Can STRESS cause sleep apnea?

hans007 wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 04, 2018 2:54 am

Now here's what I think what causes my sleep apneas :

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Think what you want but that won't make it so. You should have listened to your doctor.

Sad, that denial is so great as to be deadly.

Big S wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 24, 2010 10:17 pm

My doc told me I had hand to mouth disease. Finally! After all these years, I have been diagnosed.

Hand to mouth disease? Lol I have that problem too!

roster wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 23, 2010 10:28 pm

Your family doctor is using an old, obsolete profile. It is not the weight and it is not the age.

It is a narrow airway. Some signs of a narrow airway are crowded or crooked teeth, no wisdom teeth, scalloped tongue, recessed chin, and short jaw bones.

That's quite interesting. I've had people who should know better (i.e. clinicians) claim that my sleep apnoea is due to being overweight, in spite of me telling them it was a problem even when I was skinny, and that it didn't miraculously cure itself when I got my weight down to what it's supposed to be: indeed it didn't really change much at all except they decided I probably needed less pressure. I'm not sure if there was any scientific reasoning for this beyond my weight, though.

But what they never commented about was the IMHO really rather obvious small chin and lower jaw, the small mouth that's not quite big enough to accommodate all my teeth without some crowding (family problem, my sister had to have some teeth out on the same basis) and so on. But no, let's stick with blaming the patient, it's because you're fat, greedy and lazy, even after subjecting myself to an intense enough exercise programme (and I hate exercise: not because "lol I wanna watch telly with a huge tub of ice cream!" but because it actually makes me incredibly depressed, probably something to do with blood sugars) that I managed to shift my diabetes. But did it shift my sleep apnoea? No. Grr etc.

Decades after recognition, OSA is still widely misunderstood,
with little interest in discovering/learning more.
Lazy baztardz!