Less Costly Treatment for Sleep Apnea Successfully Researched »
Posted By SenorCoconut 9 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsAccording to national health statistics, nearly 38,000 cardiovascular deaths annually are in some way related to sleep apnea.
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cowboygrandpa9 months, 3 weeks ago
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SenorCoconut:
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You know this may sound like it is ridculous. But my wife God Bless her snores terribly and sounds like she is fighting for air. I have been told that it is very likely she suffers from sleep apnea.
That is why I am up so late at night. I listen to her and gently wake, or nudge her to roll over on her side, when I hear her fighting for air. It scares the hell out of me. With all she has wrong with her, including a leaky heart valve I'm just afraid that her strugling for breath is not good on her heart.
What I did is to get another pillow and raise her head so she is not at such a flat angle. She told me she is sleping better and I have noticed that her snoring is much less pronounced.
I really think it has something to do with her throat closing off and the angle she lays at. When she is on her side. She sleeps much better as well.
Does that make any since to ya ???
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SenorCoconut9 months, 3 weeks ago
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CG, that definitely makes sense to me.
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I also have a problem with snoring, to the extent that I need to sleep with a contoured pillow that alters the angle of my head, and yes, sleeping on my side eliminates snoring completely. It's good that get your wife to sleep on her side, my ex would do that for me, but now that I'm single I'm not entirely sure what goes on with my snoring.
People who snore do not necessarily have obstructive sleep apnea, sleep apnea is characterized by one or more pauses in breathing that can last seconds or minutes. Normal breathing can sometimes start again with a loud snorting or choking sound.
This article gives some more info on snoring:
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lvrofwolves9 months, 3 weeks ago
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cowboygrandpa, most often it is a spouse that knows about a spouse having sleep disorders, which also cause you to have your own. Lack of sleep and fighting for breath puts a tremendous amount of stress on the heart. I bet your wife is tired all the time and if she has sleep apnea it is because her body is working very hard to maintain breathing when she is 'sleeping' please take her to see a sleep specialist, even tho it sounds like it is better, maybe it is not enough. I think you would be doing her and yourself a great favor if she saw a Dr. lack of sleep might not seem serious, but it is.
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take care!
You too Senor, now that you sleep alone, you do not know so much about how you are when asleep.
Please guys, take this seriously!
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fsev419 months, 3 weeks ago
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Good article Sir CoCo. I can relate as I suffer from sleep apnea and use a CPAP. The major point in the article seems to be that expensive, doctor based solutions may not be the most cost effective. My experience nine years ago started with a sleep study in a hospital. A nurse did all the hook-up and monitoring but when the prescription for the CPAP came through it was signed by an MD whom I had never seen. I'm sure the doc got a hefty fee to glance at the test results and sign his/her name to the script. Yes, the same result would have been possible without the doctor's signature and in a non-hospital outpatient type set up.
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This is also a good argument for the provisions in the recent stimulus bill that call for compilation and analysis of diagnostic and treatment effectiveness in medicine so that we aren't spending way more for treatment than is needed for effectiveness. -
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Georgia509 months, 3 weeks ago
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If your mate tells you that your breathing is labored at night, you need to have a sleep study done. A good REM sleep is key to the body's rejuvenation. The absence of rejuvenation touches on general health and about every organ of the body. Over the long term, an incredible array of symptoms can emerge, many eventually leading to premature death.
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Here's a clue: if you're at work by 7 or 8 am, and your eyes feel like freeweights around 3 pm--often accompanied by dozing off--you're not getting the sleep you need. -
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ls2639 months, 3 weeks ago
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Never had sleep apnea until I gained 20 pounds a few years back. I was always at a healthy weight according to the doctor's BMI index before that. I read an article that said being overweight, not even necessarily obese, could be a cause of this sleep disorder. First I started walking between 2-4 miles a day. That helped some even without weight loss on the scale. Fresh air seemed to be one key. Then as I started to lose weight, I found I could sleep on my back without waking up and gasping for air. The more weight I lost, the better I slept. I didn't think about it again until I got laid off this fall and was depressed and started gaining weight again. The disorder returned, so I lost the additional weight, got outside more even in the winter and I am fine again. This may not be the only cause, but just last week my local newspaper stated that even losing 5 pounds can help some according to a recent study. Being overweight seemed to have caused mine.
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SenorCoconut9 months, 3 weeks ago
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Thanks for your input Is263, here is an excerpt from a study:
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"The prospective, randomized trial found that, in 81 patients with mild obstructive sleep apnea, the 40 patients who were in the intervention arm underwent a diet that strictly limited caloric intake combined with lifestyle counseling lost more than 20 pounds on average in a year—and kept it off, resulting in markedly lower symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea."
Another worthy mention is the development of a device that is less cumbersome than the CPAP, there is an article about it here:
http://www.elements4health.com/small-device-helps-...
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