Replace thinking chemicals lost from apnea?

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"mental illness" is not an accusation or an insult. It just is what it is. I have it as do many great people here and elsewhere.

sickwithapnea17 wrote:if you are going to accuse me of mental disease I am going to have you banned from my thread you vile people, so DISGUSTING you are

Really?
And how are you going to accomplish the banning?

Drowsy Dancer asked you some very pertinent questions but as usual you did not bother to answer.

Pugsy wrote:
Really?
And how are you going to accomplish the banning?

They are going to do a nasal rinse with peroxide again?

sickwithapnea17 wrote:have you found a solution to regain mental functioning?
I tried cpap and bipap for months and I'm still back to normal. the card says I only sleep 1 hour a night on the machine most nights and I take the mask off in my sleep. what works is taking prednisone
I've been crippled by this disease!
if you are going to accuse me of mental disease I am going to have you banned from my thread you vile people, so DISGUSTING you are

Say what now? Are you referring to me? Your first post said you had "severe cognitive impairment." Cognitive functioning=mental functioning. I don't even know what a "mental disease" might be. I wasn't insulting you, I was using your original question.

If you are only having xPAP treatment one hour per night, your treatment clearly is suboptimal. You're not "still back to normal" (?) if you're taking your mask off in your sleep. Concentrating on keeping that mask on all night is pretty basic. After a honeymoon perioid, it took me months of sound CPAP treatment before I started feeling like myself again. I too was crippled by sleep deprivation. It takes a long time to bounce back, but in my case my "solution to regain mental functioning" was sleeping all night, every night, with my CPAP, for an extended period of time.

Why escalate to drugs first?

A Magic Pill is the easy way out, but that pill doesn't exist. What does, is making XPAP treatment work, but that won't happen until you decide to make it work. For me Fresh Air under pressure was a smart solution, I was willing to do it correctly because if I didn't I would have died. No pill can make it work, you have to make up you mind you want treatment to make you better, then do it correctly, then things will get better. Step One is making up you mind to do it. Jim

I've tried it for over 2 years, but I don't know why I started taking the mask off about 11months ago in my sleep. I switched to bipap so maybe the pressure programming on the phillips machine doesn't help me

unfortunately these DTI MRIs seem to say that you do get brain damage from sleep apnea- how that happens is an extremely important question for all of us
can it be prevented by taking d-mannose?

I am having to take medications because everything else has failed and I haven't been able to get the UPPP surgery and tonsilectomy/septum surgery yet since I can't afford it
I am basically untreated sleep apnea since I can only sleep one hour on the machine
for some reason prednisone works since it seems to open up my narrowed airways from asthma

sickwithapnea17 wrote:unfortunately these DTI MRIs seem to say that you do get brain damage from sleep apnea- how that happens is an extremely important question for all of us
can it be prevented by taking d-mannose?

I am having to take medications because everything else has failed and I haven't been able to get the UPPP surgery and tonsilectomy/septum surgery yet since I can't afford it
I am basically untreated sleep apnea since I can only sleep one hour on the machine
for some reason prednisone works since it seems to open up my narrowed airways from asthma

Untreated Sleep apnea can cause brain damage, you can die from it, and that will cause your brain to have a bad day, before I'd opt so for the knife, I'd make XPAP work, if you can only use it one hours a day, do that eight times in a row, problem solved. Jim

around the time started to be unable to sleep on bipap I started to wheeze, so maybe I take the mask off from low O2?

anyway if you can somehow protect your neurons that is good