I WAS DIAGNOSED IN 2001 WITH SLEEP APNEA AND RECEIVED A C PAP MACHINE. IT QUIT WORKING AND NOW THAT I AM RETIRED, JUST WANTED TO KNOW HOW TO GO ABOUT GETTING ANOTHER C PAP MACHINE SO I CAN REST AND SLEEP AT NIGHT. THANKS

OK, I already posted this in the toddler section, but I seem to get more responses here in newborn and baby, and lots of you have more than one child, so here goes…We have noticed my son has snored heavily since about 12 months, he is now 15 months. Sometimes he also coughs in his sleep. He sleeps a lot,like kid his age should, but he is generally a really happy kid and plays pretty hard so he doesn’t seem to be hurting for sleep. However, I have noticed lately he wakes up still seeming pretty tired for a 1/2 hour or so, and he frequently wakes briefly in the wee hours of the night, bawls for a minute and is back to sleep before I can check on him.
Oh, yeah he is prone to colds and allergies, had to have tubes at 7 months, he had awful recurring ear infections, he almost always has a runny nose-our pediatricians still disagree whether its allergies, some blame it all on daycare, but he has had a runny nose almost from day one. I suffer from allergies and we live in an area known for allergens.
He turned 15 months on March 27, and has 16 teeth, so if teething make your nose run, maybe thats a factor? I know there’s disagreement on that one, too. Oh, and he is tiny weight wise, average height but below the chart for weight, so its not a weight issue.
Sorry this is so long, just wondering if anyone had an experience with nsoring or sleep apnea in their little ones, what were the symptoms, outcomes, etc
He has his 15 month checkup in 11 days, so I am planning on addressing it with his pediatrician.
Thanks.
The tubes cleared up his ear infections, thankfully, but yes, he seems to have perpetual colds, even though he was breastfed the first year.
He doesn’t wake every night, but at least maybe 2X/week.
The tubes cleared up his ear infections, thankfully, but yes, he seems to have perpetual colds, even though he was breastfed the first year.
He doesn’t wake every night, but at least maybe 2X/week.
Thanks guys.
Since he already has an ENT for his ears, I went ahead and got an appointment for him tommorow with the specialist-I figured the doctor would just refer him so I’d skip the middle man!
I feel much better!

Has any one had the surgery for obstructive sleep apnea. Were thay cut your soft pallet, your uvula, and tonsils. If you have had it or know some one that has. Did it help. And what was the recovery. Did it change your voice. And any think els I should know before I go get cut up.

i have been doing this for years but it seem like it is getting worse whenever i am sleeping sometimes i stop breathing and i wake up gasping for air i have had surgery a few times so that is how i found out about sleep apnea but i though that people who had sleep apnea needed machines so if i had it i would know but maybe i am just ignorant of what sleep apnea is can anyway tell me what is wrong with me?
when i say i had surgery i did not mean for sleep apnea i just mean surgery period before people usually cut you up they ask if you have it

They want to run more tests but I have been with out that machine for days now, and I can tell a difference. I am so tired.
What can I do until I get a CPAP to sleep with, that I won’t be so tired?
I do not have obstructive but central sleep apnea.
I can really tell a difference in my energy when I use the CPAP. I contacted the DR but ehy want me to wait until I have taken more tests.

Now for some information. I recently underwent a sleep study for sleep apnea and after being sleep deprived for most of my adult life (I am 46) I am now using a CPAP machine. Since beginning this therapy I can’t sleep more than 6 hours per night and usually only 5. I awake refreshed and need no more sleep throughout the day. Is this common for people who begin using CPAP machines and will I require more sleep as time goes on. I have been using this for 6 months.
If you are using CPAP therapy I would appreciate your answers.

In which companiese, I can buy sleep apnea treament CPAP machine? Please list the CPAP dealers with company website so that I can compare the price and service. Million thanks!!
In which shop is better to buy CPAP machine in the USA

I want to get a CPAP, I’ve been diagnosed with Sleep Apnea, but I couldn’t make the appointment for them to find my correct pressure setting. How important is it to know that pressure setting? I want to buy my own CPAP machine but I don’t know what pressure to set it at.

