Sleep Apnea Treatment

Question by cheerdiva1987: Weight lose surgery ! My fiancé is 612 pounds and were wondering which surgery is better for him !?
He is not a diabetic, he does have mild high blood pressure , he has sleep apnea and uses a bi pap machine ! He has Medicare which there approving him for the lap band but I talked to some one who had the gastric and one had great out come and one had life threatening problems with it ! Any one have suggestions ?

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Answer by Van Bo
Go for liposuction, 100 pounds at a time, and of course you will get doctors’ advice before he undertakes such a radical weight loss solution, as it can be dangerous.

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Question by vampo: waking up with heart racing and not knowing were i am for a couple min (sleep apnea?) maybe?
im a 23 year old male …this usually happens about once a month but its really scary and no exaggerating my heart rate is over 200 bpm when this happens and i cant think of anything for about 30 to 2 min .. cant think of my name or were i am ..but never last more then 2 min …i do strongly belive i have sleep apnea bad but i dont have incurance so i cant get any test done … dose this sound like sleep apnea ? i just get worried im going to have a heart attack from one of these

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Answer by Cergio S
This sounds like a classic example of a BP Spike ( blood pressure spike ) The racing heart beat goe’s along with this. You being nervous over it and the heart races more.. You probably have high blood pressure and its on occasion spiking and going even higher.. This is your call to go see a doctor.. You need to see a doctor and get on meds or next time it happens go to the ER and they will tell you whats up..

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Question by vampo: Waking up heart racing not knowing were i am (sleep apnea?) mabe?
im a 23 year old male …this usually happens about once a month but its really scary and no exaggerating my heart rate is over 200 bpm when this happens and i cant think of anything for about 30 sec to 2 min .. cant think of my name or were i am ..but never last more then 2 min …i do strongly belive i have sleep apnea bad but i dont have incurance so i cant get any test done … dose this sound like sleep apnea ? i just get worried im going to have a heart attack from one of these

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Answer by shining_epiphany
Doesn’t sound like sleep apnea. Sounds more like a nightmare, or sleep terrors.

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I have a co worker who is the same age with the same diagnosis. We were diagnosed in the same year, so we assume we have had the disease for about the same amount of time. We both have the C-Pap. He is not on oxygen during the day. I am on oxygen therapy 24/7.

He has been a smoker. He had pneumonia last year , and it seems his disease has begun progressing much more rapidly than mine. He has been hospitalized, and needed a respirator twice in the last six months.

Is this a usual sequence for this condition?

I have sleep apnea that causes daytime drowsiness. I was suspended for this reason. My employer told another employee I was suspended for sleeping on the job. Does this violate Hippa since it is medically related?