On 5/28/2011 9:06 PM, Robert Green wrote:
"The Daring wrote in message
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On 5/28/2011 7:05 PM, G. Morgan wrote:
The Daring Dufas wrote:

I wake up a lot of times and find that my hand has been resting on
the space bar or a single letter which can fill up dozens of pages
or until the computer GRONKS. Darn it I got a lot of work to do
and just got off the phone with my buddy I do a lot of AC work with.
We have a 7.5 ton evaporator coil on the way that we have to change
out for a pharmacy and I desperately need my energy level to return
to normal or at least somewhat normal. :-(

You may want to ask the doc. for a stimulant. If you fall asleep and
aspirate stuff from your mouth to the lungs you could be in a lot of
trouble.


http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/cele...ex.html?hpt=T2


Oh man, I liked Jeff Conaway, he was in a lot of my favorite shows. I
made a trip to the pharmacy this afternoon and I stopped at the closest
convenience store to get the largest Monster Energy Drink on sale there
because I didn't want to pass out while driving. I despise taking drugs
and take as little as I can get away with except for the antibiotics
which I take on schedule until they're all gone. ^_^

TDD

If you snore (and living alone, that's often hard to tell - get a cheap tape
recorder to be sure) you've probably got sleep apnea. During the night,
your airway closes up and when the oxygen in your blood gets too low, you
wake up. This can happen 100's of times in an evening. Stimulants will
help, for a while, but eventually the nights of low oxygen sleep will get to
you. My boss had it and drove off the road into the side of a local high
school. Fortunately no one was injured, but he finally got to a sleep
specialist that put him on a polysomnograph and measured the times he woke
up from the mini-asphxiations. 141. His oxygen level dropped to near
critical levels as well. Sleep like that is almost like no sleep at all.
Some people actually go psychotic from the lack of sleep if it goes on long
enough.

The put him on a CPAP (forced air mask system that keeps your windpipe open
by pressurizing it) and he improved immediately. The people I know who've
had their apnea cured say it's like getting your life back. It's serious
business, Duf, get it checked out. The energy drinks are not the answer.
They are actually making your overall fatigue worse as they squeeze out
every bit of reserve power you have left.

--
Bobby G.



Thanks Robert, I don't snore unless I'm in the wrong sleeping position
and I can tell because my mouth will be dry when I wake. My lack of
sleep I'm now suffering from is due to the respiratory problems I've
had as of late. When I was in the hospital, the doctors changed some of
my medication and I felt like I was drowning because I could get no air.
It turned out I had fluid in my lungs so I was given Lasix intravenously
and I peed out two gallon in a hour and could breath again. I may have
to get on a steroid nasal spray because I'll wake in
the middle of the night because my sinuses close up. I've always had
trouble breathing thanks to those adults who exposed me to tobacco smoke
from the time I was in the womb. I can't hate them for it because they
didn't know any better back in the middle of the last century. I sure
can resent it though. Nowadays there is no excuse to expose children to
that sort of pollution because no one, not even the dumbest of people,
can claim ignorance. Tobacco smoke is like tear gas to me. :-)

TDD