Re: Aggressive treatment Options for GERD + sleep apnea + hypertension

Posted By Phil on July 09, 1998 at 17:20:15:

In Reply to: Re: Aggressive treatment Options for GERD + sleep apnea + hypertension posted by kay on July 07, 1998 at 19:56:54:







Kay,
   You wrote:
>>Have you found anything to help the grogginess this lack of sleep causes?
I'd see the "sleep doctor" and have them do a sleep study - if you have
sleep apnea - CPAP is one of the few things that will help.
>>I went virtually for two weeks without more than minutes of sleep at a time,
>>and I was sleeping propped up in bed all night.
Sounds like you are flirtin' with disaster here, I had a friend who fell
asleep driving - get checked ASAP!
>>I'm tired of feeling like I might fall out in a dead sleep while walking across the den floor!! Do/did you have
>>a bad cough also?
I had a chronic dry tickle in my throat that I had forgotten about until
you asked, it's gone, sounds like acid reflux.
>>If so, what have you done for it? The cough is my biggest worry about
>>developing or maybe even now having cancer; have you heard anything about
>>the correlation of cough to cancer?
No, nothing about cancer, could definitely be acid reflux, though, I think.
Get checked before you fall asleep doing something critical!
      Phil