Re: Fibromyalgia, RA and Sleep Apnea

[Guest guest]

There isn't much information to go on in this particular case, but my guess

is that she didn't have RA in the first place. The fibromyalgia aspect is a

little trickier.

Studies have been done where fibromyalgia symptoms are induced in healthy

subjects in just a few days by interfering with their sleep cycles. Sleep

apnea does disrupt the cycles also, so treating the sleep apnea

appropriately can reduce fibromyalgia or fibromyalgia-like symptoms.

Not an MD

I'll tell you where to go!

Mayo Clinic in Rochester

http://www.mayoclinic.org/rochester

s Hopkins Medicine

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org

[ ] Fibromyalgia, RA and Sleep Apnea

> My husbands employer told him that his wife had been diagnosed with FMS

> and RA. Someone she wound up at a doctor for sleep apnea and after

> going through the clinic and being treated for that, her FMS and RA are

> cured! I've done tons of research and have never seen anything about

> this. Has anyone else?

[Guest guest]

I've read about RA being treated using hyperbaric oxygen chambers:

http://www.lifestylestherapeutics.com/Arthritis.html

Sleep apnea as well as a lack of exercise causes low oxygen levels,

which can cause a host of other

problems, especially muscle weakness and fatigue. I can see where

correcting sleep apnea can

result in many muscular symptoms disappearing. As far as RA, I have

to agree with that it

may have been misdiagnosed in the first place. Misdiagnosing RA is

all to common.

a

On May 27, 2006, at 8:16 AM, eandsspivey wrote:

> My husbands employer told him that his wife had been diagnosed with

> FMS

> and RA. Someone she wound up at a doctor for sleep apnea and after

> going through the clinic and being treated for that, her FMS and RA

> are

> cured! I've done tons of research and have never seen anything about

> this. Has anyone else?

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[Guest guest]

I do know that my rheumy early on had me tested for sleep apnea, and gave a

sleeping pill to use as needed. She feels a good night rest is very important.

in WI

eandsspivey <emilyspivey185@...> wrote: My husbands employer told him that

his wife had been diagnosed with FMS

and RA. Someone she wound up at a doctor for sleep apnea and after

going through the clinic and being treated for that, her FMS and RA are

cured! I've done tons of research and have never seen anything about

this. Has anyone else?

[Guest guest]

Hi :

I have also been tested and have sleep apnea, and am

on a CPAP, and take sleep meds, so I am getting better

sleep, but in no way am I cured! My RA and FM are

just as evident as they always were! I think she was

misdiagnosed.

Kathe in CA

--- susan smith <bizzare48@...> wrote:

> I do know that my rheumy early on had me tested for

> sleep apnea, and gave a sleeping pill to use as

> needed. She feels a good night rest is very

> important. in WI

>

> eandsspivey <emilyspivey185@...> wrote: My

> husbands employer told him that his wife had been

> diagnosed with FMS

> and RA. Someone she wound up at a doctor for sleep

> apnea and after

> going through the clinic and being treated for that,

> her FMS and RA are

> cured! I've done tons of research and have never

> seen anything about

> this. Has anyone else?

>

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[Guest guest]

hey wait a minute I forgot about my Cpap machine

gees is the whole world sleeping with one now :-)

Bonnie Sue

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