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by helen_b
Fri Jan 14, 2005 12:48 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: About to have my first night at home with the CPAP...
Replies: 21
Views: 6723

Wow, this is scary stuff. I'm expecting that whenever I start treatment, life will change slowly. After years of stress on all the endocrine, immune, etc etc systems in my body, I'm expecting that improvement will not come overnight. What is most upsetting, is that my symptoms have been blamed on so...
by helen_b
Fri Jan 14, 2005 12:37 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: struggling sleeping, still
Replies: 2
Views: 2228

struggling sleeping, still

Craig C, have you been properly diagnosed as far as other physical problems? Do you have fibromyalgia? Chronic sinusitis? Anything that is hurting that you ignore all day long by tuning it out? Constant low-level pain or discomfort makes it very hard to fall asleep. Are you getting enough calcium an...
by helen_b
Fri Jan 14, 2005 12:21 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Canadians
Replies: 23
Views: 5129

Canadians

OMG, what a snake pit.I won't get to try a machine of any kind until my second sleep study in April. I live in a border city, and shop in the US all the time, order on line and have things shipped to a US address, etc. Canadian prices are high on just about everything. I bought a Lightbook last year...
by helen_b
Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:59 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: oral appliance for sleep apnea-anyone tried one?
Replies: 4
Views: 2193

oral appliance for sleep apnea-anyone tried one?

I was just diagnosed with severe sleep apnea, two months after my sleep study was done, which was months after my initial consult. Now I'm booked for another sleep study to try out a CPAP machine, I think, but not until April. Must be nice to get fast attention to this problem.I have been complainin...