Poll Re: Apnea and Your Weight

Apparently that bicycle route never goes by the clinic or the DME. DUMB!

I'm not overweight, am an athlete, and still have events. I know this because my machine reports log events and my sleep study showed them too. The less body fat and increased fitness since beginning on apap 8 years ago has helped but not cured it.

I do believe having too much body fat can increase apnea events and being fit in some cases can decrease events. Only a sleep test will tell to what extent.

By the way, bicycling is great exercise, but stationary cycling, rowing, weight bearing exercise, and just using our own body weight can achieve the same results if done properly.

90 miles riding his new bike, but still can't figure how to ride it to his doctor, or his DME. Maybe he needs a road map. Jim

Goofproof wrote:90 miles riding his new bike, but still can't figure how to ride it to his doctor, or his DME. Maybe he needs a road map. Jim

Are you channeling my beloved and sorely missed Snoredog?

gasp wrote:

Goofproof wrote:90 miles riding his new bike, but still can't figure how to ride it to his doctor, or his DME. Maybe he needs a road map. Jim

Are you channeling my beloved and sorely missed Snoredog?

If so I would be in good company, maybe someday! Jim

gasp wrote:I'm not overweight, am an athlete, and still have events. I know this because my machine reports log events and my sleep study showed them too. The less body fat and increased fitness since beginning on apap 8 years ago has helped but not cured it.

True 'dat!
I've cycled a few miles, pre and post OSA diag.
I accomplished pre-miles on shear determination and love of being on the bike.
In the first 5yrs, post OSA and start of cpap, I logged 25K miles.
Those miles did nothing to "cure" the OSA.....but
cpap did wonders to enable and make those miles so enjoyable.
....and after a few years caring for my family, I'm clawing my way back.

gasp wrote:and just using our own body weight can achieve the same results if done properly.

....yoga, Zen of the Pike.
...by all means, do something.
I'll see you on the road.

Heart Jumping wrote:I've read that there is often a correlation between being overweight and suffering from apnea. I know that anyone can have apnea and that it is not caused by being overweight, but there is a correlation. I'd like to do an informal poll here to see how many here are overweight. In my case I'm about about 50 pounds overweight.

Thanks

I lost 30 lbs. and it made no difference in my numbers. Was able to tie my shoelaces better.

I think its fine to do informal unscientific poles. This one gives us some idea that sleep apnea may NOT always be correlated with weight. Because of my average and appropriate weight, my doctor was hesitant to have me do the test - but once I did it i fulfilled every sleep apnea criteria within 45 minutes. Cpap has rocked my world in a very positive way, DESPITE the old wives tale of needing to be overweight.

Goofproof wrote:90 miles riding his new bike, but still can't figure how to ride it to his doctor, or his DME. Maybe he needs a road map. Jim

I rode my bike to my last CPAP checkup... doc is a pulmonologist. Another (out of shape) patient in the waiting room told me "There's nobody quite so annoying as a good example".

I am almost certain my hypopnea is due to my Lyme Disease. Apnea/hypopnea is very common in late stages of Lyme, and can almost always be cured with 3 weeks of a combination of several antibiotics, all of which I am allergic to.

Lyme is far more common than most people think and is not just carried by ticks. IMO, If you have apnea/hypopnea without a significant weight problem, I would look up a list of Lyme symptoms and if you have even a few of them, get properly tested, and by properly, I mean a western blot with ALL the bands, not the worthless Elisa test. IgeneX labs in Palo Alto, CA is the best place for this and if you phone them they'll help with how to have it shipped from your local lab.

Just because something is present with a disease, doesn't make it the cause of the disease and it's long been shown that weight is NOT the cause of apnea, rather if anything, apnea might be the cause of the weight. The whole Lyme theory here is nonsense.

Btw, spam is not allowed here, so peddle your blots somewhere else.

Wow, I am not selling anything at all, nor did I suggest at all that all Lyme causes all apnea. Thanks for making me cry. Since my opinion is not wanted her, I will leave and will not be back.

klutzo wrote: Thanks for making me cry. Since my opinion is not wanted her, I will leave and will not be back.

wow...

Julie, you heartless OGRE! you destroyed someone on the internet!

such an innocent, delicate flower, and you ripped it out of the ground, stomped it flat and salted the earth for miles around!!! (it sounds like).

it's a good thing you didn't actually say anything mean... might have caused a localized implosion!

I'd claim PMS, but that went long ago... what can I say?

Julie wrote:I'd claim PMS, but that went long ago... what can I say?

that maybe some people shouldn't be on the internet without peril sensitive sunglasses?