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blizzardboy wrote:What do you make of it all...

Well, for now, watch what (and how much) you eat. Weight gain can sneak right up on you while you're taking steroids.

Muffy

Muffy wrote:Well, for now, watch what (and how much) you eat. Weight gain can sneak right up on you while you're taking steroids.

Thanks for that Muffy. My GP said that I would only be on the steroids for a few weeks, or else I might end up with a big torso and skinny arms and legs ...makes me think of a pumpkin with toothpicks stuck into it...good grief Charlie Brown! Cheers,

blizzardboy wrote:

Muffy wrote:Well, for now, watch what (and how much) you eat. Weight gain can sneak right up on you while you're taking steroids.

Thanks for that Muffy. My GP said that I would only be on the steroids for a few weeks, or else I might end up with a big torso and skinny arms and legs ...makes me think of a pumpkin with toothpicks stuck into it...good grief Charlie Brown! Cheers,

I was thinking more along the line that a hefty weight gain (so to speak) would increase the severity of your obstructive component.

On a side note, looks like just you and me left in "TBT".

Seems everybody else has gravitated to the "Pat Down" and "I'm Leaving""I'm Really Leaving""OK, Now I'm REALLY Leaving" threads.

If you ask me, I feel for the TSA guys (and gals).

Some of them funky ol' racks I wouldn't want to poke with a stick much less be diggin' around with my hands, latex gloves or not.

I mean, you'd be lucky if all that fell outta there was explosives.

Muffy

Hey Jeff, tell Banyon that given the duration of his HR increases on his oximetry, they're probably periods of Wake (not respiratory events).

I'll bet he has fair to poor sleep quality.

Muffy

Muffy wrote:Some of them funky ol' racks I wouldn't want to poke with a stick much less be diggin' around with my hands, latex gloves or not...I mean, you'd be lucky if all that fell outta there was explosives.

Aaah Muffy, you crack me up!

Muffy wrote:On a side note, looks like just you and me left in "TBT".

I think the troops are holding - Braveheart style - until a juicy new revelation in BB's internals hits the deck.

Muffy wrote:Seems everybody else has gravitated to the "Pat Down" and "I'm Leaving""I'm Really Leaving""OK, Now I'm REALLY Leaving" threads.

On the other hand...

Muffy wrote:Hey Jeff, tell Banyon that given the duration of his HR increases on his oximetry, they're probably periods of Wake (not respiratory events)...I'll bet he has fair to poor sleep quality.

Banyon, hey BANYON! Muffy says that given how long your ticker races you've probably risen up to stage 0 so don't worry that you're breathing badly - oh, and that your sleep INWTPTIWO.

(BB scratches his head wondering how Muffy determined that his name could be Jeff... , probably thought I was one of the Wiggles..."wake up, etc")

Muffy wrote:On a side note, looks like just you and me left in "TBT".

Hi Muffy, So have you had many clients presenting with sleep disorders associated with rheumatoid arthritis, or arthritis generally?

blizzardboy wrote:

Muffy wrote:On a side note, looks like just you and me left in "TBT".

Hi Muffy, So have you had many clients presenting with sleep disorders associated with rheumatoid arthritis, or arthritis generally?

Is that the autoimmune equivalent of "So, do you come here often?"

Muffy

Muffy wrote:

blizzardboy wrote:

Muffy wrote:On a side note, looks like just you and me left in "TBT".

Hi Muffy, So have you had many clients presenting with sleep disorders associated with rheumatoid arthritis, or arthritis generally?

Is that the autoimmune equivalent of "So, do you come here often?"

I'll have what she's having.

Alpha intrusions are associated with pain syndromes.

SleepingUgly wrote:Alpha intrusions are associated with pain syndromes.

Hi SU, So just imagine what my alpha intrusions might have look like on a PSG if taken during the acute bouts of my joint pain, remembering that I wasn't experiencing any joint pain when I had my initial PSGs. I think I am sleeping deeper since I started on the oral steroid (prednisone).

p.s. sorry to hear you have been having a hard time post op. Took me a bout 2-3 months before I started to feel my septoplasty and turbinate reduction was a success. Along the way I had a big posterior nose bleed (much drama that night ) and later had to go back and have a strip of resulting scar tissue cut out inside my nose. All the best with your recovery!

blizzardboy wrote:Hi SU, So just imagine what my alpha intrusions might have look like on a PSG if taken during the acute bouts of my joint pain, remembering that I wasn't experiencing any joint pain when I had my initial PSGs. I think I am sleeping deeper since I started on the oral steroid (prednisolone)

I had alpha intrusions noted on my sleep studies dating back to 1995, and only started having pain in 2006. I don't know if I'll manage to get off Neurontin because when I started tapering, I got more pain (and I didn't have pain when I went on it in the first place). Maybe alpha intrusions are like prophecies...

p.s. sorry to hear you have been having a hard time post op. Took me a bout 2-3 months before I started to feel my septoplasty and turbinate reduction was a success. Along the way I had a big posterior nose bleed (much drama that night ) and later had to go back and have a strip of resulting scar tissue cut out inside my nose. All the best with your recovery!

Oy, thanks for telling me THAT! How many days post-op were you? I am not finding the septoplasty/turbinate portion of the surgery very difficult to cope with... It's the tonsillectomy/pharyngoplasty that has been rough.

SleepingUgly wrote:Maybe alpha intrusions are like prophecies...

Naturally when one finds oneself diagnosed with condition X one looks back through one's annals and looks for hints as the time of genesis of The X Factor...for quite a few years now I have been unable to kneel on my knees without padding on the floor because of pain, a feature I associated with my lower back/sciatica issues. Maybe my knees have been inflamed for a while? Maybe I have been in the early stages of rheumatoid arthritis for a while now? These and more exciting questions will (hopefully) be answered in the next exciting episode of "BB Meets the Roo-Matolojest", on air 19 July. Wham. Pow. Biff.

SleepingUgly wrote:It's the tonsillectomy/pharyngoplasty that has been rough.

Sound like quite a major upheaval for such a busy place in your body. All the best.

blizzardboy wrote:Naturally when one finds oneself diagnosed with condition X one looks back through one's annals...

That's disgusting.

Muffy