OSA have increased significantly in very short time-Cause?

Good guy, check your private messages.

To make a long story short, I don't have any support from any doctors that there is or could be any connection. Of course, experience has shown that that's the same with virtually everything that is discovered later on that may be harmful to you now but wasnt proven earlier.

Rather than doctors saying that there is no evidence at this time and that research is continuing they boldly say NO. I guess that's the same attitude they took with all those drugs recently in the news that caused heart problems, and of course diabetes or lung cancer.

Justin_Case wrote:Aspirin is pretty hard on my gut, so that's not a good idea for me.

Justin, you might want to get a thorough exam (or another, if you've been diagnosed in the past) for the possiblity of these things: GERD (Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease) , acid reflux, and VCD (vocal cord dysfunction.) Any of that can cause CPAP treatment to not be anywhere near as effective as it can be.

Check out the discussion and other links contained in this topic:
Nov 05, 2005 subject: SUCCESS AT LAST-GERD,420E, PRILOSEC AND BENADRYL

Note -- it was not a matter of which machine was used. It was most likely that swollen rigid tissue throat tissue being bathed with acid, or spasms of the vocal cords were preventing "cpap" treatment from doing what it's designed to do -- push aside soft tissue. CPAP air pressure can't do much shoving if it hits a brick wall.

Rested gal,

The possibility of Silent GERD is intriguing. I do have Ulcerative Colitis, but there was no evidence of GERD a few years ago when I was tested. However, given my anxiety level for several months and pinched nerve(s) it's is quite conceivable that there is a connection.

The hard part is convicing the doctor to purse this.

I got a PM the other day and to try as an experiment to see how I am after I take some over the counter preps for GERD. I tried theis last night: I didn't eat or drink anything for 3 hours before going to bed. Last night, it was a slighly worse night than on average. Could be something to do with the magnesium in the GERD Maalox formula.

What I have mentioned before was the possibility of nerve issues. My sleep doc dismisses any liklihood but he's an idiot in general. If something hasn't been 100% scientifically proven, it's not so.

I am NOW having ongoing prickly sensations throughout my body, which may be "Peripheral Neuropathy" http://www.medicinenet.com/peripheral_n ... rticle.htm. My gp who is also an internist dismissed all my inital concerns and warnings as mere anxiety and prescribed some anti-depressants which are alternatively used to treat anxiety. Of course, most of them have unwanted side-effects like diabetes.

Since my GP is on holidays for over a month, I am going to see his associate and insist I be referred to a neurologist and a cardiologist for my tachycardia. The seeing of a specialist takes several months here....

Recently, I came back from having a PSG at the hospital and the tech noticed the substantial increase of apneas in the early hours of the morning. He said that they were central apneas and I suffer from mixed apneas. He said that it's up to the doctors to determine why I am having centrals. He is sending the report to my sleep doc who flat out would not accept my Encore data or that it was plausable that I could have Centrals.

I suspect that I have had TIA or strokes in the late summer, but of course all the doctors I have seen the for the last 4 months said that's not the case. I have managed to convince my GP's temporary replacement while on holidays to to refer me to a neurologist. I have an appointment in a few weeks.

Of course, they (all the professionals) were all probably thinking, what do I know? I am not a doctor, probably just a schizophreniac. Looks like I will once AGAIN prove them wrong.

Now, I am battling a nasty flu and as I have a touch of asthma, sleeping and CPAP in general is very difficult. Everytime I have a central attack, I wake up coughing and my heart racing. I have taken Snore Dogs advice (thank you btw) and moved my pressure to 9cm even though the experts have told me that I should have it at 12 cm.

I don't know what's in store for me, but 2007 will be a particularly difficult year, I may have to go on disability. It's just one thing after another. I dont know how I am going to deal with all this.

Thanks for the update.
I've been wondering how you were doing.

Best wishes,

Den

Thank you Wulfman, all the best.

Well, it looks like I was right but 4 different doctors disagreed at the time.

I got my MRI results back and I have had a stroke. This *may* explain my centrals as most people who have central apnea have had a stroke. My doctor had a guilty look on his face.

I cant help wonder if any of those anti anxiety meds had anything to do with my stroke that I suffered last September.

Hey, man, I was just thinking about you a couple of days ago.
Sorry to hear about the MRI results.....but glad to hear you're still "alive".

Are you still on your PAP?.....what did they have to say about that?

Best wishes,

Den

Hey,

Thanks!.

Yes, I am still on CPAP. Lowered the setting, but we're not sure what do right now. At 40 and not obese, I hope to be around for a while but with these doctors, I dunno.