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How much do you know about Sleep Apnea?
Did you know that Sleep Apnea is a serious and deadly disease which affects many Americans who aren’t even aware of it? The symptoms include snoring, daytime drowsiness/sleepiness, cessation of breathing during sleep, night sweats, morning headaches, loss of concentration and many others. I have lost two friends in the past two years to Sleep Apnea. Both were diagnosed and refused to use their CPAP machines. I was diagnosed in 2000 and use a CPAP every time I sleep.
Dear 70’s ,
Thanks for the post. I applaud your effort to education and enlightenment of the Yahoo community about the serious consequences of sleep apnea. I really applaud your effort to stay on your treatment and educate others about the profound effects sleep apnea has physiologically and psychologically.
Many people are not aware of the psychological consequences of the disease and remain untreated, grouchy, sleep-deprived and progress into depression secondary to the disease itself.
With the improvement in equipment (CPAP/BI-LEVEL), Masks and humidifiers, I only hope that patients are taking advantage of their insurance benefits and getting replacements regularly. I always found the better fit and benefits of the equipment, the greater success a patient had to continue. Insurance companies generally will replace such items every six months with a prescription from a physician. Support groups are also a Hugh success and continue to help people through the difficult transition of learning about the disease.
Humidifiers increase the comfort level of the CPAP/Bi-level and many patients who swore they could NEVER use CPAP have became faithful Bi-level users.
Communication with the physician over problems is critical to using any medication or device successfully.
In my profession, we were taught the more informed a patient is, the more likely they will comply with treatment options. We developed the first non-profit school in the world to train physicians and technologists how to give patent’s options, education and participation in their treatment of sleep-related disorders.
As in every profession, not all physician’s are great sleep physicians nor all sleep centers “good centers”. Many times that can attribute to failure for patients. The ASDA “American Sleep Disorder Association” has lists of all credentialed physician’s, technologists and centers in the world. It is in anyone’s best interest to make sure the people who are caring for them have the proper credentials and the center has met full accreditation standards.
I have enclosed some links for you and anyone else interested in sleep related disorders as well as a patient conference coming up soon for patients with sleep disorders.
Thanks for taking the time to talk about a subject so dear to my heart and profession.
Regards!
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/sleepapnea.html
http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/apnea.html
http://sleepdisorders.about.com/cs/sleepapne1/a/sleepapnea.htm
http://www.sleepapnea.org/info/
http://www.sleepfoundation.org/sleeptionary/index.php?id=10
http://www.americansleepassociation.org/
http://www.healthfinder.gov/orgs/HR2093.htm
http://www.talkaboutsleep.com/sleep-disorders/archives/Snoring
_apnea_AASM.htm
Dr. William C. Dement Joins in the National Patient Sleep ConferenceTalk About Sleep Founder and President Dr. James C. O’Brien announced today that the world renowned sleep authority, Dr. William C. Dement, will be the honored keynote speaker at the inaugural National Patient Sleep Conference on October 27-29th in Minneapolis.
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