• Lumidaub@feddit.org
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    But also avoid lying on your back if you snore and you’ll die early if you sleep on your stomach and if you don’t change positions several times a night, there might be something wrong or maybe it’s just your mattress that is too soft or too hard and btw if you ever even catch a glimpse of blue light, you will never ever sleep well at all anyway so there’s no point in anything in any case.

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            16 hours ago

            Yeah, when I started working 3rd shift, people suggested I get an eye mask to help my sleep in daylight. Took me forever to fall asleep, then I would wake in a panic about 5 minutes later because there was “something crawling on my face”…

            Room darkening curtains and double shift exhaustion solved my sleep issues, lol. I also learned about biphasic sleep, and I’m a lot more productive.

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            If you snore badly enough, you’re not sleeping. You just close your eyes and effectively hold your breath between gasps of air.

            I wasn’t breathing for 40 seconds every minute. 10+ hours of sleep and woke up dead tired.

            With the CPAP I get 5-6 hours and wake up fully rested. Worth the pain of figuring out which mask didn’t make me feel like choking (it was the nasal one)

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            24 hours ago

            A lot of people can get used to it. I actually can’t sleep without it now, and I use the full face model. It’s almost comforting now. That said, some people truly cannot get used to a full face mask. If it’s an option, they do make nasal masks (only covers your nose) and nasal pillows (kind of just rests under your nose.)

            I’ve heard there are even more cutting edge options out there but I never looked into them since I’m fine with what I have, but it’s definitely worth doing some research about. Quality sleep really can be life changing if it’s achievable.

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              I would put on my mask a hour before I would even try to sleep just to get use to it. It took me abot 6 months to really get use to it. Now I gave a hard time sleeping without it on.

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            Took me a full year, and I still get panic attacks sometimes when I put it on, but honestly you can do it if you need to. Go see a sleep doc. I was terrified, but I discovered after I got the thing how tired I really was (and I already thought I was pretty tired!)

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            If I’d ever need one of those, I’d be screwed because I too can’t sleep with anything on my face

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              22 hours ago

              It legitimately took me a full year to get used to it. I still have a panic attack every once in a while when putting it on and have to walk around for a few minutes before bed. Anyone can get used to it if you need to.

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          A friend visited for a few days. He left his face-hugger at home.
          His sleep was awful. Sounded like he was fighting with people.
          He looked worse and worse. By the time he left, I think he was in dire need of a full sleep.
          It was gross. Stop doing coke, Keith. At least he’s lost some weight since then. Its probly the coke tho …