Long Term Problems from Sleep Apnea?
Monday, April 12th, 2010 at
10:22 am
I had sleep apnea for 10 year before being diagnosed and starting treatment. I am now experiencing focus and concentration problems, and they are starting to effect my job. I have been using a C-PAP since diagnosis 10 years ago. Anyone else have this problem? Any ideas what to do about it?
PS-My doctor put me on stratera, and I don’t have ADD or ADHD. Anyone else tried this?
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Filed under: Sleep Apnea Diagnosis
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I don’t think it is related to the sleep apnea, specially since you have had your CPAP for 10 years. It is probably related to anxiety or depression.
Maybe you should be retested for the apnea. You may require an adjustment on your machine. I was retested a couple of years ago for the same reasons and found that I required a higher level of air pressure from the machine.
There are a lot of things that could cause your lack of focus. I hope your doc tested your thyroid function, too. But I agree that it’s unlikely to be the CPAP, much more likely sleep apnea would do that. Have you had your machine calibrated and have you had a sleep study done recently? Your machine should be calibrated once a year and you should have a new sleep study every five years.
I have sleep apnea too, I just learned to deal with it. Concentration is a common cause of sleep apnea due to lack of deep sleep. Like you I suffer from concentration problems.