Sometimes I’ll sleep for about 10-12 hours if I’m allowed to. Then when I’m in school I get an overpowering urge to fall asleep. By that I mean sometimes I’m fighting to stay awake and other times I’m listening to a lecture and suddenly it’s an hour later. Other sleep related conditions I have are Insomnia and Sleep Apnea.

Could I have hypersomnia? What are the exact symptoms of it? Is there a way to treat it?

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I am concerned. I was previously diagnosed with severe sleep apnea. I underwent surgery about 3.5 years ago. I was not the typical patient as I was only 29yo and not severely overweight. Apparently I had very large tonsels and a deviated septum that resulted in approx. 375 nightly arrousals. I used to get up 4-8 times a night to use the bathroom. The surgery seemed like a dream come true to me. My follow-up sleep study showed me to be cured and the night time bathroom trips went down to 1 or 2, which I could live with. I also lost a good amount of weight and my thinking and memory were much clearer. However, my sleeping has become not as restfull as it was and my nighttime bathroom visits have increased to 3 or 4, which is starting to scare me. My weight has also increased. Any thoughts as to what I should try? I wonder if the surgery helped but didnt completely treat the sleep apnea. The weight increase seemed to increase the bathroom visits. I am a 32yo male, athletic build, 5′6" 192lb (was down to 175lbs and feeling great). Will losing weight help reduce the symptoms? Why do I urinate so often? I was tested for diabetes isipidus and bladder volume etc, no problems. Any help is appreciated!!!

My father has Obstructive Sleep Apnea and will be going in for a sleep study soon so I am looking at CPAP Machines and doing research.

My father came across an add for this "Oral Appliance Therapy" thing and I am wondering if you have any info on if it works or if it is a scam.

Oral Appliance Therapy

http://www.tiredofcpap.com/

I’m looking at the CPAP Machines and if you could share your stories with me, I would greatly appreciate it!
Obstructive Sleep Apnea Info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstructive_Sleep_Apnea

I just started recently, in the last month it has happened about 3 times. I dont have insurrance that would cover this for going to the doctor so i want that to be a last resort. I am a heavier set male, and my first thought was diabites but i have not had any other symptoms. Also, i was diagonosed with sleep apnea, but i never was able to get the machine for it. I also have been dealing with alot of congestion and difficulty breathing during the day….like i said any suggestions with out having to see a doc. would be good. Thanks,
Tom
I do have insurance it just doesn’t cover things like this…

ok 1st thing 1st my son from the time he popped outta me (feb.2 08) he screamed and screamed wouldnt eat we took him home all he did was scream he’d NEVER get up to eat! after 2 weeks at home all the screaming stopped…just when we thought he calmed down….when he was 2 months the screaming started up again so we took him to the dr.s she suggested xrays and catscans well when the xrays came back he had mulpitle fractures all in various stages of healing and a few already healed…well anyways right on the spot they arrested my hubby threw him in jail of feb this year our son is 2 now and after 2 whole years ive found out he has a weak heart asthma sleep apnea high liver muscle enzymes and other problems.
**the documents from the hospital said "these injurys for a 2month old is rather unusual and further medical treatment and investagation is neccesary"

so was my hubby falsely accused????

I have been diagnosed with sleep apnea and have been using a cpap machine for about a year and a half. Since that time I have not slept longer than 7 hours a night and most nights I only sleep 5 or 6 hours. Is this normal for people most people using this type of therapy?

