Carthage forever.

dr.e

If you don't find what you're looking for from the web, please call Dr. Bill Thies. He is the VP for medical and scientific research, has been with the Association for about 12 years and is up on most valid research. He is also very kind and doesn't mind taking a phone call. The internal number at the Association is 312-335-8700. Don't call the 800 number as that is a “helpline” & fundraising number. Tell Bill you were referred by (former board chair) g. c. healy. He'll know who that is.

Chances are very good you are worrying for nothing, but look beyond one study, to ease your mind. For what it's worth, I sleep maybe five hours a night and have brains farts galore. Take care of the apnea…that sounds like the real issue.

God bless.

You will sleep like a baby if you get cpap callibrated and IF you need oxygen, get it. I know it's all star trek looking and all, kinda weird and kinda sexy at the same time. But, most of all, apnea is nothing to mess with. It's here, and alzheimers is unlikely. Listen to CStanley, she has a science background, and I'd add, possibility is no sure correlation to outcome in most health issues. But it IS, psychologically.

Taking oppty to think positively about your health future is one useful form of psychological armor, and given that it is said/ shown in quite a few evidence based studies that high cortisol can adversely affect health and it goes high in the body when people are under stress or thinking fearfully or negatively unecessarily…. then, you know, not giving ourselves, 'the med student's disease' thinking we have everything under the sun… it's good to avoid that pit and backfill it in with your version of sunlight and determination for best health possible, which means aiming toward best outcomes possible.

You and I know we have 'delicate' health, but strong spirits. That's a good thing… even though last time I had medical student's disease I thought for sure I had leprosy (Loss tiny area (size of pencil pont) of pigment on arm)… and before that, I thought I probably had bartlett's or barrette's (one of those) syndrome when I read that a sore throat isnt always a sore throat, it could be dum dum dum , some horrible precurser to death and worse.

I hope that made you laugh. I seem not to have leprosy or barrette, bartlette's syndrome. And I think you need more oxygen/ breath without interruption in your sleep cycles so you STAY asleep in the deeper brain wave cycles where cells are repaired and renewed, and true deep rest takes place, instead of coming to theshhold of waking completely in beta cycle brain waves hundreds of times a night, not to mention that one second struggle for breath that goes on many times an hour with apnea.

Let us know. Dont make us come up there.

with kindest regards,
dr.e

If that's true, my risk for getting dementia (which is actually a fear of mine) just dropped, because I never sleep. Okay, that's an exaggeration, but not much of one. Here it is 2:40 am, and I am still typing merrily away. And when I do finally get to bed, I will not sleep. Around 6, 6:30, 7 am, I usually drift off, and then I sleep fitfully until late morning or early afternoon.

I am told this is a typical pattern with depression. People go to bed later and later until they're staying up all night and sleeping most of the day. But the thing is with me, even when I do sleep, I don't sleep soundly or uninterruptedly.

Somehow, I seem to get by, though.