Sleep Apnea Treatment

Question by outdoorsgal: Donations for a surgery. Who/how do you ask for these?
I have 14mm of bone loss on my left lower jaw. I need bilateral jaw prosthesis. I have not been able to chew for 6 months now. My face is no longer symmetrical, and with all of this tugging and pulling on all of the muscles of my face and head I suffer from severe head pain every day now. My oral airway has significantly narrowed causing me OSAS, obstructed sleep apnea because of the bone deterioration. I wrote my story but is too long to post here. I have saved $ 70k but still need about $ 70k more for my surgery. I have sent my story to senators, the AMA, Donald Trump foundation, and many other places. As of this date I have had no responses. Anyone out there know how to tell me how to get help. I have had a lawyer fighting my insurance company, but they have denied me all the way saying they don’t cover TMJ. I don’t have typical TMJ, I am missing bone.

Thanks for any responses and help that anyone out there can give me.

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Answer by mom2babycolin
File an appeal with the insurance company, getting the doctors to re-word the diagnosis and clearly state that your condition is NOT the result of a pre-existing TMJ. Then, since you have half the money, talk to the hospital financial department. They will be very impressed at the amount you’ve saved and be willing to finance the rest. Get this done and get a lawyer to fight the insurance company if you need to for the reimbursement.

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Question by : What do these symptoms mean?
For the past 3 months I have been off and on sick, usually around the same time of month, but not during my period. The symptoms are nausea, fatigue, diarrhea, low grade fever, chills, headache, bodyaches, joint ache, congestion, chest pain, and sometimes a racing or pounding heart. I do have anxiety, but during these occurrences I don’t feel anxious until the third or fourth day. The first month I was diagnosed with a virus, the second month I had a uti. I haven’t gone to the doctor yet because I can’t afford it due to no insurance and no job. I have looked up the symptoms on webmd but none of the causes explain all my symptoms. I was thinking sleep apnea because it usually occurs in the morning and disipates throughout the day. I am not pregnant. Any ideas?

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Answer by huh?
…your going to die…im sorry..

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Question by : Does anyone else’s child suffer from all or most of these things?
eosinophilic esophagitis, asthma, reflux, ADHD, sensory Integration disorder, and possibly Autism (we’re waiting for an official diagnosis) He also had obstructive sleep apnea as a baby. The reason I’d like to know is I wonder if this is all interrelated some how! Thanks!

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Answer by Kimberly
My lo is 4yo and she suffers from enlarged tonsils,has sleep apnea,asthma,kidney problems(a lot of UTI.) And because of all these problems I found out she has a brain tumor, Now she gets treatments for. And the medication is causing the other problems. Is the side effects. So it a dam if you do or dam if you don’t thing.

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Question by spaceranger2010: do these symptoms remind u of any illness that i may have? im extreamly worried…?
i love to sleep. i always sleep but i used to LOVE it lol. as sad as it may sound. but anyway…for as far back as i remember i would nap during the day. i didn’t HAVE to nap but i would. a 15-30 min nap would do wonders for me. but recently i have been HAVING to sleep and get tired during the day. i have been diagnosed with sleep apnea and use a treatment for that which they have tested on me and they say it works.

lately in the past few months ive just been extreamly exhausted. i need to take naps during the day or else i can’t function. i often get very sleepy while driving or sitting for more than 20 min. when i get home from work and school i have to take a nap which now lasts about 2 hours. its annoying that im always so tired because i have things to do and im just to exhausted to do them! i sleep about 6 hours a night and often when i sleep more the symptoms worsen. what can i do? do u think its diabetes??? im worried!
i was involved in a sleep study where i was able to get benefit from nose strip kind of things. they hooked me up and they work just like the CPAP maching,where they helped my breathing while asleep.

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Answer by Susiecat
A person with sleep apnea is not getting the restorative sleep necessary to function.
Are they treating you with what they call a CPAP machine?
Continuious Postive Air Pressure. Machine.
This machine keep you from stopping breathing for a few minutes{which people with sleep apnea do.
The they gasp for air and this machine keeps this from happening.
There is also a condition called Narclepsy which the person can be wide awake talking or drive and BOOM the just drop off to sleep!
These conditions need to be treated.!

It doesn’t sound like diabetes, you would be extremely thirsty, have to urinate quite often and start to lose weight.
You need to see your doctor again and keep check on your situation.

Or take part in sleep studies in a lab where sleep disorders are diagnosed and treated.

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Question by ﺕ SB22 ټ: What do these symptoms point to?
My husband (38) has an appointment with a Doc next week & plans to talk about his symptoms with him of course, but I was just wondering if any of you can give us an idea of what he could be experiencing?

We’re going to ask about Migraines & sleep apnea, but there’s more involved, his symptoms are:
*Severe headaches, (YEARS) never Dx’d with migraines, they come 2-5 x’s a week now
*Sleep disturbances, (Months) Harder time falling to sleep & wakes up constantly from gasping for air, used to wake up with a choking feeling but now its more gasping for air.
*Pain in his stomach, (Months) He had pretty bad side aches/pains that we think has to do with his digestion, he’s tried different vitamins & minerals & enzymes, but it seems to make it worse, & sometimes it wakes him up at night too
*Heart racing, (days) He’ll wake up gasping for air & his heart races terribly, & has an “odd” shaky feeling along with it all.

Last night he even got up at 2am & checked online for symptoms of heart-attack & stroke because he was worried about what he was experiencing, but didn’t find matching symptoms.

His headaches are the main reason he’s seeing the doctor, he had an MRI Friday too. He gets all kinds of headaches though, some he feels are caused by too much sugar late at night, some shoot sharp pains in parts of his head, some neuralgia in the back of his head, mostly stabbing excruciating pain in his forehead, MOST of them happen early in the morning & he wakes up in horrible pain.

We’re wondering if these are symptoms of sleep apnea, or migraines, or anything else that they can all be related?

Like I said, we’re talking to the doctor, but we’d appreciate answers, especially from your self-experiences & not just guessing at what it could be, we’ve already been doing that. =]

Thanks for your help!

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Answer by yeahh
Ask your neurologist to do a sleep study in order to find out if it is sleep apnea or just migranes. The doctor will probably also prescribe medication to reduce the migranes overall pain. Also look into botox for migranes, its supposed to work very well, but only for up to a year.

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