Sleep Apnea Treatment

Question by Mr. Pickle: Do you know anyone who uses a machine at night for sleep apnea called a c-pap or bi-pap machine ?

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Answer by angelcat
Yes. I have sleep apnea and use the cpap machine. Have been using it for almost 10 years now.

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Question by the ~maiden~ xanz: Does anyone else suffer from “Sleep paralysis”? Also called Hypnogogic Hallucinations?
I experience this just as I am falling asleep. I also have “lucid dreams” (where I can control the content of my dreams) and have since I was a child and they often happen together, especially when over tired. But the SP is terrifying as I seem to actually be awake, accurately perceiving the conditions around me (who is in the room, time of day, etc.) but also feel extreme terror and cannot wake. I always feel that if I could move, I could wake up, but of course that’s the problem. I’m told by some that this is actually a desired state by many as a step toward an OBE – which I think is garbage. But my question is how do I stop them? Is there some way to end them? I suffer from chronic pain – don’t say get more sleep – quite obvious, I need something else.I’ve tried to remember to BREATHE when it happens, being told that a lack of oxygen may be part of the problem, but was unable to make it work. Did try a new pillow, to keep my neck straight, in case apnea was it. HELP?
OMG…yes, i also have PTSD, but only quite slight, due to a severe childhood assault, but it’s quite far in the past and very well dealt with. Have had every kind of “scan” known to man – all normal and even a psychiatrist is somewhat baffled, tho he has seen it before. i do have sleep meds – i’m on the strongest dose of Chloral hydrate allowed, and i’m opiate dependent due to spinal disease – but the lucid dreams and the SP started as a child – long before any of these other problems. The drugs are on a very strict dosage and never vary (tho i rarely use the sleep meds), but the dream cycles do.

And if you peeked at my 360 page and made a judgment that my life was stressful by what you saw there, you would be quite wrong. A will liked, gentle artist, i enjoy the very limited company i choose very much – they also enjoy me (*wink). Sooooo…anything else?
Oh, and WILD, i also have to get up and move once i do awake or it does happen over and over all night, tho i don’t have the pins and needles but that might confirm what i heard about lack of oxygen (circulation, apnea even?).
And I’m sorry Sun T, but as an educated woman (a BSW) I have bothered to study this condition as well as the basic benefits of sleep. The site you were so kind to point to is about children and sleep and just the very basic information on what sleep is and how one goes about getting it. Your answer is simplistic almost to the point of being insulting. Perhaps you were trying to help, but there is more information in my question than your answer. I am looking for personal experience from someone with the same problem, not an oversimplified insult to my intelligence.

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Answer by Mark B
I have sleep paralysis for many years now. Never saw a doctor. But most of the time they come from high stress factors. So and try take a break if can. If you don’t think it is that, see a doctor, for sleep meds. As for I self medicate, with booze. or any CNS depressent helps me.

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Question by harleyy: i think i may have a disese called vitiligo and a sleep disorder how do i deal with all of this?

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Answer by corey
Weird combo. You can cure sleep disorders the natural way through diet and nutrition. It’s important you get the amino acid tryptophan so your brain can make serotonin. Another words, eat bananas. Make sure your getting sunlight during the day, this is essential for your body to be able to make melatonin, a hormone that lets you sleep. Also if you eat a high sugar/carbohydrate diet, this will really effect your sleep since sugar will deplete your serotonin and beta endorphin, along with caffiene.

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You can do it the chemical way. Taking antihistamines like diphnhydramine or doxylamine succinate will do the trick. You will eventually build a tolerance to them though. You can also go out and buy melatonin supplements. If you have access to benzodiazepines, then you will both get to sleep and have lots of fun.

As for vintiligo I have no idea how to cure it, but you can make it cosmetically unnoticable if you use dihydroxyacetone, the stuff that it is in sunless tanning lotions. That is the only safe way at least.

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Question by Trazy: what is the sleeping disorder called when u wake up screaming but than u go back to sleep like nothing happend?
it was in the movie bedtime storys.

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Answer by Janie
Night terrors

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I also read that taking your tonsils out helps. Any GOOD info will help. HELP