Your Responsibility as the Captain of your condition (OSA)

SelfSeeker · Post by **SelfSeeker** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:00 pm

Notes from the conference.

Your Responsibility as the Captain of your condition

- Tell ALL your doctors of your sleep apnea

- Inform your spouse, family members about the details.

- Avoid narcotics and pain rx example morphine

- Avoid sleeping pills (Do not suddenly stop, talk to your Dr.)

- Avoid alcoholic beverages

- If you smoke, quit smoking

- Avoid sleeping in high altitude

- Bring CPAP everywhere

- Keep or reach a healthy Weight

- Have your blood pressure checked yearly

- Avoid driving until your sleepiness decreases.

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DreamStalker · Post by **DreamStalker** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:34 pm

SelfSeeker wrote:Notes from the conference. ...

- Avoid sleeping in altitude

Is that supposed to be Avoid sleeping at high altitudes or is there a different meaning here?

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SelfSeeker · Post by **SelfSeeker** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:42 pm

opps, yes. I will make the correction.

dllfo · Post by **dllfo** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:04 pm

I do all that and more. I have a printout of all my prescriptions, the dr. name and specialty with phone number.

And I have called all my doctors to tell them I have sleep apnea.

Morphine, I am trying to get off it. It is hard on our respiratory systems, but
due to withdrawals, I am stuck on it awhile longer.

I can't find a weight chart that takes into account our age, etc. when I got out of the Air Force, 194 was my ceiling weight. I weighed 174 then, but have went up big time due to prednisone. I am about 206 now. I am also 19 years older.

Anyone know where we can find a semi-accurate or realistic weight/height chart?
I have seen them that say a 61 year old man who is 5'9" should weigh 165 pounds. My bones weigh that much

SelfSeeker · Post by **SelfSeeker** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:07 pm

Good luck with the morphine.

dllfo do a google search for BMI. Body mass index. it will give a range.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:35 pm

I was always under the impression that sleeping pills are okay if your on effective XPAP therapy.

As a matter of fact, wouldn't they increase the effectiveness of the time spent sleeping, again, assuming effective xpap treatment is being used? Perhaps it would vary with the type of sleeping medication that one takes....

Stryker5777

Stryker5777 · Post by **Stryker5777** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:37 pm

okay, automatically got logged out there... the above post was me.

Stryker5777

Snoredog · Post by **Snoredog** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:08 pm

I have OSA, I'm not dead.

ozij · Post by **ozij** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 1:53 am

- Avoid sleeping in high altitude

High altitude should be defined in this sentence. I mean, lots of people live, sleep and have their apnea treated perfectly well in places like Denver (mile high...).

And, for those who don't know yet: most modern machines have an automatic altitude ajustment - though it's limited, and the manual will say up to which height.

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