My husband is being tested tonight for sleep apnea. What happens at a sleep clinic? How do you get any sleep? Is it a comfortable place?

i know i have severe sleep apnea because i had a mono which gave me a bad case of tonsillitis and i was trying to figure out why i couldn’t sleep for the past month, so can i call my regualr doctor as an emergency to get a cpap machine or do i have to wait until i schedule a sleep study?

My mother was diagnosed as bipolar about 5 years ago, after I had been out of her home several years. Previous diagnoses include depression, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, hypothyroidism, chronic insomnia, sleep apnea & hypoglycemia. She has visited half a dozen doctors to get these diagnoses. She continually cycles through taking medicine from 1 doctor as prescribed, to taking medicine from several docs who do not know she is doctor shopping, to all-herbal(and I mean like, 20 – 30 different supplements a day), to no medicine.
With each new diagnosis/treatment, she seems to believe that she has turned a corner. If I try to talk to her about behaviors that seem harmful, she becomes too tearful and sleepy to talk. Recently, she has done some very hurtful things. I’m beyond trying to confront her about it.
Does anyone have a similar situation that turned out well? I keep hoping for the best, but her behavior gets more erratic and hurtful as time goes by.

A female friend of mine has Sleep Apnea, about two years now. Shes short, 5′ 2" and is 35 lbs overweight. She lost her health insurance due to a work related accident and can no longer work. Right now she has no income. She did the sleep study test when she had insurance and now has the breathing machine, but the mask has been broken for about 16 months and cannot afford a new one. 0. People die from this right? She’s preparing for the worse. She’s only 56.

I was diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea in October 2003. I have been using a CPAP machine ever since. I started out at an air pressure of 9, but over time ended up at a pressure of 14. Back in January of this year (2007), I began following a steady exercise program and lost fifteen pounds. My doctor had me re-evaluated through another sleep study, and my pressure was reduced to the original pressure of 9. I am sleeping better and feeling better. I view my sleep apnea as being a result of my overweight body, and because I was able to lower my pressure through exercise and weight loss, is it possible to "cure" my sleep apnea if I keep on exercising and losing weight?
I didn’t think about it before, but there a probably people reading my question who don’t know what sleep apnea is, much less what a CPAP is. Here are a couple a links: http://www.sleepdisorderchannel.com/osa/

http://www.entnet.org/healthinfo/snoring/cpap.cfm

Yes, I still have my tonsils. The doctor I see for my sleep apnea has not mentioned my tonsils as being part of the problem. He mostly centers on weight loss and is happy whenever I report any amount of loss. He’s very encouraging.

i love to sleep. i always sleep but i used to LOVE it lol. as sad as it may sound. but anyway…for as far back as i remember i would nap during the day. i didn’t HAVE to nap but i would. a 15-30 min nap would do wonders for me. but recently i have been HAVING to sleep and get tired during the day. i have been diagnosed with sleep apnea and use a treatment for that which they have tested on me and they say it works.

lately in the past few months ive just been extreamly exhausted. i need to take naps during the day or else i can’t function. i often get very sleepy while driving or sitting for more than 20 min. when i get home from work and school i have to take a nap which now lasts about 2 hours. its annoying that im always so tired because i have things to do and im just to exhausted to do them! i sleep about 6 hours a night and often when i sleep more the symptoms worsen. what can i do? do u think its diabetes??? im worried! :(
i was involved in a sleep study where i was able to get benefit from nose strip kind of things. they hooked me up and they work just like the CPAP maching,where they helped my breathing while asleep.

Otherwise a fit individual, I have sleep apnea, I am not over weight as many are with this problem. I also have ADD and diabetes..does anyone know if there is a drug that can be taken to relieve at least some of the chronic fatigue caused by there problems. I have heard vitamin B12 shots helps some people. Is the re a B12 injection that you can administer to yourself at home daily as prescribed by a doctor? Diet? Vitamins? any help from thos of you that have chronic fatique regardless of the reason would be appreciated…

What usually happens at a cosulation for "sleep apnea". I have problems breathing at night, and I wake up sometimes gasping for air ! It doesn’t happen every night. Also if the doctor does order a sleep test, what if my breathing is fine that night, is there any other way they can tell I might have a sleeping problem if it doesn’t happen "Every Night" THANKS SO MUCH!

Yea Stay up 24 hours Every day and im like 14 Idk its like my body doesnt need as much sleep as other people.

I notice I have been sleeping a lot, I was diagnosed with sleep apnea and been using the cipap machine however its been over 2 weeks and I haven’t seen any results, now I am starting to think its chronic fatigue syndrome. How do i know if i have it? and what are the symptoms?

Can you still get term life insurance if you have been diagnosed with sleep apnea? If so, will this increase the cost of the insurance?

my boyfriend is having a sleep study done and says it is going to take from friday at 6 to possibly monday morning. is this possible? i thought it was just an over night thing.

