My current BMI is around 36-37 I also believe I have obstructive sleep apnea (haven’t been diagnosed but looking at the symptoms online i’m right on the money.) I have tried many diets, regulated my calorie intake exercised 6 days a week, taken many appetite supressants and I can not seem to lose weight. I am interested in gastric bypass surgery however I do not have health insurance and most of the insurance plans i’ve looked into say they do not cover pre existing medical conditions. what steps can I take to make this surgery possible? Are there any health plans that might cover this? Please help!

I wake up and my heart is beating soooo fast, i start sweating and i feel like i’m going to faint. I feel that if the situation got any worse i would literally die, is this sleep apnea or a panic attack? I only awake from sleep with these symptoms, i never have them when i’m awake through out the day.

I am stop lossed and undergoing a medical board for back pain. During the process i was also diagnosed with sleep apnea. The army pulmonolgist told me today that its recommended that i use a CPAP machine to sleep at night. He told me that it would make my MEB take longer if i accept the treatment by using the CPAP. And in turn could stay in becuase the cpap fixed my problem.What do i DO???Deny treatment so that my problem does not get better and get out. Or take the treatment and risk having to stay in….why do i have to choose between my health or getting out???

My son is 15 and super intent on going military. We have been looking at academies and senior military colleges. My big concern is this: he was diagnosed with sleep apnea at a very young age. I have seen nowhere that this in itself is disqualifying. Is it? In addition, he is very interested in getting mandibular advancement surgery to help cure the apnea so he won’t have to deal with it in the military. My concern is that the surgery itself could be disqualifying. Any answers out there? If he can’t go military, I don’t know what he’ll do with himself! It’s all he wants!
Thanks, Justin. My understanding is that there is a big difference between diagnoses before you enter the service, and those diagnoses that occur once you’re in service. Also, our experience is that the local recruiters tell you what they think you want to hear. Any more info out there?
Thank you, “Boats”. This is the clearest answer we’ve received, though a little discouraging. If I may ask: does that apply to all branches? Also, what is your background in this area? Thanks again!

does sleep apnea cause light-headedness, dizzyness, and feeling unbalanced. i also have high blood pressure and stress out easily. in the past two nights i’ve been waking up shaking. the first night, 5 hrs after i went to sleep, it happend. last night two hrs. after i went to sleep, dad and sister woke me up when they got home, it happend. i also don’t sleep that well because in my dream i feel like i suffocate and then wake up. the past week i was stressed out because i was going away from my parents with my cousin to my aunt’s in Canada for a chek-up over there and today, day i was leaving, i didn’t leave because i got pain in the middle top of my chest, but it went away, turned out to be air and gas in my chest. what is the main thing you feel when you have brain cancer/ tumor depending anywhere it would be located? Seizures right. i don’t have them.i’m really feeling light headedness but it’s also is hot. oh and i also felt chest tightness and presure which didn’t let me breath deep. i also felt head pressure and dizzy, but when i forgot about it,or rested on the bed, it went away. is this all caused because of sleep apnea. i haven’t gone to the docter or sleep speacialist,but going on tuesday to doctor so might get a sleep study done to so don’t say go to doctor.

Okay, so last year I miscarried at 6 weeks – but I didn’t even find out I was pregnant for sure until I was in the middle of misscarrying (took tests religiously everday for weeks, never registered positive until 1 day into the miscarriage) – if you read back on my questions about a year ago, I had about 10 x-rays to my stomach around implantation, and 3 weeks later began to bleed heavily. I blamed the x-rays all this past year, up until the other day when I got to thinking about SLEEP APNEA and pregnancy…..there is a chance I am pregnant right now, but this had NEVER crossed my mind until recently. It would make sense right?? A woman quits breathing 59 times an hour while she’s sleeping – that’s a part of EVERY minute, every hour….so it’s cutting off oxygen to the placenta…..anyone ever stopped and thought about this before??….Now I’m almost 100 percent sure it caused my miscarriage last year, and am terrified this time around. If I am pregnant I would be 4 1/2 – 5 weeks and I don’t go back for my cpap (breathing maching) fitting until this friday, and then it will take another 10 days after that before I can get my machine from the Medical Supply store…that’s IF sleep apnea caused the miscarriage a year ago….what do you think?

How dangerous is mild obstructive sleep apnea?

I have a CPAP device since I have sleep apnea. I have been having trouble with my throat. Can a CPAP machine damage your throat?
It’s not a sore or dry throat. My throat seems to be having numbness and almost like a choking feeling around my Adam’s apple.

I am having a sleep study to diagnose RLS and Obstructive Sleep Apnea. What can I expect to happen during the sleep study? What can I take with me? How can they tell if I have these sleep disorders?