In terms of really weird things happening at night, last night was pretty tame. But it's always a bit unnerving when you find you've done something in your sleep you have no recollection of. Granted, it's more unnerving to wake up standing on the bed kicking the stuffing out of your bed partner (done it), but I digress. A story for another day.
Last night I recall waking up about 3-4 times. Pretty par for the course, really. So far as I know, all those times I had on my CPAP mask. However, I woke this morning with the mask not only off my face, but neatly piled on the nightstand, with the CPAP slightly moved and turned off.
Taking off the mask at night is pretty normal. I could let that slide. I've done it. Not often, but I have done it. Usually, though, you find it beside you on the pillow, blowing air into your ear. So taking off the mask isn't terribly unnerving to me. It's that I put everything away (I'm too tired to put everything away when I'm awake... why did I do it in my sleep?!) and actually hit the correct button to turn it off. This isn't a button you just press, either, it takes a pretty deliberate depression to make it respond.
I get nervous, though, because when this stuff happens, the more movement-oriented stuff (I talk all the time in my sleep), it does seem to progress for a couple of days. And I have been having some really horrendous nightmares, which are too horrendous to share here (or even think about.)
So I wonder if something's revving up again. Ah, life with sleep disorders.
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About sleepychick
I'm a 34 year old woman with multiple sleep disorders (sigh). Sleeping's been a lifelong sort of love hate thing for me. I had my first polysomnography in 2001, and I was told I was "fine." Turns out, from my history and the muscle tone that the PSG returned, I showed signs of REM Behavior Disorder.
Fast forward three years, where my neurologist, on hearing my reports of ungodly fatigue (more like someone turned up the gravity) and daily headaches, declared I needed a sleep study.
That time they found moderate obstructive apnea.
Did my CPAP titration, wear it dutifully. But I was still so tired. I mean, tired like I was smote from on high. So two weeks ago, I had a re-titration.
They discovered (this time) I needed my CPAP turned up and I have Periodic Limb Movement in Sleep Disorder. I also have an extremely abnormal sleep architecture.
What I wouldn't give to sleep through the night!
