Posted by Hugh on March 6, 2013, at 12:38:25
In reply to CPAP affects my mood like crazy, posted by LostBoyinNC43 on March 6, 2013, at 11:18:49
A friend of mine had been depressed for years. His wife noticed that he would stop breathing at times during the night, so she made him go to a sleep lab, where they hooked him up to the monitors and let him go to sleep. They woke him up after four hours, told him he had severe sleep apnea, and had him use a CPAP for the rest of the night. My friend woke up in the morning, feeling better than he'd felt in years, and thought, "I'm back!" And he really has been a new person since he started using a CPAP. His brother also had sleep apnea, but refused to have it treated, and died in his sleep of a heart attack, very likely caused by his sleep apnea.
A lot of people with sleep apnea hate the CPAP and refuse to wear it. Some of them can be helped by the Pillar Procedure. A dentist implants some stents in the soft palate, which stiffen the soft palate and reduce snoring.
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