father of sleep
My father is suffering from Sleep Apnea for more than 5 years now, and refuses to get any treatment. Tried to go to Sleeping laboratory should be monitored, but left in the middle of the sleep study and got frustrated.
Also be overweight, however, this is not a smoker. If diagnosed with Obstructive Sleep Apnea, he was extremely nervous, and it affects his work and personal life greatly.
Please advice any tips that might help improving case, bearing in mind that it is very depressed and refuses to get any treatment.
Thank you in advance
Your father has Sleep Apnea knows, but refuses to get any treatment ...How can a doctor to a patient who does not want to help? How you can help your father?
A person with Sleep Apnea and clinical depression is more difficult to treat a woman with the same problem.
I think that when a man denial about a serious health problem, it is actually very scared:
scared of death,
scared people hesitation when the side of his face droop after a stroke,
scared is not able to protect and provide for their partners and family (our culture socializes boys in taking these expectations, the girls are socialized to caring, creative and. .. nurturing obviously a controversial issue)
A lot of men did not want to admit sign of weakness, and also can associate CPAP with elderly men and do not want to be reminded that they are obsolete.
If you tell your father that went on a study of sleep, but left in the middle of a session, then it sounds like your father knows anything about goofy, but he knows that he can kill him?
Don't let worry most of them already, so don't Take it. My friend's Dad had Sleep Apnea and CPAP machine loathed, so much that if his mother was not careful, will take off, and suffered a heart attack and died from it.
If you have not already done so, to explain that to him, and how it will make you feel if that happened. CPAP therapy is best for Sleep Apnea patients. Maybe the machine will seem less irritating if you know that this will save his life.
I wonder if your father is aware of the effects of untreated Sleep Apnea, which is serious and systematic. Some of them are as follows:
increased risk of heart attack and stroke
increased blood pressure
heart arrhythmias
nocturia (because of the increased pressure in the right ventricle heart makes the House seem much blood volume so produced urine)
headache
excessive fatigue and day counter sleepiness
problems with memory and concentration
weight gain (sleep deprivation causes the weight for many physiological reasons, one is the modification of the hormone leptin and ghrelin)
Type 2 diabetes
There is a link between sleep and GERD
night
depression
anxiety (each apnea event, is a real thirst and elicits the response adrenalin "Fright or flight")
The symptoms of fibromyalgia
incompetence
issues and working relationship
car accidents
I can tell you that CPAP treatment is the key to a healthy life for your father, but depression and obesity and the rest of the side effects of sleep disorders. However, I believe your father wants to talk about it.
In my opinion, no longer through the stages when not all face loss. In your case, I think it is a loss of what he considers good health or freedom and is now bound in this life. And I think the thing "for life" really bother him.
This CPAP is important, and for some it is extremely difficult to adapt. But tearing my heart to see the effects of the incompatible CPAP users, and what it does to their favorite. Often it is simply because the person does not know or understand what impact for them.
I wonder if you could help if you speak with your doctor about your own, then met with the doctor about his. This is likely to be more receptive to words of a doctor.
I recommend also bumber zone for improvement of Obstructive Sleep Apnea, but it works only for patients with mild or moderate sleep apnea. Your father may have serious symptoms and if you look at that position treatment doesn't work, can be more depressed than before.
Thus, a complete sleep study and CPAP treatment is the answer to your question. There is no other magic way, and it is dangerous to look for alternative treatments, when your father is already suffering from depression.
An alternative approach might work for some, but not always work if CPAP your father have adequate pressure settings (that's why you need a sleep study), and the correct mask (you need to test numerous CPAP masks, before buying one).
As difficult as it is sleep apnea, there are worse things can happen to their health. This really needs to find out, and I hope that things work.
Best of luck!
Attila
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