Re: Sleep apnea and fibro/GERD - Cassandra

May 12, 2008

Cassandra,

Your description sure sounds as if you should have a sleep study. As

to the surgical route, it is my impression after a lot of reading

that this is a last resort when nothing else works. No you are not

being irrational - none of us want to be hooked up to a machine the

rest of our lives. I have been fighting my CPAP machine for about a

month now but I do use it most every night, all night. My problem so

far is that I can't get my Dr or respiratory therapist to try

anything else. (different mask, different machine etc.) They keep

telling me that I just have to adjust to it. The only nights that I

haven't used the CPAP and oxygen are the 2 nights that I tried oxygen

alone and 1 that I used nothing so I could get some sleep.

Margaret B

> I snore, thrash,talk,walk all in my sleep.

> I also have GERD- severe enough that I have had

> several episodes of loosing the ability to speak for up to a week,

> due to acid reflux intomy

> vocal tract. My vocal cords are

> permenantly damaged and what used to be a professional quality

> singing voice is realy

> creaky and I no longer have full range ( a devastating loss for a

> vocalist.) I have asthma

> including nightime episodes where I wake from dreams that a very

> heavy furry cat is

> sitting

> on my chest or face. My partner says that I sometimes stop

> breathing while asleep, then

> gasp and continue to snore. I am reluctant to have a sleep study.

> I do not want to be

> hooked to CPap forever, also another possibility is I still have my

> tonsils and adenoids and

> some docs like to go the surgical route for this problem, no thank

> you.

> Am I being irrational about this? I promise not to bite you if I

> disagree with your response.

> Cassandra

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