Sleep Apnea Treatment

Question by Miss J: Are there other medical conditions that create similar symptoms to those of depression and anxiety?
I am doing a little research. I have found a considerable amount of overlap in symptoms that are typically diagnosed as depression, anxiety and bi-polar disorder. I have looked into Epstein-Bar Virus, PTSD, Anemia, ADHD, Thyroid, and Sleep Apnea. It is amazing how much the symptoms overlap. I’d like to know if there are other conditions that cause or mimic symptoms of depression and/or anxiety. I would be interested in doing further research.

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Answer by sunnny
of course, psych illnesses should be the last to be considered after all other med tests done.
chronic diseases, cancers, diabetes, obesity, but the docs can misdiagnose for years. I know, took them 4 years, 3 picc lines for pseudomonas and a DNA test to prove I have Cystic Fibrosis.
I fired the last idiot who pulled the “depression” needs cymbalta crap, got an MRI brain, shows meningioma. before the new medication, had stuttering, wt loss, forgetfulness, fatigue, muscle weakness, pains in joints/muscles, nausea, low K+, that is not depression, esp the onset and presentation and I knew it wasn’t CF. depression can be misdiagnosed by apathetic docs, pt has vague sx, abd pain, or other sx, labs don’t really show anything, but a disease in process, MS, lupus, ovarian cancers, neurological sx, plus all the wrong meds are Rx’d and the pt suffers until their illness is so bad it ’s too late. supposedly 2% of the pop has depression, but the way they’d have you think, everyone is depressed clinically. see www.effexor.com phases of depression,

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Question by Austen: What is sleep apnea and what are the symptoms?

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Answer by chiggawaa
isn’t that when you stop breathing in your sleep?

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Question by Rick The man: what can you do to improve sleep apnea symptoms?
just a quick fix, not cpap or surgery, just a one night thing.
i am not fat

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Answer by J B
There is no fix for sleep apnea. You can try the Breathe Right strips, you can stay on your side all night and hope you don’t snore. Sleep apnea can be serious when left untreated – it puts you at higher risk for a heart attack and, other than C-PAP, surgery, weight loss can get rid of this. Once the fat is absent in the neck/throat area, sleep apnea often decreases or goes away but this cannot be achieved in one night.

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Question by vijay kumar s: what is sleeping apnea and what are the symptoms?

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Answer by oliver_a2002
Sleep Apnea is periodic involuntary interruptions in your breathing while sleeping.

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Question by : Do I have symptoms of a sleep disorder?
I am 12 years old and have never been able to get to sleep before 11 o’ clock ever since I was about eight or nine. In fact, right now I go to bed at about 12 every night, if my dog ever stops barking. I find that I can only go to sleep REALLY late with no television (or any white noise and light) on, or earliER with the TV. I am not the kind of person who can go to bed and fall asleep five minutes later, if I am lucky, it will take me an hour to fall asleep using either method and I will get about 5-6 hours of sleep (I wake up at 6:30.) Please help me and tell me what is wrong and if there is anything I can do to fix it, my pediatrician told me to go to sleep earlier AND without the television on but that just makes it worse and I find that whenever I try and do that, even when I do it for a couple nights in a row to try and get used to it, I will end up getting no sleep at all!

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Answer by Ari
saty up 3 days in a row. then you will be so tired that you’ll sleep for over 12 hours.

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