Great new book about sleep apnea

[Bonnie]

Welcome to the forum. Why don't you tell us a little about yourself and your apnea.? How did you come to decided on this book? Can you share some of the information you found in the book? We here are always wanting to know about information that is being talked/written about.

[painfree]

I bought this book because as a former sleep apnea sufferer, I have an interest in the subject, because it is not very long so it should not be very difficult to get through, and because I wouldn't regret having spent only 10 bucks if the book disappointed me. But the book didn't disappoint me - far from it. It substantiated what I had noted in my own experience, namely that gout attacks can be caused by sleep apnea. There is other stuff there too which struck a responsive chord in me.

[Guest]

I bought this book because as a former sleep apnea sufferer, I have an interest in the subject, because it is not very long so it should not be very difficult to get through, and because I wouldn't regret having spent only 10 bucks if the book disappointed me. But the book didn't disappoint me - far from it. It substantiated what I had noted in my own experience, namely that gout attacks can be caused by sleep apnea. There is other stuff there too which struck a responsive chord in me.

What did you do, have a miracle or something? This disease can't be cured.

[gtaro]

In my best cynical tone:

New book appears on Amazon.
New poster appears on CPAPTalk.
New poster suggests new book.

Odd.

[DreamStalker]

I bought this book because as a former sleep apnea sufferer, I have an interest in the subject, because it is not very long so it should not be very difficult to get through, and because I wouldn't regret having spent only 10 bucks if the book disappointed me. But the book didn't disappoint me - far from it. It substantiated what I had noted in my own experience, namely that gout attacks can be caused by sleep apnea. There is other stuff there too which struck a responsive chord in me.

What did you do, have a miracle or something? This disease can't be cured.

Actually there is sort of a cure ... poster could have had a tracheostomy.

[Wulfman]

FYI

Our poster "painfree" is Burton Abrams......doing a little self-promotion.
He didn't "come across the book" he wrote/published it. (according to his own words)

Burton,
I think we'd all appreciate a little more honesty from the people who post here.....it'll give you a little more credibility......but on the other hand, any additional attention that can be brought to the attention of the general public about this medical condition can be appreciated.


Den


Some of the links that came up when I did a search on the book's title.


http://www.freewebs.com/goutcure/


http://stageoflife.parade.com/articles/ ... sk_Marilyn
Sleep apnea
By painfree on 4/14/2007 8:58:AM
Your comment that sleep apnea affects 5% of the adult population in the US is true for severity lavels that are at least considered to be moderate. A paper titled Epidemiology of Sleep Apnea in a 2002 issue of the American Journal of Critical Care Medicine reports that 20% of the US adult population has sleep apnea at severity levels that are considered to be mild, or stronger. Furthermore, even mild sleep apnea is associated with significant morbidity. These data are cause for alarm, which is why I published the book The Perils of Sleep Apnea--An Undiagnosed Epidemic.


http://www.talkaboutsleep.com/message-b ... hp?t=20926


http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/cgi-bin/it ... eBook.html

Burton Abrams says:
April 25th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Heart disease has been reported for several years in medical journals to be strongly associated with long-term sleep apnea, even though most cardiologists have not yet caught up with that information. And as I have written elsewhere on this website, many attacks of gout are a direct result of sleep apnea the previous night. Both conditions are discussed in my new book The Perils of Sleep Apnea - An Undiagnosed Epidemic.