When you have a 2-3 minutes of free time during day or evening, and especially as you lie down to fall asleep, practice the following: Simply close your eyes and take an especially deep breath, filling your lungs to capacity and then totally relax your chest and diaphragm and breath out naturally. Breathing in deeply …
Insurance companies tend to approve fairly high end CPAP and BIPAP machines, because they know patients will be more likely to use them. New machines are very nearly silent and there are a range of mask configurations to choose from e.g., nose-only, and partial or full-face masks. You can try out different masks, of course. …
In addition to tapering sleep medication, it is very important to find better long-term ways of eliminating insomnia that don’t involve drugs. Substituting alcohol to help you sleep for example, is a bad idea. One area of help may require you to change pre-sleep behavior that promotes insomnia, such as watching bright TV or other …