Help needed! OSA

[Dlar2]

Obstructive Sleep Apnea

 

Anyone here suffering from it and seeking treatment?

Do you do on machine or surgery?

[Lex250]

Obstructive Sleep Apnea

 

Anyone here suffering from it and seeking treatment?

Do you do on machine or surgery?

 

 

Have u been dignosed with this? Sleep clinic?

 

Step 1 is CPAP machine...exercise loose weight, etc

 

step 2 If step 1 does not work - surgery though no gaurantee of success from stopping it totally. not a precise science yet

[Jchuacl]

For mild cases, surgery might help depending on case to case.

for serious case, cpap is recommended, and sometimes surgery is required to correct underlying problems such as deviated septum.

Typically, a sleep study is required first to determine how serious it is.

 

For me, i have used cpap for more than 5 years and quite happy with it

 

Obstructive Sleep Apnea

 

Anyone here suffering from it and seeking treatment?

Do you do on machine or surgery?

Edited April 12, 2010 by Jchuacl

[Qpik]

my nephew has it. luckily he was sharing bed with his parents otherwise he wld probably hv died in his sleep. subsequently he had to go for surgery after sleep study diagnosed it as serious.

 

btw, my nephew is nt fat too begin with so we can conclude the surgery is a success as it doesn't happen anymore n now he is in p4.

[Jchuacl]

Death is unlikely. For serious case, surgery will not help in the long term due to muscle sagging as you age.

 

my nephew has it. luckily he was sharing bed with his parents otherwise he wld probably hv died in his sleep. subsequently he had to go for surgery after sleep study diagnosed it as serious.

 

btw, my nephew is nt fat too begin with so we can conclude the surgery is a success as it doesn't happen anymore n now he is in p4.