Sleep Apnea Causes PTSD in Combat Veterans

I have been trying to tell them this for years.They still don't understand how a constant overproduction of cortisol and sleep deprivation causes anxiety and other psychiatric disorders.

Combat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) almost universally suffer sleep problems -- with more cases of sleep apnea than might otherwise be expected -- U.S. Army researchers found.

Full article: http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCove ... rid=249096

Hi Rooster

Thanks for posting that. It took me a moment before I realised you were not talking about Vietnam.

It is good, very good, that veterans are getting the treatment they need.

But it is also sad that the whole civilian medical effort in Vietnam, especially those dealing with civilian war casualties, are probably also in need of being checked for PTSD and OSA.

But they are scattered all over the world, and have no central point of contact.

However, I hope the civilian NGO's in Iraq and Afghanistan are more aware of these potential problems.

Thanks again, I will get that article published in my local veterans magazine, and hope that might be of some help.

cheers

Mars

mars wrote: Thanks again, I will get that article published in my local veterans magazine, and hope that might be of some help.

cheers

Mars

Thank you in more ways than one.

The Military wants nothing more than all of us veterans to go away, especially those who stuck it out and retired. There will never be any help for us that served in VN, unless ordered by the courts and now that possibility is almost gone. Am I bitter, you bet, they have screwed over us for so long and this administration is about the worst ever for despising the Military.