Its been one week since I started wearing the MAD oral appliance, and have advanced up to 3mm. Despite this, I feel like I've been run over by a truck. Having a very difficult time waking up, eyes are feeling sore from lack of sleep (even though I have been sleeping a full 7 hours each night), and feeling generally groggy and fatigued. Is this normal? Should I soldier through it and keep advancing slowly (I still have up to 5mm to go), or should I just say fuck it and and give up on the oral appliance?
They called me for a sleep study in 2 weeks, so I have one more week to go until I can find out whether is actually improved my number of events. For context I had mild sleep apnea with 7 AHI and 13 RDI, but had pretty crippling daytime sleepiness(though much more manageable than what I am experiencing currently). I also have a severely deviated nose and enlarged turbinates, which I will be going into surgery for hopefully soon.