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Re: Tongue Suspension

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Posted by Patrick Richards on September 19, 2000 at 17:31:02:

In Reply to: Re: Tongue Suspension posted by Alamo Joe on September 10, 2000 at 15:35:44:

I tell you reading this posts sure puts me on edge. I see Dr. Riley tomorrow at Stanford for an evaluation.

I have been using cpap/bipap for 20 months with no relief. I get too many changes in stages of sleep and the cpap knocks out my deep sleep.

Having tried silent night which is support to help if a dental device is to help I am trying another device custom made and on my 2nd advancement on it without any luck.

Since my apnea is not positional and dental devices are not helping, it looks like most if not all of the surgeries that Riley and Powell do might not work on me.

I really hate to get a trache, and since my apnea is not that bad, it would be hard to get one.

Been a crappy 2 years trying remedies. Tried sleeping pills, antidepressants, energy crap but without that deep sleep it feels like I am in limbo.

I probably will have the throat lasered, if nothing else, that would help even if short term so I know for sure it is the machine.

My first sleep study showed deep sleep with and without cpap 1 full hour of 3 hours of sleep and now it disappeared. Dr. Black of Stanford says it is impossible for it to happen by age that fast and thinks it is the machine but ambien had worked on some cases but not mine.

I know that you have been on this sandman site for some time. I hang out at alt.support.sleep-disorder newsgroup.

I know with the deep sleep being knocked out it is bad for my health and have to do something.

I will post what Dr. Riley says after I see him tomorrow. I hope he is honest with me.


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