Sleep Apnea Treatment

Question by Bubbles: C-section on Friday and I have developed sleep apnea in the past few days…I’m afraid I’ll quit breathing???
I am very, very pregnant and will be going in for a c-section on Friday. I have recently developed sleep apnea from what I can tell. I wake up gasping for air, feeling as if my heart has stopped, and typically right in the middle of a huge snore (thank God my husband doesn’t have to sleep next to me right now). After a little surfing on the net, I’ve decided it is sleep apnea. I’m really huge with this baby, I have acid reflux now, some nasal problems, and I snore.

What I’m worried about is after the c-section they will put me under to sew me up. I’m afraid I will quit breathing and no one will notice. I suppose that is pretty silly since the anethisiologist will need to be right there during the surgery, but I’m still apprehensive.

Should I call the hospital surgery admissions and ask about this? Or just talk to the anethisiologist before surgery? Maybe I should call my OB..though I have an appointment on Thursday.
This will be my third c-section so I know what they will do. I’m not scared of the surgery. I’m apprehensive about the breathing issue.

Best answer:

Answer by joannm32@sbcglobal.net
I wonder why you think they will put you to sleep to sew you up when they didn’t put you to sleep to cut you wide open??? If they do put you to sleep they will have a tube down your throat and will breathe for you….so don’t worry, they know how to handle it. Work hard after the birth, as apnea is associated w/overweight….the throat has extra fat and blocks the airways, same w/snoring. Overweight.

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Ok, I’m going to have a wisdom tooth cut out of my head, and I have sleep apnea.
Which means, every minute or so, my throat closes, and after a minute or so, my brain says “hey idiot, you’re suffocating” and I gasp and get a breath of air.
All this happens without me waking up. I have a CPAP machine, but I can’t use that while someone’s operating in my mouth.

So if I’m put under anesthesia, won’t that mean that my brain will be too out of it to wake me up? If this happens, my heart will stop, because I won’t be breathing. Do they put a tube down my windpipe to keep it open?
I’m serious, how does this work?
Is this possibly the explanation for people who die during routine surgeries for no apparent reason?
I’m very afraid here, and I keep hearing “oh, I’m sure it will be fine” from people, but nobody can tell me WHY it should be fine.
… No, I can’t have CPAP on during oral surgery, because for CPAP to work, you can’t have your mouth open.
It’s the pressure from the closed system that keeps your throat open. Having my mouth open, would be like deflating a balloon, which is how CPAP works.

I know I already posted this but i’m posting it again so I will have more than 2 good answers.
have only been getting about 3-4 hrs. of sleep for the past 3 months. I’m 13 and I know how much sleep your supposed to get when your a teen. Now i’m starting to show symptoms of sleep loss the first is #1 I always fall asleep in the middle of school even if were doing something interesting, I can’t help it. #2 I’m doing really bad in gym wich I used to be good at. #3 When I come home I always collapse on my bed and fall asleep imidiatley and it’s really hard to wake up. (fainting, maybe?) but my mom won’t let me anymore. #4 I’ve been thinking really weird things, and i’m amigining, seing, and sometimes even hearing things. I’m afraid of things that i’ve never been afraid of. I have also been crying because im always so sleepy. Some say that things that happened in the past can result in sleep disorders, even if they are not scary. If this si true then my dad had a brain tumor wich messed up his brain 4 yrs ago, my parents are divorced now. Wat I wan’t to know is what are some common sleep disorders among teens, I have never known why but the sleeping has always made me feel scared and vunurable when i’m in bed and it feels like if I close my eyes when I open them there will be something scary right in my face. Now that i’m imaganing this stuff is just scaring me more. My other question is what should I do about this? I asked my mom about going to the doctor but she said I was being stupid and most people who claim to have sleep disoreders are over reacting, and she won’t let me sleep in her room because a 13 yr old is to old to be sleeping in their parents room. I also know 2 people with sleeping disorders and I want to use the information to help them too. Tnks for reading, bye