Sleep Apnea Treatment

Question by eddie9551: Sleep Apnea and bad dreams?
I have sleep apnea.
I have a horrible time with bad dreams. I’ve only been using my Auto-pap since february and often I tear the mask off my face when I am sleeping.
I have the dreams all the time but they seem worse when I wake up without the mask. My dreams are of family and friends who have died. They are either in a dilapidated house with lots of creaky stairs and hidden rooms, or in the house I grew up in. I wake up scared to death.
My question. Do you think when I stop breathing it triggers the dreams?

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Answer by littlebitomagic2000
i use a cpap also,,here watch this
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Question by My-Girls-Pinky-and-MJ: Consistant Bad Dreams Every Night?
I am at the point where I dread going to sleep at night. I am awakened several times every night as a result of a bad dream. I wake up usually with my heart pounding, skin damp, breath short, and other general anxiety symptoms. These are connected to the dreams I have. They are always about bad things; death, cheating spouse, loss of a loved one, bad things happening to the kids, loss of a pet, financial despair, etc. The strange thing is, I live a seemingly charmed life. I have a tender, committed husband, we have a great sex life, I have four wonderful healthy children (ages 11-19), I don’t have to work, we are financially solvent, own our own home…you get the idea. I don’t have any reasons to be having all this anxiety. I started getting these bad dreams before my husbands first tour of duty in Iraq. He has since gone back and done another tour, but is home now (for the meantime anyway). I have not had a restful night in the last four years. I have tried going to the doctor. Medication makes my dreams all the more vivid and worse. Foods don’t affect my dreams. I don’t smoke, drink alcohol, or do any drugs. I am no where near menopause and am otherwise healthy. Does anyone have ANY suggestions? Oh, and I did have a sleep study about a year ago and I do not have sleep apnea. It’s bed time and I am not looking forward to another restless night.

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Answer by Tanmoy
Pick up Yoga from your nearby local Yoga Center . I think you are worrying too much and cuaseing to disturb sleep pattern…

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Before even knowing my husband had sleep apnea he very odd/strange dreams as if he was a Indian or grizzly bear.After finding out about the sleep Apnea and getting the machine to help him breath at night,he does not have those dreams anymore. Has anyone had similar dreams like that and we were wondering why this happens is it lack of breathing air at night?

It’s like sometimes my dreams become intertwine with real life. To the point that I can’t tell what’s real or not.
My dreams are sometimes vivid and seem like real life … I don’t think it’s mental.

In your entire life. Jus curious. Im 23 and I can’t remember a single I ever had. Will choose best answer.