Re: O2 question/prednisone

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Jim

This didn't by any chance start with the drop to five did it? I wouldn't

think so, but the very fact it otherwise effected you and you had to go

back up after a week says your body didn't like the drop. Then, as if

each medication isn't complicated enough, you go to interactions and

find things you'd never suspect.

> > >

> > > On second thought......the longer I think about this and consult

> with the pros I'm becoming certain that this is not an oxygen

> issue.....I actually wish it was. The problem is that I'm having

violent

> dreams, thrashing around in bed and really putting Eva in danger.

> Started about a year ago but it was infrequent......maybe once a month

> or less. I'd start moaning, and twitching, then start throwing punchs.

I

> never remember throwing the punch, don't remember the dreams, but I do

> vaguely remember being in a fight. I actually hit Eva on the shoulder

a

> few months ago, hurt her, bruised her........then this past Friday

night

> began 3 nights of this crap.....Fri nite I squeezed her arm so hard

that

> my handprint is still there today. Sat nite I hit her on the top of

the

> head. Sunday nite I punched the head of the bed and damned near broke

my

> hand. So....some of you are wondering why the hell she puts up with

> it.....why doesn't she kick me out of bed.....it's just not that

simple,

> > > this is an extraordinary woman. However I am sleeping in another

bed

> until this gets sorted out. Sunday I was a mess......I've worked

mental

> health for 22 years and there are a couple PhD clinicians here that

are

> excellent. Got together with them and an MD on Sunday. Got a full

> physical yesterday. They don't know...........they believe it has

> nothing to do with Eva but simply depends on which side on laying on

at

> the time. Left side....she gets it, right side it's the head of the

bed,

> a gun case (what? guns in the room with this moron??) a bedside stand

> one time. We went back to when I finished cancer treatment and morphed

> into the IPF. I had lots of horrible nightmares, recurring nightmares

> about death, me dying, my funeral, violent scenarios. I got " shrunk "

at

> the time. Really a no brainer......I was seething with rage about what

> was happening to me and awake I could keep a lid on it, asleep

> .......out it came. As I adjusted to the diagnosis they subsided. Now

> > > this........this is really long winded.....the docs theorize that

> either it's low sats, causing momentary panic, triggering a dream,

etc,

> etc. or low blood sugar. Eva says they usually happen around 2:30 or

> 3am, likely when I'm coming out of the first, and deepest sleep on the

> way to the 1st REM. Well I was still up at 2am, stuck my

> finger....89...not low blood sugar. Also I wore the O2 hose all night,

> which I don't ordinarily do. I know, I know....I've read you folks

> talking about what your sats do at night, but I sleep

great.....figured

> it must be okay. At 5am, while sucking the hose I did my twitch, moan

> dance. No pinchs, but it was discouraging......sats were good. Tonight

> we have a machine from inpatient at the hosp that monitors, records

and

> prints my sats all night. So, I'll sleep with no hose and we'll

> see..........jeez.....is there a question there????? Does this ring

any

> bells for anyone? I don't suffer apnea. The next step is into

Anchorage

> for a sleep study.

> > > I know many of you have had sleep studies. Have these been related

> to apnea or some other sleep disturbance? The sleep study is not

without

> problems. First, how do I know I can perform for them? Will I have to

> stay there until I do?

> > >

> > > Hey Bruce Buddy.....I'm countin' on you here..........this has to

be

> resolved. Separate beds will protect Eva but my hands can take only so

> many wall strikes. I should say.......I am not a violent man, 2 actual

> physical fights in 63 years. So this violent stuff is out of

character.

> Especially now, when retirement has made such a change in my stress

> level, my disease has been stable for 8 months, maybe a year.

> > >

> > > Now that I've told my life story.......5'10 " , 200, brn, brn, bat

> left handed . I sure hope someone has an idea.. Ah yes........almost

> forgot....did any of you experience symptoms during sleep, other than

> apnea, as a result of low sats......I know....If I'm asleep how would

I

> know? You know what I mean.........thanx ahead of time.....

> > >

> > > jim IPF 05

> > > alaska

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