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To: SnarlinCubBear; Mozie
Mozie suggested that I get tested for sleep apnea. The symptoms are close to what I have so that could be the problem.

All kidding aside, I may have to change pillows when I sleep. Often, I will watch TV with two pillow and fall asleep. I may have to get rid of one pillow before I drift off.

At this point, I'll try anything, including winning the lottery. LOL

54 posted on 03/31/2008 12:56:21 PM PDT by lysie
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To: Molly Pitcher; Neets; The Raven
Rained out.

Torres manages in LA today.

55 posted on 03/31/2008 12:57:34 PM PDT by lysie
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To: lysie
lysie, Mr HOB has severe sleep apnea. For several years, he would wake me simply because I DIDN'T hear him snore. Those were the times he stopped breathing. When I counted to 30 and had to nudge him to "start" him again, I insisted he go to the doctor.

When he was tested, he stopped breathing or came out of rhem sleep 246 times. The tech or doctor told him that was like being wakened every three seconds of sleep in a night. He also stopped breathing for the longest time this center personnel had seen; nearly a minute and a half.

It is not a good thing to have by any means. Mr HOB says he feels like a new person with his machine. I never see him not using it. Unless, of course, he is so tired when he gets up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, that he forgets to put his mask on again. Now, I wake up when I hear him snore.

This is only a problem, when I wake him up and he has his mask on. then we know I've mistaken the dog snoring for him!! LOL!!

59 posted on 03/31/2008 1:52:28 PM PDT by Holding Our Breath
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To: lysie; All

My only experience with sleep apnea is 2nd hand - my stepfather had it. Went on the machine too. I don’t know how anyone can sleep with that noise and mask. I suppose one adjusts.

It’s really scary to think of all the oxygen NOT getting to the brain w/o it.

Mr. Snarly fell and broke his nose, so he uses the Breathe Right strips and loves them.


74 posted on 04/01/2008 6:01:30 PM PDT by SnarlinCubBear (Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass... it's learning to dance in the rain)
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To: lysie
All kidding aside, I may have to change pillows when I sleep.

You might have something there, lysie! Many years back, my wife bought me a "non-snore" pillow. It was higher at the "neck" end and caused my head to tile back. It worked.

101 posted on 04/02/2008 6:25:32 AM PDT by LantzALot (I held out for a Conservative in 1992. What did it get me? Eight Years of Bill Clinton!)
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