I have not been particularly successful with my lap-band. My most recent venture in to see my PA at the surgeon's office left me with the fact that I have to wear my CPAP to lose weight (and not die!). I have severe obstructive sleep apnea with score of 150 (over 30 is considered severe). Apparently, untreated sleep apnea effects leptin and ghrelin, which in turn effect insulin, satiety, and hunger. My PA says that I need to 1) wear the CPAP every night, 2) wake up at the same time every day with bright light, and 3) eat 20 grams of Protein within an hour of waking up. He says I should see positive changes in my life and weight in about 3-4 weeks of doing these things.

So, I got my CPAP adjusted to where everything is comfortable and I've been wearing it every day for the last two weeks. The big problem I am having is my sleep schedule. Some nights I will put on the CPAP and sleep for 12 hours. Other nights I'll put it on and be wide awake after 3 hours (like tonight). This makes it hard for me to observe any sort of actual sleep schedule. Also, some days regardless of the amount of sleep I had the previous night, I am tired in the afternoon and take a nap for a few hours with CPAP. I am waking up at many different times and sleeping at many different times and I am struggling in this aspect. I know it has only been two weeks, and I am trying to be patient. But, I am really struggling with this new irregularity in my sleep schedule. I am also finding it harder to wake up every day at the same time since starting to wear the CPAP.

Can anyone explain what is going on and provide some tips (if there are any) about how to correct the situation?

It is cool laying in bed at night listening to yourself breathing. Soothing. And thinking- Yeah. This is what it feels like to control the Dark Side. But no matter how hard i concentrate, I cant squeeze the general's throat.

Keep the faith. Trust in yourself and the doctors to work this out for you! Best wishes.

Big Daddy is awesome!

"Hip, hip hop, hip hop anonymous? Damn you! You give him the easy ones!!!" LOL

And just for the record, where did you work during college? Lol