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Re: Phobic

Posted by sleepy-in-seattle on March 01, 2006 at 14:36:24:

In Reply to: Re: Phobic posted by Hysterical on February 28, 2006 at 18:28:39:

Hysterical:

Your belief that you don't have sleep apnea doesn't appear to be grounded in reality.

Sleep tests do not induce apnea from nowhere. There may be aspects which can affect the degree or number of apneas. For instance, everyone (every human being) has more apneas on their back. But it's a matter of degree. If you test as having severe OSA on your back, you aren't going to have light OSA on your side. (Plus, we all change position many dozens of times a night while sleeping - otherwise we'd all have bedsores every morning.)

A sleep study such as this is not measuring a subjective sleep quality - it is recording objectively what happens while you sleep. There's absolutely no reason that you would spontaneously develop a breathing obstruction based on your sleeping environment. If so, OSA would rocket for business travelers and vacationers, as well as anyone going camping.

Your cancer likely is a contributor to your fatigue issues. It looks very likely that OSA is also.

You appear to have done a cursory review of OSA symptoms and decided that since they either don't apply or can be explained in some other way, that you are right and your pulmonary doc is wrong.

For your sake, I truly hope you are right. Untreated OSA can be just as debilitating as many cancers, but often with no obvious symptoms.

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