I am curious to know how OSA has affected your employment situation. In my case, I think it's had a profound impact. I have always turned up to work on time and did what I was supposed to do. However, in many cases employers want an energetic, go getter personality. The problem with dealing with OSA is that it makes concentrating on an uninteresting job pretty difficult. Even though you may be a good worker, your lethargy can be construed as laziness. I have been fired for that exact reason. One employer told me that even though I did a good job, I was too mellow and that perception is more important than reality. That job was kind of like Office Space.

I was just curious about other peoples experiences.

menso35 wrote:

I am curious to know how OSA has affected your employment situation. In my case, I think it's had a profound impact. I have always turned up to work on time and did what I was supposed to do. However, in many cases employers want an energetic, go getter personality. The problem with dealing with OSA is that it makes concentrating on an uninteresting job pretty difficult. Even though you may be a good worker, your lethargy can be construed as laziness. I have been fired for that exact reason. One employer told me that even though I did a good job, I was too mellow and that perception is more important than reality. That job was kind of like Office Space.

I was just curious about other peoples experiences.

I've explained my being diagnosed with OSA and how it affects me physically to my boss, but I'm still being rated low on my performance reports for nodding off when people are talking to me, not remembering conversations, and difficulty in keeping up in complex discussions.  I'm still being held to the same performance expectations as non-OSA sufferers.  From what I hear from others that's the way it is everywhere.  I'm just trying to hang in there until I can retire in 2015.


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Sleepy Dragon

Treatment since 11-July-2008
Mode/Pressure = CPAP @ 19 cmH2O
Machine = ResMed VPAP III w/ heated humidifier
Mask = ResMed Mirage Liberty full face (hybrid)

"I would kill for a good night's sleep!"

I have never been lethargic even before being diagnosed, and I did not notice any new energy when treated. BUT officially we are meant to feel much more energy with CPAP, and be at least as well rested and full of bounce as those who don't suffer from it. So, are you getting the treatment you need?


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Arthur
Sleeping with a curvaceous blonde autoPAP (Resmed autoset). Surviving, and in small ways doing better. Maybe there will be that big surge of energy, and easier weight loss one day. Hope springs eternal.....

I just received SSDI for excessive sleepiness (hypersomnia),  SA, RLS, fibromyalgia and pain issues..plus a few other things were listed...many are what I believe to be the risidual effects of several years of untreated SA that remain long after treatment.  Not the pain and fibro..but the relentless fatigue I have..when I say fatigue..I do not mean being 'sleepy' during the day..I mean down right drag your butt fatigue and major fog with associated automatic behavior and sleep drunkenness actions.


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ArthurAnxious wrote:

I have never been lethargic even before being diagnosed, and I did not notice any new energy when treated. BUT officially we are meant to feel much more energy with CPAP, and be at least as well rested and full of bounce as those who don't suffer from it. So, are you getting the treatment you need?

Today is my six week anniversary on CPAP.  I noticed an initial improvement in alertness when I first started, but now I'm having trouble getting a full night's sleep.  I think that's because exaustion carried me though the first few nights.  Now I just have to continue adjusting to the man/machine symbiosis.


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Sleepy Dragon

Treatment since 11-July-2008
Mode/Pressure = CPAP @ 19 cmH2O
Machine = ResMed VPAP III w/ heated humidifier
Mask = ResMed Mirage Liberty full face (hybrid)

"I would kill for a good night's sleep!"

I wonder if what happens is that we get treated, and catch up on all the sleep we been
missing has anything to do with not being able to sleep.

After awhile we just do not get as tired so it makes it harder for us to sleep,

Penny