I did a sleep study for my doctor because he thought I had sleep apnea. Well I did it, and the sleep apnea doctor called me back the same night after I did it, and told me I had Mild sleep apnea, but his concern was with my low oxygen levels. He said he wanted me to stay at my house and sleep with a cpap machine and check my oxygen levels for a night, and he said my doctor would call me back or the company that does the equipment, well low and behold noone calls me for over a month, so I called the office and they said they hadn’t received the results yet. So anyway I had to take my daughter to the same doctor today and while I was there I asked him if he received the results yet, and he told me to ask the office girls? (what a doctor) so I go out there and ask the office workers if they received them, well low and behold they had received them the day after I had it done, and the doctor I guess just doesn’t look at his patients info when it is faxed in. I guess the dumb office workers just glance at it and file. So anyways they gave me a copy of this fax and the sleep doctor has all this stuff he suggests that my doctor do like have done what he told me with the cpap machine, and also maybe look into surgury, and he suggested a pulmonary and cardiac evaluation since I’m only 30. I don’t understand why my doctor just doesn’t do anything about this, The sleep doctor said on this report my lowest saturation of sleep oxygen was reduced to 63.1%. I think that is pretty bad. I have trouble breathing when I try to go to sleep without taking something to sleep, because when I take something I don’t have to think about it, I just get zonked out. What should I do? I want to defiantly change doctors, but can he get in trouble for this, or since this doctor just suggested it would it not matter. I feel so uncared for at this doctors office, why have me do a sleep study and not even look at my results. Someone please give me info and advice I need so badly. If I change doctors and give them these results will the insurance still go by them and let my new doctor help me?

___ out of ____ people die from severe sleep apnea. (or any other statistics about mortality rate)

what is the life expectancy with proper treatment?

When I try to describe my symptoms, my parents don’t believe me. They sound kind of similar to sleep apnea, but with a few differences.

At least once a week, I wake up in the middle of the night and I can’t catch my breath. My body is having a "pins-and-needles" tingling sensation all over and sometimes my jaw is trembling violently. I can’t move any part of my entire body. I can’t open my eyes or yell for help or anything as hard as I try.

The scary part that nobody believes is: during all of this, I’m having nightmares/hallucinations that there are ghosts or a stranger in my room. The tingling sensation causes me to dream that there are bugs or sometimes rats crawling all over me. The dreams are like I can see through my closed eyelids, even though I can’t open them. I can see the room that I went to sleep in perfectly; it looks the same as it does when I open my eyes. The realness of it is very terrifying.

After I try long enough, my jaw stops shaking, and I start breathing normally again, I try to vocalize but usually all that comes out are very quiet screechy sounds.
After a few minutes I can open my eyes and blink and then eventually move my limbs again.

Any additional information that might be needed is that I am a 17 year old female. I am healthy; I have no major health problems that I know of. This has been happening since I was around 14, but it has been happening very, very often throughout the passed 6 months or so.

I’d really like to get an idea of what’s going on. I’m pretty sure it’s sleep apnea, but since my parents don’t seem to think so, it would be nice to get another opinion.

Oh, and 10 points to the most helpful answer (:

My best friend (age 52) had a heart attack 2 years ago. After that time, he quit smoking, but refused to follow any of the other medical advice given to him.
In the past year, he has gained about 100 lbs, he has pitting edema in his arms and legs, abdominal distention, shortness of breath, crackles and wheezes when laying down, suffers from long periods of sleep apnea, has clubbing of his fingernails, pale skin, he sweats profusely after little exertion, he can only walk 100 feet before having to take a rest, and his resting pulse averages about 100 beats per minute. He is on blood pressure medicine, though his pressure is all over the place even with the meds.
Due to his prior heart attack, he has a stress test every year, and he just had one in July which said everything was okay.
But, being a nursing student, I see the signs of impending doom, I don’t know why the stress test would be inaccurate, but why would a doctor dismiss all the signs and symptoms because one test was okay? I have insisted to my friend to go for a second opinion, but he trusts his doctor and flat out refuses to believe that anything is wrong.
So, am I correct that this is right sided heart failure? How long can these symptoms go on before he has major damage? What exactly will happen if he doesn’t get treatment (besides the obvious answer of death)?

I have recently been diagnosed with sleep apnea and just got a CPAP machine. It’s taking some getting used to, and I have used it only during the day so far when I’m awake. Hopefully, I’ll get used to it soon and will be able to use it when sleeping.

