NotNotLaosho wrote: ↑Wed May 18, 2022 1:30 pm
Is brain damage due to sleep apnea reversible?
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But knowing that this study was supported by [...]
I have a doubt about its reliability
I prefer to be wary. I am really scared that my cognitive abilities will not return to normal, even after treatment.
I'm afraid I won't understand what I used to understand easily.
It's encouraging (like all the stories I've read here and there) but it's still an anecdote, hence my research. But it at least gives me hope. Thank you
The study is also funded by [...], so I'm just as suspicious of it.
Even if you look for more recent stuff, there's nothing like this. At best it's a partial cure, at worst it doesn't cure. Complete recovery of cognitive abilities and brain damage seems to be something controversial.
{all added emphasis is mine}
I doubt there is anything in research that will make you less wary, less suspiciuos, less scared of the loss of your cognitive assets.
You are clearly terrified, and trying to find answers in a way that must have worked very well for you in the past.
However, from an academic perspective,you have no reason to trust anything anyone on this forum says to you. There is such a a thing as cognitive dissonance, you know, and you can always say that the people reporting success are simply convincing themselves something is good simply because they've invested in it. Those who haven't succeeded with their therapy have probably dropped off from this forum long ago - the
anecdotes on this forum are far from being a representative sample of anything.
Bottom line: there is no end to the ways information can be distrusted or denied.
What you
can get from this forum is ideas for you try out in your one and only, singular, statistically non-exitant case of one. Your case of one should be your major research project now. Don't confuse descriptive statistics, and research on populations, with the research you need to go through to improve your very own case of one therapy. It's up to you to decide whether you want to invest time and thought in focusing on your own therapy to get the best you can out of it.
A discussion of the controversies or lack or reliability of the research - or of members responses for that matter - will not get you far in improving your therapy in a way that will give
you the best chance of healing.
None of us knows whether you have brain damage due to your sleep apnea. None of us knows whether any damage you may have is reversible. None of us can promise you you will improve.
Those of us here can only tell you they've found their personal struggle to improve their own therapy worth it - and many of us want to help others the way we ourselves have been helped here.
It's a case of "this is what for worked for me in my specific conditions, maybe it could work for you should you want to try it".
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Good advice is compromised by missing data
Forum member Dog Slobber Nov. 2023
