Posted on 07/05/2019 1:48:23 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Researchers have found that continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) can improve depression symptoms in patients suffering from cardiovascular diseases.
Using data from the Sleep Apnea Cardiovascular Endpoints (SAVE) trial led by Flinders University, the new study has found a significant decrease in cases of depression after patients received CPAP treatment for their sleep apnea.
This is by far the largest trial of its type and one of very few studies reporting such an effect, says Professor Doug McEvoy from Flinders University.
From detailed analysis of the SAVE data, Flinders University experts and collaborators at the George Institute have found that CPAP for moderate-severe OSA in patients with cardiovascular disease has broader benefits in terms of preventing depression, independent of improved sleepiness.
Prior studies investigating the effect of CPAP on mood with various experimental designs and length of follow-up periods have yielded heterogenous results.
"Patients who have had a stroke or heart attack are prone to suffer from low mood and are 2 to 3 times more likely to develop clinical depression, which then further elevates their risk of future heart attacks and strokes," says SAVE principal investigator Professor McEvoy, a senior author in the paper just published by The Lancet in EClinicalMedicine.
With up to 50% of patients with CV disease likely to have OSA, the study is "welcome news that treatment of OSA substantially relieves cardiovascular patients' depressive symptoms and improves their wellbeing".
"After following them for an average of 3.7 years, we found that CPAP provided significant reductions in depression symptoms compared with those who were not treated for OSA. The improvement for depression was apparent within six months and was sustained."
As expected, those with lower mood scores to start with appeared to get the greatest benefit.
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If you’re feeling bad and run down it may be sleep apnea. After I started using a CPAP things improved quite a lot.
CPAP has done a lot of good for me.
I was actually looking into CPAPs earlier today.
I was told about 10 years ago that I should use one but I didn’t feel comfortable with them on. I am told they are much better now so I am thinking of giving it another try.
When my wife let me know she could not sleep with my snoring, I told my doctor about it. He recommended a sleep-test. The testing revealed that I did indeed have sleep apnea. He had two recommendations:
lose lard and use a CPAP machine.
Such good advice. My wife can now relax and get rest, and I feel so much better.
I had a tough start too. Eventually my doctor convinced me it wasn’t optional so I took anther shot at it. Now I’m at a point where I can’t sleep without it.
Ok, gotta wise off. Thought the title was CRAP provides relief from depression. Perhaps if it’s been a couple days... Must get new glasses!
My story as well.
I’ll have to look into that one. My central sleep apnea was mild enough that the doctor didn’t want to prescribe a CPAP, but I’m still sure I’d sleep better with one.
In the sleep study, I only stopped breathing one to two times per hour, but one of those was for 13 seconds. And I’m aware of it happening when I’m asleep, always have been. Which is probably why I was afraid to sleep when I was a kid, but when I was little my doctor told me I was imagining it.
I think I am heading in the same direction.
Most of the time I feel like I haven’t slept when I get up.
You need to do it. You’ll be glad you did.
There are a few tricks to it. It took two times for it to take on me. If you have some acid reflex it will fix that too.
Citrus wipes every night will keep your mask good for months.
I think so too. I travel a lot too and they seem more travel friendly now than they did 10 years ago.
I just started dating after my wife died almost two years ago. I went to comfort a female friend who was having a migraine.
She kicked me out because I stopped breathing several times without my CPAP.
She is gone, but I am still kicking rear-end and taking names.
Maybe it's me, but I'm not up for a third attempt to smother. I'm divorced, and have no desire to grab another hot stove, so, there is that. I don't have to deal with someone else's crazy.
25 years ago, I gained about 10 pounds and started snoring at night and for me on the depressive side.
My wife told me to lose weight and I did, and my snoring got worse. our FP connected me with a Sleep Center Doc out of Stanford. We picked up a sleep monitor and spent the weekend in Carmel. I dropped the machine off at his office Monday, and he said that I had severe sleep apnea.
He lined me up to try/rent a machine in my hometown. It was uncomfortable to use. However, the guys who owned the CP business were friends and former customers. They made several house calls and got me stabilized and using a water heater and a heated hose warm up the air to about 68-70 degrees.
They were great, and helped me to up grade to better machines, masks, hoses and head gear.
They sold out to a group of crooks. They wanted me to have a weekly visit with a non nurse to take my BP once to twice a week and charge me $50/visit. My wife was a life time RN and took BP’s in a busy FP medical practice office, and they said I had to use their GED non nurse. My doctor and local lawyer took care of that. Later a new machine died and shorted out after a few months. They denied that it was the machine, which it turned out to be.
My FP and I went to an evening class for a couple of weeks to learn what to do and not to do. In the meantime several online providers were selling good Cpap equipment to end users after they received an RX from the patient’s doctor.
So I have been doing that for a couple of decades. A lot of the gear can be ordered from Amazon without and an RX.
My current and best ever CPAP machine is a Phillips Dream Station with a heated filtered water container, with the heated hose and the Wisp mask.
Each morning on my smart phone I get a read out about the # of apneas and other data on my smart phone. Once a month, I download that that data on my Chromebook and up to the Cloud. My doctor can look at it via the internet. That makes it like going to a sleep lab every night in your own bed.
My wife can usually predict what the daily printout will look like.
We have had multiple forest fires for two summers/falls in a roll. The filtering and humidifying system removes the pollen and I have minimal problems with the fallout.
This year after a heavy rainy winter/spring, our pollen counts are off the wall. However the cpap machine’s filtering and humidifying system removes the pollen enabling me to have a good night’s sleep. Apparently, some docs have cracked this code for allergic patients.
If you need a Cpap machine get one and use it for better living for you and your spouse.
I had OSA for years.
Cervical pillow plus Water/Salt protocol took care of it completely. No CPAP.
See Fereydoon Batmanghelidj: Your Body’s Many Cries for Water.
watercure.com. watercure2.org.
Don’t know what I would do without my CPAP. Can’t sleep without it anymore. I’m worried that it might conk out on me and I’ll have to suffer while I go through the process of getting a new one.
Yeah, they're definitely a little weird at first. Not nearly so weird as the telephone poles, other vehicles, one dump truck and various crap I hit, hard, before I got enough sense knocked into me to "apply myself" to the endeavor. d;^)
dainbramage- 57 ties an hour, eh? Amateur. Hehehe.
Try 97x per hour. How does somebody even do that? The original doc who dignosed me back in '93 said that I hadn't slept in something like 7 years. Not sure how he figured that, but it was gettin ridiculous. Fell asleep in the middle of a conversation regularly. Also fell asleep driving, even while driving a Harley a coupla times. It's a bad thing to wake up just in time to see a dump truck ass end filling your view.
Good to see folks here who need are trying it. It's a life saver. d:^)
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