Sleep Apnea

Hi, my name is TheDon54. I'm here because I’m trying to get off physical addiction to prescription narcotic pain killers due to diagnosed Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, several problems that run the length of my spine resulting in (3) disc surgeries including (1) rupture, an implanted neural stimulator to treat Ankylosing Spondylitis, (3) or (4) attempts to implant neural stimulators to relieve chronic pain in my SI joint/lower back, Failed Back Surgery Syndrome, a leg muscle disease that will eventually render my legs useless, and severe Sleep Apnea for which I’m waiting on having a device implanted in my chest somewhere.

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All I can do is cry this morning. No one , not even my grown son who lives local will help me. I feel useless and miserable today. Most days I just push forward. Yesterday my only child still home (8 and on the ASD spectrum) had 2 appointments at our local children’s hospital (massive in size) and after doing valet at the wrong entrance I had to ask the internal transportation to push me to my appointment in a wheelchair. People just assume that im fat and lazy and the guy spoke to a coworker in a foreign language that know a few words of and they were sharing exasperation concerning him having to push me. I know my baby needs me but today I feel like I’m just letting him down .

Hi, my name is mackvinyl. I'm here because I was asked to try to find more resources and stuff to make you feel better.But I don't really know how this is going to help

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The guys has the parts in his shop and he is coming out to try and fix the back of my new wheelchair seat. On the other hand, I don’t have sleep apnea but I do have restless leg syndrome and possibly Narcolepsy. As a result, I will just keep doing what I am doing until my next appointment. Thank you for the prayers. Oh and I am really glad I have a quite weekend coming up because I am going to need it.

I don’t know what you are going through but I truly do wish you all a life full of joy, peace, and happiness at all times. May life get better and better for you each day in every way! I hope and pray only positivity comes your way, nothing negative that you don’t want. You deserve to be happy! May you all be well.

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The symptoms I experienced along my 50 year PTSD journey (so far):

- Childhood bed wetting

- Heart palpitations and arrhythmia

- Constant anxiety and fear

- Inability to connect

- Visual flashbacks (3 distinct images)

- Panic attacks

- Dizzyness and fainting spells

- Vision migraines

- Light sensitivity

- Sound sensitivity

- Emotional dis-regulation

- Dissociation

- Sleep paralysis

- Sleep walking

- Nightmares and violent dreams

- Night terrors and animated sleep

- Obstructive sleep apnea (10 years)

- Vagal freezes/shutdowns while driving

- Nighttime body spasms

- 10 to 30 daily neurogenic tremors - Been shaking for 18 months now...

- Leg Length Discrepancy and right hip pain caused by Psoas constriction

- Chronic upper back and neck pain due to Leg Length Discrepancy

- Temporary loss of function in right arm

- Every IBS symptom in the book

- A sudden loss of 25KG (55lb) over 3 months

- Sudden hair loss

- A loss of confidence in my ability to perform simple tasks

When you write it all down it looks pretty obvious right?

But when it's all you have ever known then you adapt and get on with life... Until your body decides it has had enough of compensating.

Just posting this in the hope it helps someone else identify this insidious condition.#PTSD

For decades I've had sleep issues. Recently in the past 10 years I've found I'm Type 2 Diabetic. My bad night sleep could translate into an afternoon nap that I've done for quite some time now. I'm finding it's interrupting my ability find some good work. I've been on bicycle tours where I've had to sleep. I've literally had to leave a trail to find some grass to sleep. Some guy walking the trail thought I had died. That's how bad it is. Sleep studies have shown only that I have sleep apnea. The cpap machine doesn't work, so I'm lost on what to do.

Does anybody have any suggestions? I'm taping my mouth shut for nose breathing during sleep, but that doesn't seem to really fix anything.