Hi buyorsell, My first sleep study 12 years ago was "normal"........but I had only slept a little over 1 hour, so how the heck could they know?? My internist a couple years ago really felt that alot of my fibromyalgia symptoms might be sleep apnea, so he sent me to a different sleep lab, and it show mild-mod apnea (30/hr), and I have been using CPAP since. It hasn't cured some of my symptoms, but I have more energy than I've had for 15 years. You don't necessarily need a doctor's order these days for a machine, and you can get a used one. Check out cpaptalk.com. Lots of great info on there. Is it possible you need to try a different sleep lab with a different doctor? How many hours did you sleep during your test? We fibromyalgia people also have another kind of sleep disorder, besides the apnea, and as soon as we start to go into deeper sleep, our brain wakes us up. So we hardly ever get deep sleep. I'm not sure of your age, but I have seen so many women develop fibro during perimenopause, so I'm sure its related to our hormones too. Everything went to heck at that time for me. Plus, I got a bad virus, which seemed to make everything alot worse. My father had sleep apnea too. I think there is a genetic component to it. After my sleep study, I refused to go back for the titration study. My sleep deprivation was causing alot of of panic attacks, and I just couldn't go through another night like that. I found a sleep doc who was kind enough to let me try a machine, without the titration study. Perhaps your doc would let you try it, even though your study didn't look bad enough? Your insurance might not cover it though. The newer machines are computers, and they can see and print out what you're doing all night.........number of apneas, hypopneas, leakage, etc. Here's another possibility for you.........you can get/rent/borrow a recording oximeter for a few nights and that will show how many times you desaturate during the night. That would be an excellent way to tell if perhaps your sleep study didn't show the problem. Our local DME company (durable medical equipment)Lincare actually let me borrow an oximeter for free, at the beginning of all this, and it showed alot of desaturation. Then I went on to get the sleep study. No offense to your doctor, but I think trying CPAP would be one of the best things you could try for your fibro. Nothing can be good if you're not getting restorative sleep.

Thank you! I know it's not much, but I live in a rental and it was already here. I'm just soooooo super happy to have it up and am excited to watch it fill in!

We clueless have to stick together! :) OK, people -- the water was stink-o-rama the first two days. Now it is very mildly pond-ish, not so bad. The only "rotten" scent is exactly at the filter. But why are there so many bubbles now? Water possibly LESS clear now because the movement is so strong. Waiting to see what happens after a couple weeks. Anything else I should be doing??

13.5 hours into the rebuild....I could not believe all the aquatic life that I have found in that pond..absolutely amazing..I transplanted some small fry in the stream today...the liner in the old pond is totally exposed now..5"-6" of water remains in the old pond..water lettuce out the wazooo LOL..I'm going to make a skippy style filter at the start of the stream...so tomorrow I'll be shopping at tractor supply...I'll fill the stock tank up with the remaining pond water and transfer my fish to that...then I'll move the main liner to the new main pond and cover everything with rocks...hope to be done with that by Sunday evening...including filling up the new pond with water...I'll let it sit for 24 hours then introduce the fish to their new home....after that I'll work on getting the plumbing finished and the cover up of the filtration device...oh yeah...I'm getting rid of the largemouth bass...they keep me from having fantails LOL....Happy POnding!! Dave Link added is about 10 hours into the rebuild..I ran out of light this evening to update pictures..... Here is a link that might be useful: pondredo