Sleep Apnea Treatment

Question by chad_mercure2001: sleep, exersice, enviroment related asthma?
Unbalanced Dysfunctional Breathing disorder, asthma sleep apnea gerds and sleep insomnia I like to get more information about asthma symptom while sleeping and at work and while exercising. polease help about my disorder i have. i have allergy asthma, gerds acid reflex, sleep apnea and insomia. I have breathing problem and gag reflexes get hot flashes dizzy spells extream headaches pounding headache throbbing headache and dizzy spell once a month. headache every day. cough every day i don’t smoke or do any drugs. little over weight and have breathing problem while sleeping please help. i was thining about getting an oxygen machine and mask to sleep with. WHat about falling asleep with a nebulizer and meds please help me understand what Unbalanced Dysfunctional Breathing disorder is. I had a spell yester day morning after a shower i got a hot flash and dizzy spell with headhace dry hacking gaging cough with the burps. I sat down and felt fine. WIth exersice induce asthma can i useoxygen

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Answer by HisServ
I’m not sure exactly what your question is, but I did find what seems to be a good website on Unbalanced Dysfunctional Breathing. I’ll post the link: http://www.breathing.com/articles/udb.htm

Also you mentioned something about sleep apnea. This is a disorder in which you stop breathing while you are sleeping for a period of somewhere between 10 secs and 1 min before you breath again. If you want more information about this you can go to the forum:
http://www.cpaptalk.com
and they will help you out.

I hope this helps. Good luck.

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Question by Lindsay G: sleep apnea related to chronic leg pain?
Hello. In December of 08 my doctor ordered me to go to a sleep study in which they found out that I have very severe sleep apnea. My ear nose and throat specialish (different doc from b4 bt was sent to him during the process) told me that I was way off the charts severe and I am going into surgery. I have to wait another month because insurance won’t let me do the tonsil and pallet surgery until I have had the cpap for 3 months. I’ve been using my cpap every night for the past 2 months and it has made a huge difference. However for about 3-4 months I have been experiences severe leg pain every night. It has never been this bad before. I do work 8-9 hours 5 days a week and I’m on my feet for pretty much all of the 8-9 hours. I’m in the process of trying new shoes with all the comfort I can afford. However I am wondering if the sleep apnea and/or cpap has anything to do with this leg pain. While I’m at work it gets worse and worse throughout my shift. As soon as I get off I rush home just so I can sit down and rest my legs. But when I get up from resting the pain is a lot worse. I walk like an old man and I am a 20 year old girl. The pain is a shooting pain and it goes from my toes all the way up to the about mid thigh. While at work I try to keep stretching them as I go to keep my blood going. Do anyone have any idea what this could be? Could it be that I just need new shoes? Is it related to sleep apnea? Are there any other things I could do at work to keep the pain away?

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Answer by frank m
I can tell you the CPAP is not causing the leg pain. It could be a vitamin deficiency or a nerve problem. I’d start with a visit to the chiropractor. The CPAP is a wonderful thing when you get used to it and will make a big difference in your life.

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Question by lovereallythere: what do you think about this research (related to sleep hours)?
Women’s Study Finds Longevity Means Getting Just Enough Sleep

A new study, derived from novel sleep research conducted by University of California, San Diego researchers 14 years earlier, suggests that the secret to a long life may come with just enough sleep. Less than five hours a night is probably not enough; eight hours is probably too much.

A team of scientists, headed by Daniel F. Kripke, MD, professor emeritus of psychiatry at UC San Diego School of Medicine, revisited original research conducted between 1995 and 1999. In that earlier study, part of the Women’s Health Initiative, Kripke and colleagues had monitored 459 women living in San Diego (ranging in age from 50 to 81) to determine if sleep duration could be associated with mortality. Fourteen years later, they returned to see who was still alive and well.

