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05-21-2007, 12:37 PM | #2 |
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Sleep Apnea is horrible. My wife's uncle has it, and he falls asleep constantly during the day. His doctor put him on Ritalin (as a stimulant) because he kept falling asleep at work and was going to get fired.
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05-21-2007, 12:39 PM | #3 |
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Good luck Kotter! Hope the surgery is a success and you have a speedy recovery.
My cousin had this done a couple years ago and said everything went smoothly, but I don't have any more details than that.
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Fortunately, for me....it doesn't affect my daily responsibilities in a marked way, other than I'm probably less efficient than I use to be, or should be. Hopefully, this surgery will get me back to "normal."
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05-21-2007, 12:44 PM | #5 |
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Bob Dole's dad did not have to undergo surgery, but started using the CPAP a couple of years ago after they determined that he regularly stopped breathing for periods exceeding 3 minutes. Just the use of the CPAP has improved his quality of life 300%. (It's done wonders for the quality of life of the people who have had to tolerate his tired, cranky ass, too.)
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05-21-2007, 01:09 PM | #8 | |
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Yeah, I saw that on Wikipedia. Do you know anything about the Stanford Protocol?
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05-21-2007, 01:11 PM | #9 |
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I thought your problem was rat poison?
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05-21-2007, 01:29 PM | #10 |
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please get this done...
i don't know you from adam, but i lost a very close friend of mine a few years ago from complications due to sleep apnea, he was 23 years old it's serious business |
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05-21-2007, 02:12 PM | #12 |
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Now that I'm back in the land of the fully insured (after a 4+ year absence for grad school), I'm going to press for a sleep study. Per the various g/f's, I have quite a bit of sleep apnea.
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My doctor did mention, IF this doesn't work.....that would be the next step.
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I went back in for a sleep study 3 months later, and the surgery didn't help my apnea at all. It altered the sound of my voice and I soar throats are a lot worse now than they were before. With the uvula gone if you ever vomit, make sure you plug your nose or the vomit will keep going straight up into your nasal cavity. Don't drink beer to fast or the foam will go up there as well. I waited until I got out of the military, had another sleep study done and was put on a CPAP. It is a pain being hooked up to a machine every night, but it resolves the apnea issue. Hopefully you will have better luck than I had, but with over 10 other diseases such as kidney failure, heart problems, alzimers, etc... having had partial links found to sleep apnea you have no choice but to do something about it. |
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BTW, I was 24 years old, 6'1" 220lbs at the time of the surgery. I'm 5 years older and 50 pounds fatter now, but the severity of the apnea is still the same. |
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