Sleep Apnea Treatment

Question by Susana Sky: My health insurance company just rescinded my policy after I submitted claims.?
I applied for an individual health policy and in good faith signed that the information was complete to the best of my knowledge. I also consented to them acquiring any records necessary from my providers. I then had an emergency heart event that resulted in $ 20k+ claims. I then cancelled the policy after 5 months since I qualified for insurance through my employer. I just got a letter notifying me that I did not fully disclose all of my health history for the last 10 years on my application, therefore they are rescinding my policy as if it were never in effect. I am now facing $ 20k+ in bills and I am going to start the appeal process. How should I respond to the specific items they claim I did not disclose? One of them, for instance, is sleep apnea, which I was never diagnosed with and never received treatment for, but participated in a sleep study to see if I had it.

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Answer by src50
Ask for the specific information that they claim you failed to disclosure along with it’s source.

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Question by Chris: This is what makes you dream! i know they will add a question mark after this! lol! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
i already know

The discovery of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, a mentally active period during which dreaming occurs, provided a biological explanation for this phenomenon. It also inspired interest in sleep research by giving scientists a marker for changes in the brain during sleep. From this knowledge, they have begun to understand and develop treatments for major sleep disorders such as insomnia and sleep apnea.

Everyone sleeps. This fundamental activity consumes one-third of our lifetimes and can overpower all other needs. But what does sleep do for us? What happens when you are sleep deprived? What are sleep disorders?
Much of what is known about sleep stems from the groundbreaking 1953 discovery of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. This is an active period of sleep marked in humans by intense activity in the brain and rapid bursts of eye movements. At the same time, scientists discovered that REM sleep is when dreaming occurs.
Before the 1950s, most scientists thought of sleep as an unchanging, dormant period of little interest. Hardly anything was known about sleep or dreaming.
The earliest hints that sleep was a changing state came with studies showing that blood pressure, heart rate, and other body functions in humans rise and fall in a pattern during sleep. Because researchers had observed some eye movement during sleep, they recorded these movements by placing electrodes behind the eyes. They also recorded muscle activity and brain waves. They found regular periods of very rapid eye movement and rapidly changing brain waves that alternated with periods of deep, quiet, sleep marked by large, slow brain waves. Later, scientists found that the body is paralyzed during REM sleep.

The REM sleep discovery:

Suggested that sleep is a complex activity, fundamentally different from waking, but just as active.
Provided a biological marker for dreaming so that immediate dream reports could be collected.
Compelled scientists to examine the physiology of sleep.
When researchers woke people up during REM sleep and asked them about their dreams, they found that almost all who awakened during REM sleep could remember their dreams. They realized that people who claim they do not dream really do not remember their dreams the next morning. Also, scientists found that, rather than being fleeting events, dreams vary in length according to the length of REM period.
In later studies, scientists divided non-REM sleep into four stages, accounting for about 75 percent of total sleep. In each stage, brain waves become progressively larger and slower, and sleep becomes deeper. After reaching stage 4, the deepest period, the pattern reverses, and sleep becomes progressively lighter until REM sleep, the most active period, occurs. This cycle typically occurs about once every 90 minutes in humans.
Scientists found that brain activity during REM sleep begins in the pons, a structure in the brainstem, and neighboring midbrain regions. The pons sends signals to the thalamus and to the cerebral cortex, which is responsible for most thought processes. It also sends signals to turn off motor neurons in the spinal cord, causing a temporary paralysis that prevents movement.
Research on normal sleep led scientists to recognize and study sleep disorders, which afflict up to 70 million Americans. These disorders include insomnia, or difficulty in falling asleep, and sleep apnea, which causes breathing to stop for extended periods during sleep. These can cause behavior problems and accidents related to fatigue.
Once sleep disorders became recognized, scientists began to find treatments for them.
Almost everything known about the physiology of sleep has been learned by studying experimental animals. For example, scientists found that sleep phases are closely related to the activity of certain groups of nerve cells releasing brain chemicals that relay information from one neuron to another. Research on these specialized cell groups is helping scientists to devise specific drug treatments for sleep disorders.
Yet much remains to be uncovered. Exactly what sleep does for humans is unknown. Researchers are just beginning to unravel the mechanisms explaining why and how people nod off and wake up.

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Answer by Rei
oh … ok..

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Question by aggylu: Does anyone have a happily ever after story with their bipolar parent?
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.

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Answer by mjz321
Umm if you mean will she be cured and live happily ever after know that it WILL NOT ever happen. her syptons can be controlled but she will not be cured there will always be problems though she can certainly live a normal stable happy life

Dont confront her about her behaviors shes bipolar and probably embarrassed by her own lack of control and you are certainly not helping

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Question by Lillian: Apnea machine left disconnected after endoscopy procedure for at home recovery?
My husband is a good man, please understand this. However, I am very hurt. I had asked him after my endoscopy to please make sure the cpap machine was on me after I got home. I have severe obstructive sleep apnea and my oxygen can go down to 79% when I am not on cpap. So I had the endoscopy. Versed makes you forget a lot of things. I don’t even remember that I had dinner, or how I got to my room. All I know is that I woke up at midnight and no mask. The machine was in its bag on the floor. My husband is a smart man.However, this disease is very new to both of us. What have you all been told about post surgery and anesthesia with OSA? I want to write this so that hopefully should I have surgery next time and am sleepy when I get home, that he realizes this is serious business. I felt that my very important request was completely disregarded by him. He said he forgot. It is a forget that may have cost me dearly.

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Answer by HelpIzOnTWay
Versed can also cause slow, shallow breathing and it you have OSA to boot….

You question is well-written and correct. Maybe he just doesn’t understand the seriousness of your malady? I’m no expert on CPAP but I have worked with them and it seems like after your endoscopy is one time you really would not want to “forget” to use it.

Make sure that you two are on the same page with the CPAP, whether that means having your doc talk to him, getting him material to read….whatever it takes. Glad you’re ok but I can understand your concern!

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Question by Psyko323: Can I sleep on my side after corrective upper jaw surgery?
I’ve searched EVERYWHERE online for the answer, but all I find is stuff about sleep apnea and blah blah blah -.- I had corrective upper jaw surgery two weeks ago and my swelling has gone down completely. Sleeping on your back for two weeks can get pretty uncomfortable and I’m not even sure if I have to.. It’s too late to call my doctor and it’s 7:30 pm and I want to know in time to sleep, because it’s driving me crazy.. CAN I sleep on my side?

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Answer by Remy
As far as I know, nobody with upper jaw surgery complained about sleeping on the side after surgery. I never heard about this kind of restriction.

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