POLL: What got you into xPAP therapy ?

[dsm]

Was reading one of the threads (CNN article on Apnea) & it raised a question in my mind. Just the sort of question for a poll.

Have put together the following questions of which I strongly suspect the 1st one will get the biggest hits. If so, that raises the
further question of how many people without partners have SA/OSA but have no one to point it out to them or push them to
take action.

DSM

#2 Edited to add new last question - also now allow 3 choices so you can cover more than 1 option.

[Ruby Vee]

I checked the first one, but it would be more accurate to say that I'd been bugging HIM to get a sleep study for years, having observed his loud snoring and apneas. He kept putting it off and putting it off, and finally said he'd get a sleep study if I did. So I did. Guess what. I have OSA. I went on CPAP a couple of weeks before he did.

My doctor, much as I love her, didn't put it together that my complaints of fatigue, headaches, difficulty staying asleep and depression (which could also have been explained by the multiple deaths in the family) may have been related to OSA. I think, in general, the medical community just isn't up to speed on OSA. More and more physicians are becoming aware -- mine is NOW -- but it will take awhile before physicians start to recognize the signs and refer patients without a bit of a reminder.

[PST]

There is no button for "strangers on airplanes kept telling me I had sleep apnea," which was one of the things that led me to suspect the problem. Fighting sleep every afternoon was another. The weird thing, though, is all the information my wife had but never shared until after I told her I was going for a sleep study. It was only then that she described how nervous it made her when I would stop breathing for half a minute or more, and how I would sit up in my sleep and sleep sitting, swaying back and forth, for half an hour or so a couple of times each night. There is such a thing as being too tolerant of someone else's idiosyncracies. (Or else she did tell me and I've forgotten due to apnea-related memory disfunction!)

[BleepingBeauty]

None of the choices applies to me, so I didn't vote.

A friend alerted me to my sleep apnea while we were staying overnight in Sedona, sharing a hotel room. And thank goodness she said something, because I was totally unaware of it.

[dsm]

None of the choices applies to me, so I didn't vote.

A friend alerted me to my sleep apnea while we were staying overnight in Sedona, sharing a hotel room. And thank goodness she said something, because I was totally unaware of it.

I guess I should have included a Q like

"Room mate or traveling companions or other folk alerted me to possibility of SA/OSA"

I don't think a poll can be altered once it is created ?

DSM

[BleepingBeauty]

I guess I should have included a Q like

"Room mate or traveling companions or other folk alerted me to possibility of SA/OSA"

I don't think a poll can be altered once it is created ?

DSM

Sorry, I have no idea how the poll threads work. I've never created one.

[BeanMeScot]

None of the choices applies to me, so I didn't vote.

A friend alerted me to my sleep apnea while we were staying overnight in Sedona, sharing a hotel room. And thank goodness she said something, because I was totally unaware of it.

This is me, so I selected the first one.

I didn't think I had OSA. Even though I was told I snored, no one ever said I stopped breathing or gasped or anything like that. And that was correct. I don't stop breathing. I have hypopneas. And they are only bad when I am in REM. But it was bad enough for the diagnosis.

[El Pap]

"Room mate or traveling companions or other folk alerted me to possibility of SA/OSA"

That would be me. I fell asleep watching TV at a friend's house, and his wife noticed the characteristic breathing/snoring pauses. I'm eternally grateful for her keen observation.

[Pneumonym]

My GI doc recommended it, but I was in complete denial and would never have done the overnight evaluation if FAA Medical in Oklahoma didn't insist, or they wouldn't let me fly a light airplane ever again. So I wanted to select the last option as well as the other one.

[Hawthorne]

It was my Rheumatologist who alerted me to the possibility. I went to see her complaining about a different kind of fatigue from that which I had been experiencing for 12 years with Rheumatoid Arthritis.

She asked if anyone in the house snored. I had to admit that I did. My husband had told me that I did snore a lot! She asked if I stopped snoring and then started up again, gasping with it. I asked my husband and he said yes I did do that all the time.

Neither of us knew anything much about sleep apnea so thought nothing of it really. I had a sleep study and was diagnosed with severe sleep apnea and went on cpap almost 7 years ago now.

Now I never snore! Both my husband and I now sleep a lot better!

[Muse-Inc]

...I don't think a poll can be altered once it is created ?

I do it all the time; "edit" your post and go to the Poll Creation tab, make your changes, clicK "Preview" or "Submit"

[Juliebove]

I was sleepy and forgetful. Now with the machine I am exhausted and forgetful!

[dsm]

...I don't think a poll can be altered once it is created ?

I do it all the time; "edit" your post and go to the Poll Creation tab, make your changes, clicK "Preview" or "Submit"

Thanks Muse-Inc - still so many things to learn

DSM

[Wulfman]

Doug,

I have seen at least one poll that got FUBARed when it was altered, but I can't remember what was changed. Maybe adding another category won't affect it.
I was thinking about another option like "Getting some 'encouragement' from one's employer to get their problem fixed" (before they get terminated)........but, maybe the last option will cover that, too.


Den

[Goofproof]

The doctors, I had a heart attack, a month later they did a quad-by-pass, and it took 20 minutes to get the breathing tube in, that and low O2 stats in recovery and after, earned me the test.

I wouldn't recommend this method of finding out, there are easier ways. Jim