Posted on 11/23/2001 3:12:15 AM PST by auggy
Does anyone have this problem? In my sleep, I bite my tongue. Hard. Bleeding hard. I have ruined many pillow cases with large areas of blood soaked pillow cases. My tongue looks like raw hamburger meat, at times. I tested positive for sleep apnea. I woke an average of 49 times per hour, from lack of oxygen, or unable to breath. I use a breathing machine with a chin strap to help my problem. It helps,but it isn't a 100%. I woke this morning at 3:30 AM and immediately took the pillow case off to soak the stain. I have been up ,since, then. Afraid to go back to sleep. I have been tested for epilepsy. This started in 1990. It has progressively gotten worse.
Sleeping on my side I snore less and have fewer breathing stoppages than I do sleeping on my back. Of course, that's without CPAP. With CPAP, it doesn't matter--I can sleep on my back or on my side.
Oh the first few times >YEARS AGO< were kinda scarey. Now I'm used to it. I can't yell because I can't get my diaphram to move.
The worst I can remember was when I ran along the upstairs hall without breathing. I started to pass out near the top of the stairs and collapsed. As I fell I hit something and that started me breathing again. Just kinda sat there for awhile afterward, afraid to go back to sleep.
That does remind me of something though. Usually after an attack I am VERY tired/exhausted/sleepy.
But like I said, I'm so used to it now it doens't bother me...much.
prisoner6
The problem can be corrected in many cases and I will tell you with absolute certainty it will kill you if you do not have it corrected. The decrease in oxygen saturation your body is subjected to will eventually cause heart failure issues and along the way you will loose your quality of life as we..
If anyone wants to know more please FRmail me. I will be happy to pass along any information that I have regarding this very serious problem
I've been there! Just about. Once I was about to go to the hospital, but it was 4 a.m. and what was I going to do, turn myself over for tests at 4 a.m.?
I was going to die if I went back to sleep.
Going to sleep is trusting to god, that's true for us all, but that night I was so scared it was funny...It sank into me how I didn't have any choice but to go to sleep! HaHa!! Greatest act of Christian Faith in my life, that night when I finally went back to sleep. That's when I read Psalms 1 through 10, while sipping at a bottle of beer. I ended up feeling really really good, and it wasn't so much the beer as the scripture, I swear. Isn't that funny? I knew I had to lay myself down to sleep and pray the Lord my soul to keep. Faith, faith.
Ever since then when I wake up in the morning my first thought is thank you Jesus, another day, thanks. I'm 40, extremely thin, and they say I have a useless thyroid.
I am terrified of business meetings because whenever I start to nod I bellow. It's freaking embarrassing. I feel like I'm nuts.
It works for me. If your wife snores, use the pillow.
Vacuum the rug daily, use a Hepa filter air filter (good ones about $300)and keep the windows shut.
I have a patient who turns her air conditioner in the bedroom on for two hours a night and uses that to filter her air (it has a "fan only" mode). A humidifier or dehumidifier to keep the humidity to 30-50 percent also helps. so do antihistamines like benadryl at bedtime. Or cortisone nose spray (flonase, Nasalcort etc).
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