I have mentioned this before, but it's on topic. At one point I saw a comment online that the ocular motility disorder known as esotropic strabismus had a high enough correlation with OSA that any optometrist seeing a child with the condition should recommend the child be evaluated for OSA. So, espe...

a few years ago I was telling my mother that they had begun to treat some children with OSA by removing adenoids. She gave me a strange look and then told me that twice when I was 4 or 5 years old they took me to the doctor to see about my adenoids because I had trouble breathing when I slept. I was...

yes, this is why I finally took serious steps to get diagnosed. I believe it is caused by significant hypoxia. After being awake for a few hours your brain has been treated to normal oxygen levels and comes back to life.

another endless debate my original study showed an AHI of 100 supine, but ZERO non-supine. 90% pressure 6, 100% setting of 7 - doctor prescribed 8. Obviously non-supine pressure requirement was ZERO. Since I was 4 years old I could have been sleeping on the sofa on my side and I would have never suf...

my sleep study was 18 years ago, started cpap Feb 23 '93 my original study: AHI supine - 100 (yes, one hundred per hour) AHI non-supine - Zero, nil, zilch, NOT one apnea or hypopnea while on my sides 90% pressure - 6 cm 100% pressure - 7 cm doctor prescribed 8 This is why I HAVE to use APAP. I have ...

what finally got me to conduct my own sleep study at home in '92 (I rented a VHS videocam) was morning headache/fog. Specifically the fact that quite often I was seriously non-functional at work in the morning, most of my work was accomplished in the afternoons. It is now quite obvious this was due ...

Just realized I never updated this topic. Many of you will have seen news stories in recent years about many eye problems that can be caused by sleep apnea in children. I came across one article (guess I didn't save the link and I can't find it now) that stated that children having one particular ey...

I watch a lot of news. I still haven't seen or read a specialist in insurance theory provide the basic principles of what risks are good candidates for insurance. I took a course in university called Risk and Insurance, but that was over 30 years ago, so I apologize in advance for my ineloquent atte...

Not sure if this link will work, but it is to a recent study that showed significant improvements in severity of OSA after weight loss, and some complete elimination of the condition. If the link doesn't work I will try a different one. http://www.weightlosstriumph.com/can-weight-loss-cure-sleep-apn...

I quit using a passover humidifier completely 2 or 4 yrs ago. Before that I used it in the winter when the inside humidity gets down to 20%. What changed? My solution was to turn off the heat register in my bedroom in the winter, temperature would drop to 60 F and 40% humidity when the rest of the h...

I think an autopap would be better, to record what pressure it adjusts to. After I got fed up with telling doctors I was tired all the time and getting nowhere I rented a video camera in 92 and recorded myself sleeping. At 100 AHI supine it wasn't hard to identify that I had OSA. I gave the tape to ...

do you suspect that you had sleep apnea as a child? Maybe even slight hypoxia in a young child can lead to vascular and neuroligical defects that result in these ocular symptoms.

often called (incorrectly) lazy eye. Often called wall eyed, or turned out eye. Just curious to see if anyone else who had OSA as a child also has this eye problem? Some recent research linking other eye problems to OSA (although they didn't mention strabismus). Retinopathy of Prematurity is caused ...

there are a lot of videos about circular breathing on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmS7Rlc ... re=related

below is a link to a story from '06 about the top ten NON exercise and nutrition causes of obesity. Number 1 was sleep deprivation. So there is an argument that if all other factors are constant, cpap should lead to weight loss. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5546074 I was int...