Turns out I have Obstructive Sleep Apnea. I knew there was a possiblility because I scored really high on the symptoms test. And, I'm really tired a lot of the time. But, when I had the sleep study and they didn't have to come in with the C-Pap machine, I took that as a good sign. But, today, the EN&T Dr. told me I have mild-moderate apnea. I had 10 episodes/hour of not breathing for 20 seconds. And, I had one session of v-e-r-y s-l-o-w breathing that lasted 92 seconds. And, I have a fairly deviated septum which has my right side of my sinuses a bit messed up. I have cool CT scan pictures to show it. This means that while I don't have chronic sinus infections, because of the messed up anatomy, it increases the opportunities for repeated accute sinus infections. Go! Dr. Wahab, because that's what she said. Actually, she said, "I want you to see a specialist to follow up with some tests to see if you have chronic infection that just NEVER clears up or not". IF I want to have surgery to correct it, it will help my breathing and possibly help the apnea, but it's not pressing. It would be outpatient surgery and supposedly not all that painful (which anyone that knows me, knows that's huge, to me). The other option is to have surgery to REDUCE THE SIZE OF MY TONGUE and remove my uvula and take out some soft tissue in my throat. Uh, no thanks! Even the dr. doesn't want to do that.
But, for now, I'll have to start with the C-Pap.
So, the next step is go BACK for another sleep study and get to wear a mask of some sort and have them figure out how high the pressure needs to be to reach optimal results. Yippee. I can hardly wait. But, this time, I WON'T have to try to sleep on my back, which I never do anyway, and was a great waste of time and sleep. After the 2nd sleep study, I'll get a C-Pap machine. Then, after 3 months, we'll re-evaluate.
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I'm really disappointed that you didn't have a poll on what people thought you should do with your tongue hehe! REDUCE your tongue?? R you kidding me?
I can't even imagine how painful it would be to reduce the size of your tongue.
Tongue reduction? How exactly do they do that? And wouldn't that affect your speech? Youch!!!
I hope I never have to do one of those tests because I would lay awake all night. kathy's comment is funny and very true.
Rick don't you mean thpeetch? OUCH!
Oh - we totally need to talk. I think Kade's got sleep issues too. I've been trying to convince him to do a sleep study. And, yes. Wouldn't recommend the tongue reduction.
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