http://doctorstevenpark.com/q-how-do-i-know-if-i-have-strep-throat How You Can Breathe Better, Sleep Better, And Live Better1 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:24:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://doctorstevenpark.com/q-how-do-i-know-if-i-have-strep-throat/comment-page-1#comment-1958 Steven Park Tue, 05 May 2009 01:10:08 +0000 http://doctorstevenpark.com/?p=347#comment-1958 What you're experiencing is a common situation. Sometimes, you just have to give it more time. If you have a data card readout, you should go over with your sleep doctor this information and come up with a plan. First, you have to make sure you don't have a leak. Then consider either lowering your pressure or switching to a bilevel or c-flex type of machine. If your nose is stuffy, this should be addressed as well. It sounds like you have severe obstructive sleep apnea. Definitely talk to your sleep doctor about this. There are ways of resolving these kind of issues. What you’re experiencing is a common situation. Sometimes, you just have to give it more time. If you have a data card readout, you should go over with your sleep doctor this information and come up with a plan. First, you have to make sure you don’t have a leak. Then consider either lowering your pressure or switching to a bilevel or c-flex type of machine. If your nose is stuffy, this should be addressed as well. It sounds like you have severe obstructive sleep apnea. Definitely talk to your sleep doctor about this. There are ways of resolving these kind of issues.

]]> http://doctorstevenpark.com/q-how-do-i-know-if-i-have-strep-throat/comment-page-1#comment-1919 Karen Mon, 04 May 2009 03:32:42 +0000 http://doctorstevenpark.com/?p=347#comment-1919 Hi Dr Park, Recently I had a test for apnea and I have it. I have a cpap and a full face mask because I breathe through my mouth mostly. Here is the problem. Most of the time I wake up with the mask off, blowing like crazy either on my chest or still in my hand. Once or twice it has been placed in its drawer. Any tips on how to keep the mask on? I go to sleep with it on but sometime during the night and I have no recollection of the time off it comes. I have trigeminal neuralgia on the left side from a tumor on the pons and that nerve. I wonder if this has anything to do with it. Otherwise I sleep well with it and feel much better when I wake up with it on since my o2 sats drop so low at night without it. Thanks for any tips you might have. Karen Hi Dr Park, Recently I had a test for apnea and I have it. I have a cpap and a full face mask because I breathe through my mouth mostly.
Here is the problem. Most of the time I wake up with the mask off, blowing like crazy either on my chest or still in my hand. Once or twice it has been placed in its drawer. Any tips on how to keep the mask on? I go to sleep with it on but sometime during the night and I have no recollection of the time off it comes.
I have trigeminal neuralgia on the left side from a tumor on the pons and that nerve. I wonder if this has anything to do with it. Otherwise I sleep well with it and feel much better when I wake up with it on since my o2 sats drop so low at night without it. Thanks for any tips you might have.
Karen

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