u/amxkoko

Recently diagnosed with severe obstructive sleep apnea with a AHI score of 35.5. Struggling with being overweight,extreme fatigue, high BP, PCOS + endo, insulin resistance, & even prescribed with weight loss meds- I could not lose any weight for the life of me- not even a pound.

I tried eating right and excercising..I triedwalking, HIIT workouts, weight training etc. NOTHING WORKED!

With that sleep apnea diagnosis made a whole lot of sense to my primary care doc and myself that was the reason the entire time. I am sleeping with my CPAP machine every nite to help with that now!

We agreed on Ozempic (also this was my very last choice as I hate needles, I faint at getting blood taken out and had bad trauma when I was 12 yrs old. Ive always been terrified of them.)

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Here are my questions especially since I was not informed by my doctor or pharmacist: *ALSO, Im waiting till Friday to take it so I can battle any symptoms that can occur over the weekend*

1. Based on my research, each week that you inject it in yourself. Is it true to not always do the same location?

So one week will be the belly, one wk on the upper arm, the other upper arm, left thigh, right thigh…etc.

2. Should I refridgerate my pen the entire time? Ive seen and heard people saying its just for the first dose of the pen.

3. According to the label directions on my box… I feel dumb for asking this and from what Ive seen the pen only holds 4 doses (1dose every wk) soo Im instructed to take 0.25 the first 4 wks but when it says 0.5 every 7 days..Im confused at that part?

My doctor said before the last wk my of last dose to
message her how I feel and then if I am fine then she will up the dosage..sooo is that refferring to when I pick up my next pen?

4. Any foods you guys sugguest I super stay away from when being on ozempic?

Sorry if its a bit long just nervous, confused, scared and a little hopeful 😭🫠

Hello all :] This is my 2nd night with my new CPAP machine (Airsense 11) and I am still very foreign to the sleep apnea world. My AHI score was a 35.5 which put in the category of severe obstructive Apnea. They have given me the Resmed Airfit N30 nasal mask.

I know these results esp my sleeping time isnt ideal but this better than how long I was actually sleeping before which was 4hrs- so baby steps!

But I have a question regarding the mask on/off (half of those times it was because I was woken up by my cat so I had to kick him out to my sister room lol.

But this is the 2nd night I gotten 0/5 and I do feel like my mask fits me okay when I am laying on my back…because if I put it any tighter my face cheeks are gnna hurt (well not really but u guys get what I am saying.) The only other time i know its not “fitting properly” is when I sleep on my side and yes I sleep on both sides and back throughout the night.

Could there be any other issues I should look out for???

Also I will already am planning to talk to my doctor about switch to a face mask as I am a mouth breather, I sleep in multiple positions.

I will planning to buy a SD card to get the better in depth results with OSCAR that was sugguested to me from this forum.