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Dec. 21st, 2023 10:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatSo, saw the doctor again (he was surprised I popped up again so quickly), and...I'm not sure what to make of it? I have moderate sleep apnea obstruction on my side (if I sleep on my side at night) and severe on my back (if I sleep on my back). Which explains why I avoid sleeping on my back, and can't stand lying on my back - I feel like I'm drowning. i.e. I can't breath.
The doctor told me that side effects of this condition are depression, fatigue, nightmares and if untreated, alzheimers. My father probably had it - he snored worse than I do.
So, apparently the way to treat it - is to wear a sleep mask that provides oxygen at night or ensures you get it. Either over the nose or the mouth. And you can see a sleep neurologist to get it fitted, and help you get adjusted to it. Start gradually and build up to it. Also use nasal sprays, and neti pot. He told me to go off of the antihistimines, or only use it once a day. That it can also have a side affect of keeping me awake, and can cause depression.
Also, I should wear scarves and a hood to provide air from blowing in my nose.
Ugga Bugga.
After he tells me all of this. I go to the medical staff to try and get it coordinated and scheduled. And...well, I have to wait twenty minutes for the sole person behind the counter to help a guy hunting a physical therapist (who she fails to schedule, and ends up just giving a phone number to). This is not boding at all well.
She tells me that no, she can't schedule the allergist - he's not in the facility. And no, my current neurologist doesn't handle Sleep Apnea, I'll have to find a different one. And no they don't know who. And then she prints out the prescription and hands it to me. It's a sleep mask or CPAP Mask Prescription - but there's no address, phone number or anyone to contact. When I ask - they try to give me the sleep lab numbers - which are useless - that's who did the study.
So, she tells me to wait - and asks a colleague, who goes to ask the doctor, while I wait some more. After about twenty minutes, the colleague returns to inform me that a medical secretary will call me to explain how to set it all up tomorrow.
I leave confused and annoyed, and decide not to go to my UUA Church's evening vespers' Winter solstice service. I'm irritable. Instead I buy food at Union (get sashimi for dinner and some chicken salad for lunch tomorrow), then walk to the subway (about fifteen-twenty blocks) and when I get back to my neighborhood - stop off at the pharmacy, where I pick up the nasal spray and a box of chocolates that's sitting there in a box in front of the pharmacy window, declaring it's 50% off.
Have to come back tomorrow to get the Metroformin, which I called in. They had to authorize. They did. But they failed to put it through. And promised me that I could pick it up tomorrow.
It's getting late. I've become addicted to playing Jeopardy on my phone. I am good at trivia games. Because I appear to know a lot of random information off the top of my head. I've had people online call me an encyclopedia. I don't know - encyclopedia's are better indexed? Or so one would hope? The information in my head is poorly indexed. And if it doesn't interest me or have some logical or rhyme to it? I will forget it. Encyclopedias are far more reliable than my brain.
The doctor told me that side effects of this condition are depression, fatigue, nightmares and if untreated, alzheimers. My father probably had it - he snored worse than I do.
So, apparently the way to treat it - is to wear a sleep mask that provides oxygen at night or ensures you get it. Either over the nose or the mouth. And you can see a sleep neurologist to get it fitted, and help you get adjusted to it. Start gradually and build up to it. Also use nasal sprays, and neti pot. He told me to go off of the antihistimines, or only use it once a day. That it can also have a side affect of keeping me awake, and can cause depression.
Also, I should wear scarves and a hood to provide air from blowing in my nose.
Ugga Bugga.
After he tells me all of this. I go to the medical staff to try and get it coordinated and scheduled. And...well, I have to wait twenty minutes for the sole person behind the counter to help a guy hunting a physical therapist (who she fails to schedule, and ends up just giving a phone number to). This is not boding at all well.
She tells me that no, she can't schedule the allergist - he's not in the facility. And no, my current neurologist doesn't handle Sleep Apnea, I'll have to find a different one. And no they don't know who. And then she prints out the prescription and hands it to me. It's a sleep mask or CPAP Mask Prescription - but there's no address, phone number or anyone to contact. When I ask - they try to give me the sleep lab numbers - which are useless - that's who did the study.
So, she tells me to wait - and asks a colleague, who goes to ask the doctor, while I wait some more. After about twenty minutes, the colleague returns to inform me that a medical secretary will call me to explain how to set it all up tomorrow.
I leave confused and annoyed, and decide not to go to my UUA Church's evening vespers' Winter solstice service. I'm irritable. Instead I buy food at Union (get sashimi for dinner and some chicken salad for lunch tomorrow), then walk to the subway (about fifteen-twenty blocks) and when I get back to my neighborhood - stop off at the pharmacy, where I pick up the nasal spray and a box of chocolates that's sitting there in a box in front of the pharmacy window, declaring it's 50% off.
Have to come back tomorrow to get the Metroformin, which I called in. They had to authorize. They did. But they failed to put it through. And promised me that I could pick it up tomorrow.
It's getting late. I've become addicted to playing Jeopardy on my phone. I am good at trivia games. Because I appear to know a lot of random information off the top of my head. I've had people online call me an encyclopedia. I don't know - encyclopedia's are better indexed? Or so one would hope? The information in my head is poorly indexed. And if it doesn't interest me or have some logical or rhyme to it? I will forget it. Encyclopedias are far more reliable than my brain.