I have had sleep apnea for 15 years. I just started using cpap in past
few years.
before using cpap, i'd fall asleep in wheelchair around lunch time. i
had hard time waking up & staying awake.
I do not remember being exhausted like you are. aftereating?
i do not remember having breathing problems either.
but everybody different.
Derrick
On 6/9/21 12:53 PM, Eric Olson wrote:
Well that sucks. Hope you get some answers
On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 3:52 PM Greg <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Still having a helluva problem breathing. I had a heart ablation,
they
use anesthesia and intubated me. The procedure was pretty simple, but
when I woke up I was out of breath and breathing very hard. They
thought
the anesthesia just paralyzed my diaphragm for a little while. It's
going on three weeks or so and things seem to be getting worse. They
also thought it was too much CO2 in my blood because my breathing
was so
shallow. That seems to be getting better, I still get out of
breath very
easy. I can write about four words but then I'm exhausted. Or I
can eat
about two bites and I have to recline because I'm so exhausted. My
vital
statistics are all great blood pressure, oxygen levels, breathing
well
up in my chair, heart rate. The cardiologist and the lung doctor say
everything looks good. But just laying in bed makes it hard to
breathe
and I need to use a respirator at night. Sometimes during the day
when I
feel bad. When I'm up in my chair I feel like I breathing just as
well
as normal. Just nothing makes sense. I was back in the ER last
week and
spent three days doing test. And they find nothing. Does anyone have
sleep apnea? How tired you get throughout the day before you used to
CPAP. The sleep studies the only thing I haven't had yet, but I
know my
breathing is very shallow at night. I just wouldn't think I could be
that exhausted from sleep apnea. But maybe.
Greg