Of the original participants, 444 were located and evaluated. Eighty-six women had died. Previous studies, based upon questionnaires of people’s sleep habits, had posited that sleeping 6.5 to 7.5 hours per night was associated with best survival. Kripke and colleagues, whose 1990s research had used wrist activity monitors to record sleep durations, essentially confirmed those findings, but with a twist.

“The surprise was that when sleep was measured objectively, the best survival was observed among women who slept 5 to 6.5 hours,” Kripke said. “Women who slept less than five hours a night or more than 6.5 hours were less likely to be alive at the 14-year follow-up.”

The findings are published online in the journal Sleep Medicine.

Kripke said the study should allay some people’s fears that they’re not getting enough sleep. “This means that women who sleep as little as five to six-and-a-half hours have nothing to worry about since that amount of sleep is evidently consistent with excellent survival. That is actually about the average measured sleep duration for San Diego women.”

Researchers uncovered other interesting findings as well. For example, among older women, obstructive sleep apnea (pauses in breathing during sleep) did not predict increased mortality risk. “Although apneas may be associated with increased mortality risk among those under 60, it does not seem to carry a risk in the older age group, particularly for women,” Kripke said.

Co-authors of the study include Robert D. Langer of the Jackson Hole Center for Preventive Medicine; Jeffrey A. Elliot and Katharine M. Rex of the UCSD Department of Psychiatry; and Melville R. Klauber of the UCSD Department of Family and Preventive Medicine.

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i think that it might not be true for everyone… this was conducted only to the old women

and younger people probably need more time to sleep than just 7 hours because

they are more active and things they do require more energy, thus need more for body to get

recovered.

what do you think?

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Answer by Lizzi(:
i think the research is good for older grown people. younger people like kids and teens need their sleep. You grow while you sleep and when your younger you need to grow obviously. kids should sleep 8 hours.

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Question by ☼Lyla is pretty much done!: How is chiari malformation related to sleep apnea?
i’ve been experiencing some symptoms of sleep apnea for a while now, but i didn’t know they were out of the norm symptoms until recently. i’m jolted awake by my own snorting (lol?) quite frequently. i always thought it was just me being weird, but apparently that’s a sign of sleep apnea. i’m also really, really tired all the time, to the point where i don’t even go to bed early anymore because i know even if i get 12 hours of sleep, i’m still tired the next day. i’ve gotten used to it, so other than a lack of focus it doesn’t really inhibit my daily life.

but the thing i was thinking, is i’m not overweight. i, at first, figured it must not be sleep apnea since i’m not overweight. but the more i looked into it, i saw it can be a sign of a neurological problem. that obviously led me to wonder if it’s related to my chiari malformation. i tried looking it up online some, but all i found were publishments from the government or university, it was nothing i could interpret. all i’ve found is they can be related…but why? is this something i should worry about? should i tell my neurologist? should i get a sleep study?

if you need to know…
i’m 5′7 and 115 lb. i try really hard to gain weight, but i just don’t gain. so definitely not overweight.
i’m a vegetarian
i’m active (walk a lot and ride horses)
i was diagnosed with chiari just over a year ago, but my doctor said i was born with it
i used to get 8-9 hours of sleep in a night, but these days i get about 7. the symptoms started back when i was getting more sleep.

if you have any questions, i’ll try to add. thanks!

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Answer by RM
If you have a Chiari malformation and you have sleep apnea then yes, they are likely to be related.

The first step is to confirm the diagnosis of each (MRI and sleep study). After that you need a good doc or two to discuss if surgery is needed/desired.

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Question by *granny* class of ‘59: How is sleep apnea related to high red blood cell count?
and what is the name of the test that a person stays overnight in the hospital with diodes or wires glued to your head? Thanks in advance for your answer, no thumbs down from me.

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Answer by Michael T
Lack of oxygen in your blood stream can very easily increase your red blood cell count. That is exactly what sleep apnea does, it is a blockage that reduces your oxygen intake.

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