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1580703 tn?1651904887

low oxygen, terrible sleep apnea, please help!

I'm still waking up with headaches from low oxygen from sleep breathing problems.  
I think klonopin and trazodone help- my body twitches before I fall asleep and on the asv the inhalation pressure shoots up to 20cm several times a night....
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Hello and hope you are doing well.

Allergy shots will not help sleep apnea. However, if your attacks of wheezing are triggered by allergens, then immunotherapy may help to control these triggering factors and prevent wheezing.

Hope this helped and do keep us posted.
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1580703 tn?1651904887
can allergy shots help sleep apnea?  I wheeze when I exhale and have a level 4 dust mite allergy
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1580703 tn?1651904887
which asv model do you have?  I still have exhaustion and I'm not back to normal like I was 3 years ago when the sleep apnea and asthma started
trazodone may help deeper stage sleep, slow wave sleep; klonopin also seems to help but may cause lighter sleep
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I have been dealing with sleep apnea for at least 10 yrs now.  No luck with any CPAP machines and recently my dr suggested an asv machine.  Very expensive, but I was desperate.  It was very easy to sleep with.  It matched my breathing better than any other machine before, but unfortunately, after 3 months, it still hadn't helped my daytime sleepiness.

Now I'm looking for new options.
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1580703 tn?1651904887
I think klonopin treats seizures and somehow it make my sleep apnea less severe.  I don't wake up with headaches on klonopin, my body twitches when I fall asleep so maybe that's a seizure?
but I've begun to lose hope of getting better after asv not helping
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1580703 tn?1651904887
I think they are the best thing for sleep apnea, I'm trying to get UPPP surgery and tonsil surgery and septum surgery
my allergist for years kept on telling me to use steroidal nose sprays but they did nothing for me
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from what I've read CPAP machines are unpleasant and help little
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1580703 tn?1651904887
does anyone else have a cure or treatment for sleep apnea?
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