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that's a lot of stopping

Visited with the Sleep doc today, and got the results of my sleep study. Apprently I stopped breathing 42 times an hour.

I saw the sleep pattern too and the level 4 (deep) stage of sleep, I got to for maybe a few minutes at a time while not on the machine.

The diffrence between the machine and not the machine is pretty vast.

He also suggested either loosing up the mask or wearing a bandaid over my nose at night (cause I have this big scab on my nose cause the mask keeps rubbing it.

The problem was that when I had the mask looser, it was letting air out and it blew on my eyes and then I'd have dry eyes ALL day...not just first thing in the morning, but ALL day.

But I did tell him about snoring my whole life (even when I was a skinny kid) and how my younger sister had something done that pretty much stopped it and it was worse then mine ever was. And that the CPAP machine was requiring to much of a commitment for me (a pill you just take, boom, done, this you wear it every night and clean it every day) and that I wanted to explore surgical options.

So in about 2 weeks I have an appointment with an ENT doctor.