Uppp surgery
Question:
Lori&Mike (mpow…@the-beach.net) wrote:
: the airway. Standford doctors have some interesting reading : http://www.sleepsurgery.com/aboutus.html on these areas. Notice that they : mention having surgery on only one area of blockage is probably not going to : work since most people have multiple blockage sites. Stanford uses the Funny you would mention that. I discovered that is my case… by DIY experimenting with intubation! I couldn’t deep-throat the thin hose past the laryinx (yet) but that component is part of my own problem. The good news is I know that UPPP will not work on me, just from fucking around as a "medical hacker". It’s an odd thing I would get the apnoea just before falling asleep, which allows DIY diagnosis and/or treatment. But for surgery, you gotta go into "da shop". — FOOD FOR THOUGHT: 100 calories are used up in the course of a mile run. The USDA guidelines for dietary fibre is equal to one ounce of sawdust. The liver makes the vast majority of the cholesterol in your bloodstream. http://www.ripco.com/~nospam/ CUIDADO: Las Puertas Estan Listas Para Cerrar.
Response:
Michael Hartwig wrote in message … >Charlie Perrin <clper…@prodigy.net> writes: >[snip] >> As to sleep apnea; they could figure out a lot more if people could >> sleep in a running MRI, but I suspect they’d wake up because of the >> incredible racket. 
>Nah, if your Apnea’s bad enough, you can sleep through anything. :-)
Would t’were so — I’m on CPAP, and I can’t sleep thru the night. I wake up after 2-3 hours, and often can’t get back to sleep again without pills. And yes, I’ve had a recent titration and the pressure is good…
Response:
Charlie Perrin (clper…@prodigy.net) wrote:
: As to sleep apnea; they could figure out a lot more if people could : sleep in a running MRI, but I suspect they’d wake up because of the : incredible racket. Depends on the magnet you are loaded into. The "torpedo tube" type is louder than the open type. They provide earplugs in both cases and when I had my bad knee MRI’d, I used the earplugs and was able to relax to the point of triggering my own apnoea. The noise was like that "industrial music" so 40 minutes wasn’t bad on me. MRI depends on the item being really still to get a good image, so you’d need a REALLY strong magnet to get a good .pic of a person’s exact apnoea event, and you’d need to use an anesthetic, just enough to trigger the apnoea. The magnet would have a HUGE power drain becuse it would have to pulse real fast and would need lots of cooling with having to be superconducting. I guess if you are unlucky enough to have apnoea while awake and you deep-throat a hose, you could get an MRI of the component that is causing the trouble. You would deep-throat the hose to stop the apnoea then get loaded into the MRI magnet. (of course, you get the gag reflex) Then they get the image as you relax or sleep as the offending component rests on the hose you deep-throated. For this method to work, with the vast majority of people they would have to give the patient a drug that cuts off the gag reflex, likely codeine, before having the patient deep-throat the length of hose. — FOOD FOR THOUGHT: 100 calories are used up in the course of a mile run. The USDA guidelines for dietary fibre is equal to one ounce of sawdust. The liver makes the vast majority of the cholesterol in your bloodstream. http://www.ripco.com/~nospam/ CUIDADO: Las Puertas Estan Listas Para Cerrar.
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loonlover (loonlo…@accesswave.ca) wrote:
: Hi Kevin I do hope the surgery is successful and you get the sleep you need. : I had UPPP in the early 1990s and it was effective for a few years. I slept 16 : hours straight after the surgery!! It was most painful post op and took about 6 : weeks to get feeling well. By 1998 the good results were gone and I was back to : snoring and gasping at night. Having another sleep study in a couple of years : might be a good idea and also to be alert to the fact that the good results may : diminish is really important. When I went to my doctor with symptoms of fatigue : etc, he said "It cant be from apnea because you have already had the surgery : for that" Hope you dont ever get a bone head doc like that!! Good luck and : keep us posted of your health!! It sounds like the UPPP surgery doesn’t really work long term. It sounds like it only delays the eventual trache job, which would help explain why Europe with single-payer healthcare would abandon UPPP. Since I can’t swim anyways, a trache job wouldn’t be too big a problem apart from hose maintenance. As far as appearance, the capped hose during the day would be seen as "just another piercing"! The trache job is a comparatively easy surgery job too, and is occasionally done with cases of undiagnosed apnoea cases when in "da shop" for another surgery job, such as an endoscopic knee ACL branding repair. — FOOD FOR THOUGHT: 100 calories are used up in the course of a mile run. The USDA guidelines for dietary fibre is equal to one ounce of sawdust. The liver makes the vast majority of the cholesterol in your bloodstream. http://www.ripco.com/~nospam/ CUIDADO: Las Puertas Estan Listas Para Cerrar.
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"Patrick Richards" <patrickricha…@home.com> wrote: >I have been on this group for almost 3 years and I use to believe that >surgeries don’t work but some seem too.
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