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Sleep apnea and daytime shortness of breath
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I've posted this in the sleep forum but wanted to expand my search. Before being treated for sleep apnea, has anyone experienced irritation in the lungs or airway that caused a mild shortness of breath throughout the day? Did it improve with CPAP? Thank you
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I’ve had a Resmed Airsense 11 cpap for about 5 years. Had to wait 1 year to get it because all Philips cpap owners were switching to Resmed because of Philips death trap. I now own it outright after using it for a few years.
Now I have grown to hate it. Medicare paid for it not me. All supplies come automatically according to a schedule free of charges. I’m waking up with disabling headaches.
I have to go to my pulmonologist by the end of the week and I have to bring it with me. It’s Bluetooth so I have no idea why he wants me to bring it in unless I also has a card. He will know that i haven’t used it in months. Why?
I’ve developed a right vocal cord paralysis. It is paralyzed shut. Won’t budge.
Missing a vocal cord means you’re only getting 50% of oxygen and I lost my ability to talk without coming up for air mid sentence. Sometimes I’m down to a whisper and I’m pretty much getting ignored at the dinner table.
2 esophagus surgeries may have helped I don’t know. Because the pain of my vocal cord being paralyzed. I only have 50% of breathing and swallowing.
I’m due for a choice of surgery coming up. But having a shrinking esophagus didn’t help.
So I have stopped using it because I end up with too much air trying to work through 1 vocal cord so I started out using it only for a few hours a night.
My cpap shows 0.1 sleep study. Almost like I’ve been cured. I have COPD so I should probably use it with less force. It starts out at 4 and 30 minutes later I’m at 10 and 10 chocked me and wakes me up and remove it from my face. It has a medium nose pillow.
I am no longer getting complaints that I snore since I have stop using n
It. Am I cured? I don’t sleep better when on or off it’s the same. But I’m starting to think that when I see my pulmonologist at the end of the week I should tell him because I’m so tired on the next day and now need a cane to support me.
So for me I have not seen a change in symptoms. So if he doesn’t change my numbers I will put it in the closet as a heavy paperweight.
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@noendinsight. i have sleep apnea. i've had it for the last five years. it started like you. just seemed like i couldn't get deep breaths. was not able to walk long without breathing properly. i've had a CPAP for about 4 years and 8 months. it definitely has helped with the breathing. the sleep for me has been the deep sleep you'd normally have if you didn't have the apnea. and the dreams are more normal. so for me, i'd say it has improved a lot. so definitely go and get treated. it's really worth it. danny 💙💙.