Sleep Apnea Treatment

Question by ChrisK: Does a BiPAP require a different kind of mask than a CPAP?
I’m using a BiPAP (not CPAP) for sleep apnea. I use a full mask that covers my nose and mouth. Does the BiPAP require a different kind of mask than a CPAP? Or will any mask work on both BiPAPs and CPAPs?

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Answer by n10svrn
Either will do

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Question by KayLee: Other than obesity, is sleep apnea a symptom of any other underlying conditions?

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Answer by Lisa A
Sure, hypothyroidism comes to mind.

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Question by rogo711: Does anyone know any other alternative to sleep apnea other than that awful mask?
Treatment Options: Medication, etc.

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Answer by Scarlett
There are nose pillows, and also a surgery that places some sort of thing inside your mouth in the back where you cannot truly notice it that can help. Weight loss will help greatly. I have sleep apnea and I know that it can be cumbersome and some poeple cant stand anything on their face. But from day 1 for me I got used to it. I have recently tried to sleep without it and can make it 2 or 3 night without now where I couldnt several months ago. But you do need to use it if you have been diagnosed. Not using it can cause you to have heart problems also and you could stop breathing and never start back up…….check into the sorts of different things you can do to help other than the mask.

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Question by kimmie63: Could my symptoms be more than sleep apnea?
I have been having health problems since October. Symptoms im having are…muscle pain, weakness, sudden loss of strength, burning pain in joints, muscle spasms and cramps, fatigue,clumsiness like dropping things alot, unsteadiness, tingling in my legs and arms…my family doctor did blood work which came back normal, at first he thought i had fibromyalgia until i started having muscle weakness, he ruled out sleep apnea as I dont snore much and sleep fairly well nor do i have very many of the symptoms. He sent me to a neurologist as he thinks i have a neurological disorder…the neurologist says he thinks i have sleep apnea and scheduled a sleep study test, ive talked with others who have sleep apnea and they say I need to see a different neurologist and get a second opinion…has anyone else had these problems with sleep apnea???

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Answer by Fire Fighter G
do you ever wake up and it’s like u can’t breathe? or if you lay on ur back does it feel harder to breathe? I’m 18 and i’ve got sleep apnea. I just went through all the tests. a sleep study isn’t gonna hurt ya. if anything it helps. just let me know if I can help ya out any

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Question by somebody123: anyone know more than the average joe about CENTRAL sleep apnea? (non snoring)?
I feel when I dream for a long time I wake up feeling heavy and weak with a weak pulse but not like I have to breath rapidly but feel abit winded and well I’m not overweight.. completely lack the double chin they say a normal sleep apnea person usually has(or any slack inside or ourside your neck) I’ve had the sleep test waited 7 months. they said nothing happened, but they hooked me up with so many probes that I couldn’t possibly sleep deeply enough and it took me many hours to even get close to sleeping. had no dreams and woke up feeling really refreshed oddly more than normal.like all those stupid discomfort causing things attached to me caused a light sleep so that my sleep problem never occurred. ironically during the test to find out if I had it or not ugh. so noow I either have to reinroll into a test that doesn’t have the p roper environment to cause it or I keep suffering(its not every night but when I enter dream sleep) or sleep for more than 2 hours in darkness.
—>anyone know about central or other types of sleep apnea that don’t involve obstruction? <--------
or if you have another idea what could be obstructing it(I sleep on my back most times) but on my side lately so I haven't been suffering from it as much. (ps I don't have asthma)

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Answer by pelican
Everyone has the same problem with the sleep test – they are bothered by the strange and different environment and so on. So the people doing the test know that and it is common. So in that sense, your situation is not that different from other people.

In central sleep apnea the brain does not send the correct signals to the muscles that control your breathing. Central sleep apnea is less common than obstructive sleep apnea, accounting for less than 5 percent of sleep apneas.

You don’t say how old you are, but many people who suffer from night terrors as children grow up to continue to have sleep problems as adults, so you might want to do a little investigating about your sleep history. Consider the possibility that you may be having night terrors or even sleep walking, both of which would mean disrupted sleep.

There are several different types of central sleep apnea. Check here.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/central-sleep-apnea/DS00995/DSECTION=causes
http://sleep.lovetoknow.com/Night_Terrors_in_Adults
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/sleepwalking/article_em.htm

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