Sleep apnea?/ GERD/Asthma/ child abuse

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Hi everyone, Ok, lets start with GERD. I take Prevacid,( I have Medicare partD

plus a free

supplemental insurance for meds from the State) after trying the other acid meds

Prevacid

seemed to work best for me, just once a day and I was fine. Then came the

incident with

the stomach acid getting into my vocal tract and burning a bunch of tissue and

damaging

my vocal cords. I got the Prevacid two times a day then. I didn't follow up on

the speech

therapy because in the state where I was living then it was just too expensive.

About the sleep apnea- just the possibility of it scares me. I do not have

any

heart problems that I know of, other than an occassioanal high pressure reading

and that

is part of the metabolic syndrome that I am recovering from. I told my PCP about

the Cat

Dream and she said it was a classic symptom of nocturnal asthma attack and put

me on a

long acting bronchodilator which does help. I didn't tell her that I'd been

observed to stop

breathing while asleep and them abruptly start again.

I am fearfull of anything restrictive on me when I sleep.

I honestly would rather risk death or further injury to my body.

I am going to be extreemly brave and tell you WHY.

It is because of very scarey and painful abuse that was done to me as a child.

Cassandra