I am 460 lbs. I have Type II non-insulin dependant Diabetes, hypertension, obstructive sleep apnea, and hypersplenia.

I was scheduled for Gastric Bypass surgery on April 5th, 2007 but they aborted the operation due to the esophageal varices. The GI specialist that my bariatric surgeon sent me to says there in NO TREATMENT. Yet my surgeon will not allow a second opinion. Please leave any advice you have.

I have a cipap machine for my sleep apnea and I also had a nasal mask for it. When I got it I forgot to mention that I had allergies and its causing me to breathe out of my mouth. What should I do about this? There a cheaper way of fixing this, because a full face mask would cost me 300 dollers.
I tried using it the other day and I couldn’t because it was hard to breathe and was losing lot of the pressure, because I couldn’t breathe out from my nose.
The other thing I noticed was my cipap machine has a humidifier and when its activiated its even harder to breathe cause it does trigger my allergies and makes my nose very congested. What do I do about that?

I don’t know if i have sleep apnea.
but i do have a dry mouth in the morning which
is a symptom of sleep apnea.
Should i sleep because i’m not sure
if i have it and like if i do then its life
threatning

My three year old niece was sent to a sleep clinic because sleep apnea was suspected. After the test the nurse told her mother she saw no signs of it. A few days later she received a call that she must come in April 9 to discuss some serious results. My niece has a heart murmur so we’re wondering if the test could have detected problems with her heat.

I have the machine and have used it now for about 5 days. However, I have been waking up with a horrible headache about 4am the last 3 days. I have the humidifier on the machine and was wondering if maybe I need to move it up a notch?? Since this is all so new to me I have no idea what is causing the headaches. Its sooo bad I cant go back to sleep with the mask on.

I am soon going to the sleep clinic. I will not wear that mask, the one with the compressor… I refuse. What other options are there for sleep apneaians? I have heard there are surgery options, has anyone been through that with good effects? I want to be prepared to discuss my options. Yes, I have read the options, I just want others opinions who have been through it. Thanks so much!

My husband is constantly complaining that he doesn’t sleep, or doesn’t sleep well. I know that he is sleeping because I wake up and he is snoring. Or son has woke up many times screaming from a nightmare, and my husband never wakes up. He is in the other room, but still gets very loud. I sometimes have to bring him in the bed with my husband and I, and my husband still never wakes up. Is this a mental thing, or does he have some sort of sleep disorder?

When I go to sleep, sometimes I wake up and when I do wake up, I feel that i have no oxygen in my body, little dehydrated, catching for a breathe because I feel discomforted a lttle but. Sometimes I feel that i am little unconsious, not too dizzy though.. trying to get more oxygen by taking a deep breathe due to weird symptom.. I dont think it is sleep apnea because I am physically fit.. weight l40lbs and my height is 5 feet 6. if it is not sleep apnea? what would it be? feeling that I have no oxygen, taking a deep breathe to feel better? in my body? head? It occurs times to times these days? how can it be treated?

How many of you use, or know someone who uses a CPAP machine at night to help them breathe and not to snore?

I am very curious about this, since CPAPs save lives all over the world. I think we all need more education on CPAP machines, and we need to spread the word that if people snore or stop breathing at night, they should have a sleep study done.

Sleep Apnea causes high blood pressure, can cause strokes and heart attacks. It sometimes makes people have heartburn at night, and makes them sleepy during the day. People can become forgetful or irritated. This is just a short list of all the damage that having untreated sleep apnea can cause.

Has anyone ever found out that they had sleep apnea through taking the sleep study? Is a Cpap always the recommended treatment? What other treatments are there? Has anyone found out what their sleeping problem was and felt 100x times better? Has it changed anyone’s life for the better? I have one coming up next Friday. I have been tired for as long as I can remember. I should have done this a long time ago. It has come in between everything in my life…friends, family, work, etc. I hope I can find some answers and start living a normal life and not feel tired every single day of my life!

I have moderate obstructive and central sleep apnea. My blood oxygen levels according to sleep study dropped down to 60. I tried the CPAP machine for a couple of months and finally gave up. And I can’t sleep with that dental appliance either. BTW I am tall and very thin, medically I would be considerated underweight.

I am looking to buy a pulse oxyimeter with alarm that would wake me when my oxygen gets too low, like below 80. Do you think this would work? Where is a good place to buy one?
Thanks.

I’ve had my period for 18 years and it has never been regular. When I was younger I would go for months at a time with nothing, and during the past couple of years it never seems to stop.

I went to the gynecologist yesterday (yay for medical insurance) and was told I have PCOS. He then told me I could look up information about it online. Which of course freaks me out because I see one of the symptoms as being infertility.

Basically, what I’m wondering is how likely is it that I’ll be able to become pregnant? Has anyone else had the cycle issues for this long and been able to have children?

Also, has anyone heard of or experienced sleep apnea with PCOS? I read somewhere that sleep apnea can be a symptom and am just curious.