Sleep Apnea Treatment

Question by : Could this just be Sleep Apnea?
Within the last two weeks, I have been feeling real confused and hazy, and tired, even when I get 8 hours of sleep. I am an active 16 year old male. My father does have sleep apnea, so I wouldn’t be surprised if I had it. I had blood work tested on a lot stuff, and it all came back normal. This feeling of being tired, hazy, and confused will go away, and then come back again. If I become more active, will it also help to make it go away? I seem to be sitting in the house a lot more also.

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Answer by Helen M
It could be sleep apnea. Being tired and confused would definitely fit. Do you have headaches when you wake up? You should probably see a sleep specialist and consider having a sleep study.

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Question by Shay: I just had a sleep study for sleep apnea….?
I had it done last night and they had me all wired up and monitored my brain waves, breathing, O2 levels, ect all night long. This morning they tole me that I started having “episodes” as the Dr. put it, as soon as I feel asleep and woke up off and on all night long, was only in REM sleep for less than 10 the whole night, my O2 levels kept dropping and I stopped breathing often. In a few days they are going to have me do another sleep study, except this time, put a CPAP mask on me. Are those uncomfortable? Do they seem to help? I’m so tired all the time and have a bad headache every morning because of this. Anyone else with this problem, I’d like whatever info you have, thanks.

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Answer by Ed
Yes the CPAP mask can be uncomfortable. If you have to get one, just ask
if you can get the one that just covers the nose.

It’ll definitely help you sleep and you’ll feel more rested once you get used to
wearing one.

Good luck.

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Question by Susana Sky: My health insurance company just rescinded my policy after I submitted claims.?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 Atheist Nun aka GenaneF: Just looking for an outsider’s viewpoint…are my husband and I incompatible/drifting apart?
Or is this normal crap from 5+ years of marriage?

Breif synopsis:

My husband and I have been married for about 5 1/2 years now, and at first, we were so into one another and in love. It seems this novelty wore off when we went through a bout with difficulty conceiving our only child together, about 2 years into the marriage. Things just haven’t been the same since then.

Now I realize we have little in common anymore. From music tastes to food tastes, and all points beyond and in between, we are as far apart as two people could have drifted. I daydream of meeting a man with passion, fire and drive. I feel so tapped out in this “arrangement” with him. I feel like I’m his mother and not his wife. I work part time, and he works full time. But, I do EVERYTHING. And, when I say everything, I mean wipe the baby’s ass, Cook breakfast, cook dinner, cook lunch, dust, mow the grass, clean the floors, do the laundry, arrange appointments for the kids and pets, remember said appointments and keep them, deal with my combat PTSD, handle own my VA appointments and counselings, vaccum, help my son with his homework, shop, pay bills, deal with contractors and basically I parent both kids alone for the most part ( I have an older son from my previous marriage).

I feel like a single parent of three kids instead of a married woman with 2 kids and husband. To his defense, he does have severe back problems and sleep apnea. I don’t expect him to move mountains up in here, just to help me, and do something more than sit on his ass at the computer playing PC games and twiddling his balls soon as he gets home, and/or watching HOUSE or CSI while I scurry about like a little crackhead doing everything. It’s making me so sick. My only true love is gone forever, and his memory haunts me like a ghost…but I just remember that those days are gone. Now I’m stuck with this lazy oaf who makes me so miserable… somedays I just want to run away with all my savings to Canada or Belgium or Japan or something and start over. Then I think about my kids, and it is like a bitter reality. I’m so unhappy.

He doesn’t stimulate my mind. Ever. He is so mundane and predictable and the only things he gets passionate about are WWE wrestling and beer. Ugh. The way he smells even irritates me. I’ve kept myself up while he’s just fell to the wayside and when I try and wear sexy things he’s rather rendez-vous with the Serta and the mink blankets and start calling the hogs. I haven’t got any good rest in years because of his sleep issues and his snoring, even the night I had the baby in the hospital, he slept on the guest pullout and SNORED all night. Ok, now I’m rambling but I’m so at my wits end.

I cry in the shower and bathroom every day almost and probably drink more than I should. I don’t know i something like this can be fixed. What do you think??? Honestly, if I could give my force to another so that they could live, like some poor kid with leukemia whose parents pray for them to recover daily…I would. And I would expire in their place, because my life just sucks so bad. I’m not even scared to die anymore.
Let’s think..you can shove off and troll someone else.
He just (praise the heavens and stars) got a CPAP machine a few days ago, and so far, things are well on that front.

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Answer by Gourmet Flossie
I think that the best outside that could help you would be a therapist, it sound as though you are badly depressed and you need to get right down to the reason of it. I suggest that you go on your own, at least for a few sessions before marriage counselling.

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Question by Keirra: Is it sleep apnea or just anxiety?
I was taking oxazepam for panic attacks, general anxiety disorder, and insomnia, but I ran out before I could go to the doctor to get some more. I still have 5 days to go before I can get some more. 3 or 4 days after running out (and hardly sleeping!) I began to get more and more panic attacks, then something else happened, when I lay down to go to bed I get short of breath, and I don’t know how else to put it besides I ‘forget to breath’. Right as I start to drift off I bolt up gasping for air.

I don’t quite think it’s sleep apnea because I have no problem staying asleep once I do fall asleep, I don’t have those symptoms when I try to sleep during the day (mostly), it seems to happen when I get over tired, and the shortness of breath is also there when I’m awake just doing every day things. The only thing that seems to help is distracting myself or trying to calm myself down.

Do you think it’s sleep apnea or just caused by withdrawal/anxiety? I don’t want to get tested for sleep apnea unless there’s actually a chance I might have it.

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Answer by pooja m
http://helpguide.org/life/sleep_apnea.htm…

consult a specialist if ur problem is bothering u…BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY

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