Re: sleep apnea, blood pressure, panic, and dreams

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Sleep apnea has a couple of causes. One is mechanical. The throat is narrow, the person is overweight and the throat collapses when the person reaches a certain stage of sleep. The other cause is having to do with the central nervous system where the brain doesn't get the signal that the person needs to breathe. In either case the damages to the body are bad. Your kidneys don't work right so you pee all night. Your heart is stressed and you die young of a heart attack. You get high blood pressure. If you get a CPAP machine you can stop the throat closing simply by constant air pressure keeping the throat open. This then gives your body a chance to heal because you then get normal stage 3 and 4 sleep. But there is no CURE for sleep apnea in most cases. The ones who can be fixed can have laser surgery to open their throat passage. In my case the throat is clear and open, so no one is willing to do surgery. It is only successful in something like 40% of cases even when the docs think they know it will help. Not very good odds.

I suspect that those of us who react to mold toxins are getting more of a central nervous system apnea. But I don't know. It certainly could be both.

PS. Everything I just wrote is only based on my experience so take it for what it is worth and get a good sleep specialist.

a Carnes

A lot of things seem to be connected, so it's hard topinpoint causations. Someone mentioned sleep apnea.Sleep apnea is the only known cause of high bloodpressure. Since apnea means waking-up (because of notgetting enough air), dreams stop when the person withapnea doesn't get into REM sleep. Sleep apnea ishereditary, being caused by the shape of the throat.BUT, I'm wondering: does bad sinusitus from moldaggravate sleep apnea? I think maybe so.Re: panic attacks at night--I had terrible nightmares,but we both had panic attacks too. Actually, we weremildly panicked during the day a lot as well, notknowing what was wrong with us or what to do aboutit...

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In a message dated 2/24/2004 10:28:03 PM Pacific Standard Time, pj7@... writes:

But there is no CURE for sleep apnea in most cases.

My husband has this and I make him sleep on his left side and then he doesn't get it as much.