Jaw, I actually think your brain is probably OK, except you are not as happy as you need to be. Make it a point to give yourself a little pep talk, and believe it. A little positive self-talk can go a long way, and help with the worry. The doctors you will see know more than many of us--your medici...

When I look at the research groups being active in finding how brain is damaged after long untreated severe OSA, only two sources pop up - One is Ronald Harper group at UCLA http://www.bri.ucla.edu/people/ronald-m-harper-phd, together with Paul Macey also at UCLA http://www.bri.ucla.edu/people/paul-...

So, is it easy to check for the following in one's body ?

- low magnesium ?
- Low GABA and too high glutamate ?

Goofproof wrote: Doesn't sound too bad, if you could get it up to 8 hours it would be better

My average is 8h per day.

#1: Get the Sleepyhead software, and use it! Main thing to check is leaks, Your mask should vent a set leak rate, depending on your treatment pressure, the amount of leaks over that is unwanted leaking and must be controlled. If it is too high, you are not getting the best treatment you can. My Sle...

Would you possibly be happier at another job? Doing different work? Have you gone to a career counsellor (or whatever they're called there) to explore other ideas? If you're depressed to begin with, and you don't like your job, that won't help anything... Can you even (now) tell the difference betw...

chunkyfrog wrote:You have been reading too much without understanding.

Please enlight me on the parts I don't understand yet.

chunkyfrog wrote:The important thing to remember is that no one fully understands
the inner workings of the human brain; not even those who study it for a lifetime.

I understand it

Hi the ones laughing at me, I understand your points.

But in my country, I need to show evidences for juridical purposes

Hi Jaw, As one who has some mysterious medical issues that I developed while on psych meds that so far have not been resolved, I understand your obsession with trying to find answers. .... Just so you know, I need to apply this advice to my own situation as I have been all over the place because I ...

So it's me with 6 months on CPAP, good AHI, still fogginess, memory, concentration, fatigue, slow thinking. Thanks to excellent suggestions on this forum, I have done an MRI check with the focus on "white/grey matter and some other atrophies", in 8 days I am going to discuss that with a neurologist....

CPAPTALK.COM enlights me once again. Bravo america in pioneering OSA researches.

Goofproof wrote:When the blood flow switches back to the big brain, from the little brain, fogginess goes away. Jim

No, fogginess happens when the blood flow switches back to the big brain.

So my 1st contribution to this forum, after consuming many time of you guys in helping me. I copy here the text from that podcast, this is transcribed by me. It helps people in reading the info faster, helps also Google. There are some words I cannot recognize, please help me fix them. Thanks ======...

Hi all, In this post I wonder how other xPAP people experience RES (residual excessive sleepiness) and how your ESS scores are. While checking if my evening tiredness and morning brain fogginess are due to a Residual Excessive Sleepiness, I do the Epsworth Sleepiness Scale test http://www.sleepservi...