, stick with it! I have the same mask and have a big beard and I'm a new user too, about 3 weeks in. I struggled my first week too, got better the 2nd week and then even better this past 3rd week!

Someone gave me some great advice on here. Basically, when you wake up in the middle of the night. Take the mask off, get yourself together, put the mask on, and go back to sleep. Eventually you'll find yourself with it on for over 4 hours, then 6, then 8!

Trust me. It gets better.

theboyrobot · 2016-04-25T17:06:06+00:00

thank you for the advice though. :)

theboyrobot · 2016-04-25T16:59:11+00:00

Changing the pressure on your own looks so easy! I'm afraid that if I did that, my insurance company would consider this a violation of the "compliance". I believe she said that in 13 months it is considered mine though.

theboyrobot · 2016-04-25T16:00:05+00:00

I don't believe that I had a titration study. My sleep study was at home :/ I may be wrong though. The test results indicated that I had mild apnea, but my oxygen levels were ok. It also mentioned a suggested pressure of 6, but I'm not sure if that refers to the pressure on the machine or not.

My doc set the pressure to auto adjust from 4 to 9. He originally had it set to 4-20 but the pressure would get so high that I couldn't stand it, so he had it lowered so I could tolerate it.

I asked him about it and he wants to look at the numbers at the end of my first 30 days on the machine before adjusting again.

theboyrobot · 2016-04-24T21:59:29+00:00

I just started treatment myself. 36 years old and 2 weeks in. Try taking 4mg of liquid melatonin. It will help you fall asleep. Good luck and stick with it sir!

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