My question: What benefits did you users notice? I have extreme daytime fatigue and often feel like I’m functioning at only about 50% cognitively. Do you feel more alert and focused from improved quality of sleep with the CPAP?
I just got the CPAP today. I spent about half an hour with the mask, with the technician monitoring and giving me instructions and etc. When I had my last sleep test, I spent some time awake with it on, and managed to sleep a few hours with it.

I’m not accustomed to anything on or near my face when I’m sleeping, and I have to stay pretty much in one position.

I plan to try to sleep with it tomorrow night. It’s not like I’ve had it for months and am refusing to use it! It’s just new and foreign to me.

I was diagnosed with sleep apnea last year after having 2 sleep study testing done , I got put on a cpap machine and tried every mask u could Imaging. I would pull it off somewhere thew the night. I went to see the sleep dr last week and he said that i have a very mild case of apnea and would like me to try this anti snore shirt from rem-a- tee. Its a belt that wraps around as high as you can get it under your arms and comfortable and snug as you can get it with three pouches in the back your blow up theses 3 inflatable bumpers and put them in each pouch, u have to lay on your side, and it stops u from rolling on to your back , and if u do roll on it in a deep sleep your back is in so much pain the next day and your hip hurts to, i been doing some searching on the computer for other devices, there’s 2 that im checking out ones a mouth piece that u use which some people say hurts your lower jaw,, than there this one its called the jaw strap where you wear it strap over head and jaw both have testimonies that said they work? does anyone have this problem and ran into anything that didn’t hurt are annoyed you like the cpap machine and all that crap on your face.

so my dad has severe sleep apnea. its mixed apnea (obstructive and central) and he has episodes 70 times a night. he uses a machine (CPAP or BiPAP) to breathe.

what does this mean? will he be okay? is his life in danger?

I have severe sleep apnea. I sleep with a CPAP (continous positive airways pressure) machine. It works great, but my nose tickles several times in the middle of the night! I have to turn it off and scratch my nose before i can go back to sleep. What can i do to stop the ticleing????
The tickle is on the outside of my nose, not inside.

My dad has recently been diagnosed with Sleep apnea and is using a CPAP machine at night. He’s been having a hard time sleeping with it and so I wanted to get him something to help make it easier for him sleep. Does anyone have any suggestions on what may make it easier for him? I was thinking of getting a noise machine to help him relax and take his mind off of the mask on his face; would that help at all?

My mum has recently been diagnosed with diabetes (within the past few years), and has a weight problem that seems to be causing sleep apnea. Despite this, she still eats sugary and fatty foods on a daily basis (for example she will sit down and eat a whole packet of chocolate biscuits by herself while watching tv.

Im really worried because she has a history of cancer in her family (her mum and dad both died of cancer). She doesnt seem to care at all about her health. Every time i try to talk to her about it she yells at me and tells me how shes had a weight problem all her life and she cant change it now. She says its too hard.

I dont know what to do or what to say because everytime i talk to her about it she yells at me and gives me the silent treatment until shes sure i wont bring it up again.

Please give me some ideas as to what i can do. Im out of ideas.

Thanks,
Andrew

I have a serious medical issue that has not been resolved and it is slowing getting worse. It started about 2.5 years ago not too long after a car accident where i would be sleeping and wake up with a severely dry throat. I would and still do wake up 2 to 10 times a night and i have water next to my bed to take care od the dryness. Now it feels like theres something in the back of my throat yet ive never coughed something up ever. Last couple months i have had a slight cough and i have to clear my throat sometimes. 1st doctor i saw had an xray done of my throat as well as sleep apnea test. The sleep apnea test i only got 1 hour of sleep so naturally they didnt find anything wrong. But either way i dont snore which is common among people with sleep apnea. 2nd doctor was nose and throat specialist who thinks i have acid reflux yet i dont have a history of heart burn. im taking pills for it but it just gives me gas with no reief of my symptoms.