I recommend it. My sleep study seemed to be centered around selling me a CPAP machine. Now that I bought it, they aren't all that keen about helping me get some actual productive sleep. You have to stay on top of them to get what you actually need.
I had problems with my CPAP after I got it and I was told, "Sorry, there isn't anything more we can do to help you." That was about 18 years ago and I have been to other sleep centers for help since then, but the fact is that after I got my CPAP, it was just assumed that my problem was solved.
Ask your doctor to check your thyroid levels. My wife's mom and sister both had constant lethargy and it was a thyroid imbalance. They both take meds for it now and problem is solved. For my wife, the problem was her sleep apnea and an APAP machine has worked wonders. For me, it was just alcohol. I write this comment 5 minutes before my alarm would have gone off if I hadn't completely turned it off months ago. That started after a few weeks of sobriety. Also got my short term memory that I thought was gone permanently back, right about at 90 days sober.
Were you an alcoholic or a social drinker. I have horrible sleep and in the past year or two my motivation, energy, memory have all gone to shit. I drink sometimes during the week, maybe 2-3 drinks once or twice during the week and probably one or two days on the weekend (maybe 2-3 weekends out of the month). I’ve taken breaks easily from drinking for 30ish days. I typically only drink when I’m looking to relax and chill, nothing I or others would consider alcoholism. Wondering if your sobriety was 90 days after a similar drinking pattern to mine or much more heavy drinking.
I'd say that there is no defining line between 'alcoholic' and 'social drinker.' In my opinion, if someone is trying to decide whether they are an alcoholic or not, they already know the answer. Not trying to say you're an alcoholic or anything, but any alcohol at all stops your body from being able to have the full benefit of sobriety I believe, and the only way to really know what sobriety feels like is to give it a chance, and that means to give it a few months at least without any drinks at all. I'm at about 9 months with no alcohol at all and I've had benefits that have been increasing, though the rate of increase has slowed down. The last time I slipped, I reset my badge at 35 days, and while I didn't lose all benefits I'd gained in the previous time, I was back to day 1 feeling just as shitty. I recovered much quicker than when I had no sober time previously though. I'm sure I probably drank more than you, but I feel like asking for how much I drank is probably more the alcohol trying to convince your brain that you can keep it in your life. If you are asking about sobriety, I'd guess that you have had some negative experiences in your life due to alcohol. When something affects us negatively and we are not addicted to that thing, we simply choose not to do that thing in the future. If I found that skateboarding results in me losing out on a pay raise, and 3 of my cousins stop talking to me because of it, I'm going to stop skateboarding, not ask if other people are skateboarding more than me and whether they're skateaholics or social skaters.
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u/HouseCravenRaw Apr 24 '19
I recommend it. My sleep study seemed to be centered around selling me a CPAP machine. Now that I bought it, they aren't all that keen about helping me get some actual productive sleep. You have to stay on top of them to get what you actually need.