Do I need a CPAP?

General Discussion on any topic relating to CPAP and/or Sleep Apnea.
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Re: Do I need a CPAP?

Post by palerider » Wed Dec 17, 2014 2:52 pm

OkyDoky wrote:I didn't reply because his health is his concern (and his eye rolling doctor),
it seems to me that the eyerolling doctor should be a concern.

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Re: Do I need a CPAP?

Post by Greendirt » Fri Dec 19, 2014 6:51 pm

I'm sorry, but he was specifically telling people that if they have heart problems, they may not really have sleep apnea.
I am troubled by that. It is an inaccurate characterization of what I have written.

1. I have only referred to people getting and acting on medical advice.

2. Some people may not fit the 'high AHI = SA = CPAP for life' paradigm. The human body is more complex than that. It has surprises for the best informed of us. The majority here will have been correctly diagnosed and need CPAP, probably for life. But maybe not everyone.

I offered an example of one who was an exception to the rule. I can only leave this for posterity and for anyone else suffering the burden and indignity of passing out in public or at home, being incontinent and hitting their head on the way down. Syncope kills too.

Recounting a doctor's eye roll while he was missing a differential diagnosis might be fodder for internet fun, but it wasn't smart medicine. All I can do is leave something that might prompt a future syncope sufferer with sleep disordered breathing to ask the question as to whether they have sleep apnea or not and to ask the doctors from as informed a position as they can. I didn't have that opportunity and invested too much into what turned out to be the wrong solution for me.

Syncope is bad too.

Thank you, Julie, for the wise words.
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Re: Do I need a CPAP?

Post by Julie » Fri Dec 19, 2014 6:57 pm

And I think you've written a very good note! I worked for 30 yrs with teaching hosp/research docs (among other 'regular' hospital stuff and you're right, things are more complex and we don't yet know it all... and every once in a while something comes up that has (yet) no explanation, but that's not a reason to try and either trash it altogether or stuff it into a known box.