Re: Is brain damage due to sleep apnea reversible?
Posted: Mon May 23, 2022 9:02 am
Speaking of anti anxiety medication, NotNotLaosho wrote:
Untreated sleep apnea means that every night, numerous times every hour, your brain realizes it does not have enough oxygen for it to function properly, and sounds all the physical alarms it can in order to arouse you from your sleep, and get you breathing properly.
Every night, many times an hour, your brain -- the conscious and unconscious parts of it are responding with alarm to real suffocation.
That very objective state of being almost suffocated is alarming -- and is a clear cause of (and for) anxiety.
You haven't been diagnosed yet, but, if you spend your nights in a struggle to get enough oxygen, then you are clearly, and justifiably convinced that life is frightening, and words won't help to alleviate that, since you body knows better.
Once there's not enough oxygen, your wise brain, whose role is to make sure all of you is properly taken care of, is warning you very clearly that there are dire dangers around.
You won't be the first one whose anxiety calms down once you sleep properly, without the physical danger.
If you have sleep apnea, it's no wonder you don't trust what your doctor is saying, nor the papers you read. If you're living with numerous suffocation episodes every night, your brain is informing you, loud and clear that relaxing your guard brings about danger. The objective danger, at this point is lack of oxygen, and following on that, fragmented sleep.
Fragmented sleep also effects your cognitive functioning. Anyone's cognitive functioning
And the change will have to be something you experience - uninterrupted sleep, where all of you has the amount of oxygen it need.
NotNotLaosho wrote: ↑Mon May 23, 2022 6:24 amI made a promise to myself when I was able to get off these drugs, that I would never take them again.
Do you realize what having sleep apnea means?NotNotLaosho wrote: ↑Sun May 22, 2022 12:53 pmI don't care about anxiety as long as my cognitive abilities are back to where they were two years ago. I saw a pulmonologist last Monday and my sleep study is scheduled for mid-June.
Untreated sleep apnea means that every night, numerous times every hour, your brain realizes it does not have enough oxygen for it to function properly, and sounds all the physical alarms it can in order to arouse you from your sleep, and get you breathing properly.
Every night, many times an hour, your brain -- the conscious and unconscious parts of it are responding with alarm to real suffocation.
That very objective state of being almost suffocated is alarming -- and is a clear cause of (and for) anxiety.
You haven't been diagnosed yet, but, if you spend your nights in a struggle to get enough oxygen, then you are clearly, and justifiably convinced that life is frightening, and words won't help to alleviate that, since you body knows better.
Once there's not enough oxygen, your wise brain, whose role is to make sure all of you is properly taken care of, is warning you very clearly that there are dire dangers around.
You won't be the first one whose anxiety calms down once you sleep properly, without the physical danger.
If you have sleep apnea, it's no wonder you don't trust what your doctor is saying, nor the papers you read. If you're living with numerous suffocation episodes every night, your brain is informing you, loud and clear that relaxing your guard brings about danger. The objective danger, at this point is lack of oxygen, and following on that, fragmented sleep.
Fragmented sleep also effects your cognitive functioning. Anyone's cognitive functioning
You may be putting the cart before the horses here.... Anxiety is there to tell you something is wrong, and something must be done.NotNotLaosho wrote: ↑Sun May 22, 2022 12:53 pmI don't care about anxiety as long as my cognitive abilities are back to where they were two years ago.
And the change will have to be something you experience - uninterrupted sleep, where all of you has the amount of oxygen it need.