Sleep Apnea

[moi621]

If anyone on Board is experienced with the feelings of
Sleep Apnea and its' treatments;
Please share with Bob3 Ex-BFF.
http://www.eunuch.org/forums/private...=newpm&u=33601

Upload here or PM him by his alias, Bobover3. Link above.
I know there are Sleep Apnea sufferers on Board, but I will not out them

Moi

[zatarain33]

I have sent this link to a friend who experienced sleep apnea, I'm sure he is going to share his experiment...

[Paolo]

I know of a few, too. Perhaps they'll chime in.

[bigdude1]

I used to have Sleep Apnea BAD! Then I had Gastric Bypass surgery & as of today I've lost 175 pounds & Sleep Apnea, along with a ton of other health problems, are gone! Don't know if that will help anyone but I thought that I'd throw it out there.

[bobover3]

Don't know about apnea. I'm having laser surgery to widen my airway on Sept. 14. The doctor wants me to a sleep study with a capped tracheostomy tube after that. If I have moderate apnea, it could be treated with CPAP and the tracheostomy tube removed. If I have severe apnea, he might want to keep the tube in as a form of treatment. My hopes for the future a pinned on that September 14 procedure. Thanks to all who've written, and to Moi for starting this thread.

[george2u2]

My wife uses a CPAP machine. One of our friends got up in the .night and didn't put her machine back on, she wasdead in the morning. Heidi's funeral was this last Wednesday

[Paolo]

George, I am so sorry to hear this. My condolences.

[bobover3]

Sorry. That's a scary story.

[Arab Nights]

It is. Sorry about the loss.

I don't know if this helps at all, but I sleep on my stomach. Wife says when I sleep on my back my snoring waked the dead and I breath/snore sometimes very fitfully. Sleeping on my stomach solves that.

She grinds her teeth at night. Sometimes it waked me up. She also has light apnea (?). I will hear a loud snore, and then she stirs and goes back to sound sleep. Teeth guards have solved a lot of that. The dentist sells them for 100s of dollars and then the dog chews on them and I kick the dog. Now she buys them for change at Dollar General and life is much better.

[Paolo]

Youth league sports mouth guards work well, too, for about $1 or so.

[bobover3]

Mouth guards can work for obstructive apnea, which is about 3/4 of all apnea cases. They're good for relatively mild cases. About 1/4 of apnea sufferers have central apnea, caused by a defect of the central nervous system. Mouth guards won't help central apnea. Only CPAP or a tracheostomy tube help that.

[moi621]

Mouth guards can work for obstructive apnea, which is about 3/4 of all apnea cases. They're good for relatively mild cases. About 1/4 of apnea sufferers have central apnea, caused by a defect of the central nervous system. Mouth guards won't help central apnea. Only CPAP or a tracheostomy tube help that.

What is Central Apnea?
And how would a trach tube benefit a non obstructive form of sleep apnea?
Do tell!

[TgEunuch]

Sleep Apnea is nothing to blow off. As someone who has severe sleep apnea, I have to be on a bi-pap machine, set on high. If you have sleep apnea, get it treated, don't screw around, get treated, you feel better, sleep better, have more energy.

[bobover3]

Moi and TgEunuch, a doctor recently told me that CPAP (BiPAP) became unpleasant at high pressures, so that many people didn't wear it. He said that a tracheostomy tube was the one reliable treatment. Please comment.

How can you tell whether you have obstructive or central apnea? Was the doctor wrong?

[happyfeet1]

A while back my friends and family insisted that I be tested for apnea, as I kept scaring them by suddenly gulping in air when I was sleeping, making enough noise inhaling suddenly that I actually woke them up. The test consisted of going to an appropriate hospital a few cities over and spending the night attached to a bunch of machinery. As it turned out, apnea wasn't my problem, but if you haven't had this sort of test, you might want to ask them why not. You mentioned a sleep study, which you have or are presumably taking/taken by now, but did you have a previous sleep study at all? It seems odd that they'd suggest laser surgery and trach tubes before testing the type of apnea it was, but as you're asking how one can tell, I do have to wonder.

George, I'm so sorry about Heidi. What a tiny error to be so tragic. T_T