I was recently diagnosed with sleep apnea. I don’t fit the typical description of someone who has it: I’m a healthy weight, and a young female.
It’s a mild case, but enough that it completely messes with my sleep and makes me exhausted.
When I was 6, my tonsils were removed. My mom made the comment that the doctor told her that they were abnormally large.
Is it possible that something in my anatomy from the tonsils that long ago could be causing the apnea (since they were apparently so large)?

I’ve searched EVERYWHERE online for the answer, but all I find is stuff about sleep apnea and blah blah blah -.- I had corrective upper jaw surgery two weeks ago and my swelling has gone down completely. Sleeping on your back for two weeks can get pretty uncomfortable and I’m not even sure if I have to.. It’s too late to call my doctor and it’s 7:30 pm and I want to know in time to sleep, because it’s driving me crazy.. CAN I sleep on my side?

I had surgery on my right shoulder 5 weeks ago today 9/23/10 it was for bone spurs the dr took off part of my collar bone and did a decompression I can’t seem to get a nights sleep where I wake rested. I have no pain at least that I feel. Could my brain be aware of the pain but I’m not?
I’m really starting to feel sleep deprived some days worse than others. I also have sleep apnea and wear a cpap. I took a ambien last night and seem to help. but still didn’t wake all that rested . I know naps will disrupted sleep. so I avoid them besides I try to nap but I can’t fall asleep

Can you develop sporadic fatal insomnia from surgery?

the child (4.5 yrs) suffered from sleep apnea as a result of the enlarged adenoid and his social development (esp. peer relationships) seemed to be delayed. his adenoid and tonsils were removed in a surgery so the sleep apnea seems to have been corrected. when can we expect that he catch up in his social development?

I have been using the cpap for about 6 months and still don’t feel refreshed after a good 7-8 hours of sleep.

FOr people who were over weight or obese, how much, if any, weight were you able to lose after starting CPAP treatment for Sleep Apnea?

sleep apnea. For the last few years I have been sleep
walking. I do alot of different things in my sleep & appear to others as if Im awake, but I never have any recollection of it, others tell me.

Im tired all day I cant go to bed early because I will wake up every 2 hours. But even if I get 7 hours of sleep Im still tired all day. Then mid-day around 1 or 2, It is terribly hard for me to stay awake. In my last job I would start nodding out so I would just lay my head down & take a nap comfortably. With my new job, I cant do that. But that doesnt stop me from nodding out!

Ive been having to drive in the middle of the day for my job and even still, I nod out. Its getting worse, just on Thursday I had a 45 minutes drive and came way too close to having 6 or 7 different accidents. Its very scary, Ive been waking up just at the right time. And it doesnt matter what I do, I cant stay awake.

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I have a patient with mild obstructive sleep apnea, who had Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery recently after a Myocadial Infarction, and now he is recovering well 5 days post-op but his sleep apnea has worsened and he can’t get any sleep ever since the surgery.
do you have any suggestion or any management options to offer?
thanks a lot !

My mother was diagnosed as bipolar about 5 years ago, after I had been out of her home several years. Previous diagnoses include depression, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, hypothyroidism, chronic insomnia, sleep apnea & hypoglycemia. She has visited half a dozen doctors to get these diagnoses. She continually cycles through taking medicine from 1 doctor as prescribed, to taking medicine from several docs who do not know she is doctor shopping, to all-herbal(and I mean like, 20 – 30 different supplements a day), to no medicine.
With each new diagnosis/treatment, she seems to believe that she has turned a corner. If I try to talk to her about behaviors that seem harmful, she becomes too tearful and sleepy to talk. Recently, she has done some very hurtful things. I’m beyond trying to confront her about it.
Does anyone have a similar situation that turned out well? I keep hoping for the best, but her behavior gets more erratic and hurtful as time goes by.