If you think someone has apnea - read this, please!

[SleeplessinCLE]

I posted here a while ago. I was diagnosed with apnea, but didn't think I really had it because I didn't have the symptoms (snoring, not breathing, etc.).
I went to my GP, had a study done in the hospital this time - and I don't have it. Did the sleep clinic's doctor need money for his kid's college tuition? I don't know. Anyhow, my problem of not being able to fall asleep stemmed from a disc being out in my neck.
But this isn't why I'm posting.

My friend, who snores like a freight train, doesn't sleep more than 3-4 hours per night, and whose husband says she wakes him up because she struggles for air, refused to get a study done.
She's now in rehab because of a stroke. Could this be caused by apnea? I'm pretty sure that that could be the case.

Please!! Beg anyone who has these symptoms to be checked. Not only by a sleep doctor, but also by their GP, and a chiropractor. My friend is now celebrating because after 3 days of rehab she can move her left pinky finger. Don't this happen to anyone else.

[Snoredog]

I had 2 strokes by age of 45 before getting diagnosed with OSA, I had to demand my GP refer me on to a Sleep Specialist.

Funny thing is I haven't had a single TIA since going on the machine.

[RosemaryB]

Does anyone know if there's research on too much blood clotting and sleep apnea? I know some people who have the gene for it. I'm wondering if there's an interactive effect having to do with oxygen deprivation.

[kteague]

Today I was leaving the grocery store in a torrential downpour and a woman asked if there was any chance I was going her way. Not wanting to see her carrying several bags in the rain for over a mile, I took her home. She said she is 39 years old and on disability. She had a laundry list of illnesses, including, having had a heart attack at age 32 and two strokes since. I asked if she knew why she was prone to these events and she said they never told her. I asked if there was any chance she could have sleep apnea, and she said, yes, she used to sleep with a machine but it's in storage. I wanted to scream, but I just told her a few facts and encouraged her to go get her machine out of storage and use it. I could tell it went in one ear and out the other.

[DreamStalker]

Today I was leaving the grocery store in a torrential downpour and a woman asked if there was any chance I was going her way. Not wanting to see her carrying several bags in the rain for over a mile, I took her home. She said she is 39 years old and on disability. She had a laundry list of illnesses, including, having had a heart attack at age 32 and two strokes since. I asked if she knew why she was prone to these events and she said they never told her. I asked if there was any chance she could have sleep apnea, and she said, yes, she used to sleep with a machine but it's in storage. I wanted to scream, but I just told her a few facts and encouraged her to go get her machine out of storage and use it. I could tell it went in one ear and out the other.

That is so sad when you come across those kinds of people ... like they live totally oblivious to their own body ... no connection what so ever ... the truely walking dead

[wabmorgan]

Today I was leaving the grocery store in a torrential downpour and a woman asked if there was any chance I was going her way. Not wanting to see her carrying several bags in the rain for over a mile, I took her home. She said she is 39 years old and on disability. She had a laundry list of illnesses, including, having had a heart attack at age 32 and two strokes since. I asked if she knew why she was prone to these events and she said they never told her. I asked if there was any chance she could have sleep apnea, and she said, yes, she used to sleep with a machine but it's in storage. I wanted to scream, but I just told her a few facts and encouraged her to go get her machine out of storage and use it. I could tell it went in one ear and out the other.

What a SAD story. One would have hoped her doctors had explained how IMPORTANT this is!!!!!!!!!!

[Sergey45]

Anyhow, my problem of not being able to fall asleep stemmed from a disc being out in my neck..

If you can be more specific about it? Because I think I have similar issue. Please PM me if you don’t feel OK to discuss it publicly.
Thanks.