Has anyones "ADHD" gone away after CPAP

Jerseyguy wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 19, 2018 7:54 pm

Yeah let's put them on small doses of a dangerous drug that people get addicted to and we arrest people for if they don't have an RX for. Instead of performing a test or you could even just have the parents record the kid sleeping at night. I'm sure there's a way to set it up cheaply.

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How would the medical cartel get more profit from that?

chunkyfrog wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 20, 2018 3:04 pm

Sure is funny how "let it be" can come out of a hose.

Music?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xDzVZcqtYI

Jerseyguy wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 19, 2018 7:37 pm

Are children with ADHD symptoms tested for OSA these days?

A few pediatricians have figured this out. It will take (is taking) years before sleep studies are required for children (and adults) presenting with symptoms of ADHD and ADD. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opin ... pe=opinion

prodigyplace wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 22, 2018 8:10 am

chunkyfrog wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 20, 2018 3:04 pm

Sure is funny how "let it be" can come out of a hose.

Music?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xDzVZcqtYI

Wasn't there a thread years and years ago about someone who kept hearing faint voices and music whenever they put their CPAP on at night? Turned out it was an unauthorized HAM radio operator doing a late night talk show or something like that and the amped-up radio signal was being picked up by the servo of the CPAP fan and causing it to resonate enough that the person could hear it from the CPAP hose.

Maybe bogus - but I saw your statement about music and "coming out of a hose" and remembered that issue from long ago.

Rest well,

Gryphon

Thanks for bringing this up. I had ADD (non hyperactive) all my life, and my daughter seems to too... Who knows... maybe I always had some level of OSA and it runs in the family... I'll have to get one of those night sleep recording apps (they record when there's snoring). and she if anything comes up for her.

Jerseyguy wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 19, 2018 6:24 pm

Been diagnosed with ADHD since I was 11. Has anyone figured out that there ADHD was really untreated sleep apnea? It can start in childhood.

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I am pretty sure it was Dr. Steven Park's book "Sleep Interrupted" where he wrote about Sleep Apnea in children being misdiagnosed as ADHD.

Cpapian wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 27, 2018 10:14 am

I am pretty sure it was Dr. Steven Park's book "Sleep Interrupted" where he wrote about Sleep Apnea in children being misdiagnosed as ADHD.

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... a study in Pediatrics in 2012 showing that snoring in the first two years of life strongly predicted behavioral problems by age 7.5 Another study published in Pediatrics in 2006 showed that one year after adenotonsillectomy, 50% of children diagnosed before surgery with ADHD no longer had symptoms. ... Not breathing well and not sleeping well can cause physiologic and brain neurotransmitter alterations that can manifest as symptoms of ADHD.

Full article by Dr. Park in Respiratory Care & Sleep Apnea - http://respiratory-care-sleep-medicine. ... -ADHD.aspx

Love how they do all these studies but don't seam to do anything meaningful with the information they glean from the studies. One would think they would go oh crap, that's interesting let's do a bigger study or start checking children or adults in the actual world outside of their closed off little spaces and see if we can do some actual good with the work we did. But it seams as though that's not really happening as of yet. At least not as fast as it should.

Given the cost and "nonevasivnes" of a few nights with a recording oximeter I dont understand why more of the obvious cases of sleep apnea are not caught sooner. You dont have to have a medical license to look at a chart and see if a number goes below a set point. I know oximetry isnt the end all and be all of checking for sleep disordered breathing but heck. Wouldn't it stand a good chance of screening out the bad cases before as much damage is done?


Meh... waiting to see how things go. Loons like the word is sort of spreading but glacially slowly.

Rest well,

Gryphon

nicholasjh1 wrote:Thanks for bringing this up. I had ADD (non hyperactive) all my life, and my daughter seems to too... Who knows... maybe I always had some level of OSA and it runs in the family... I'll have to get one of those night sleep recording apps (they record when there's snoring). and she if anything comes up for her.

Just remember absence of snoring does not indicate absence of sleep apnea.

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