Sleep apnea jaw
Common Questions and Answers about Sleep apnea jaw
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Dental devices are used as an option for obstructive sleep apnea patients who cannot tolerate CPAP. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends dental devices for patients with mild-to-moderate obstructive sleep apnea for whom the CPAP is not suitable or those who have failed on the CPAP machine.
The two common types of devices are the Mandibular advancement/ Mandibular Repositioning Device and the Tongue retaining device.
t have the typical sleep apnea characteristics with the exception that my jaw is very retracted and tongue restricted and my throat is very restricted. This he thinks would contribute to some apnea and that the sleep study should be able to determine some answers. In the meantime he told me to stop doing the jaw exercises the TMJ specialist had me doing which may have contributed to the throat and jaw restrictions.
I suggest you follow-up with you sleep apnea team, and consider undergoing a formal or in-home sleep apnea test for more definitive diagnosis. The mandibular advancement device should help, as well as CPAP. The dental device pulls your lower jaw forward, which pulls your tongue forward. If you have a long wait, there are inexpensive low-tech boil and bite models that are sold over the internet for snoring, which does the same thing, but not as well as the formal device.
The two other ways of treating obstructive sleep apnea is either a dental device that pulls the lower jaw forward at night (pulling the tongue forward), or surgery, which is a last resort. All these options work to various degrees, depending on your father's condition and the expertise and skill of the treating doctor.
There have been studies looking at using certain antidepressants and even acupuncture in the past.
Your symptoms of always being tired and depressed could be directly related if you have sleep apnea. Talk to a couple different sleep clinics and ask them what options there are for someone uninsured. If you decide to use a cpap machine, there are some called auto titrating machines that can test you at home and determine what pressure you need to keep your airways open. Not as thorough as a full fledged study in a sleep lab, but better than nothing. Gather information and see what you can do.
Your description sounds so much like what I described before being diagnosed with sleep apnea. By the way, not everyone with apnea snores and/or is overweight. Sometimes it has to do with throat and/or jaw structure, not weight.
All HMO's are different. Check with your provider. I've had two different HMO's and they both covered diagnosis and treatment.
t grind my teeth, but if I sleep in a certain position, I wake up with my lower jaw pushing outward against my upper teeth so hard that they hurt and ache for days. If I sleep in a normal position, the jaw muscles just ache with no tooth pain. The mouthpiece solved all that. And also, any of the occasional bouts of TMJ I would get, stopped. By this I mean the bouts I would have where I could hardly open my mouth without extreme pain for several consecutive days.
I have seen many specialists in regards to my snoring and sleep apnea (mild - did a sleep study 4 years ago, I am sure that my sleep apnea has worsen a bit). Some of the different specialists that I have seen are: ENT docs, Otolaryngologists, Internal Medicine/Respirologist, Dentist, and Sleep Disorder doctor. I have tried the CPAP for 2 years (hate it) and I am currently using the mouth-guard (where my jaw is moved forward).
With your sleep disordered breathing under control, you will return to a normal sleep pattern without drugs. I have sleep apnea as well and I will not even take a nap without my CPAP.
As for doctors not suggesting drugs, that hasn't been my experience. Quite the opposite. Write a script and on to the next patient.
Hi there! I got the results of my polysomnogram and the diagnosis stated "normal sleep study." There was nothing to indicate apnea - I had a 76.3% sleep efficiency over 344 min, with 67 min sleep latency, 216 Stage R latency, WASO 39 min, and my sleep stage percentages seemed okay at N1 9.9%, N2 56.7%, N3 17.9% and R 15.6%.
AHI was 5.2.
s been quite a lot of info out lately about kids diagnosed as ADHD or even having behavioral or learning problems actually having sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is associated with increased risk for cardiac disease, Type 2 Diabetes and High Blood Pressure. Oxygen deprivation to the brain can cause severe morning headaches, and possibly even brain damage when oxygen levels get too low.
There are technical definitions of what constitutes complex apnea and mixed sleep apnea, but I was really just pointing out some cases are outside the standard OSA. I've read that many machines you would rent will not differentiate centrals, but that some give better indicators in the data than others. I wish I could be more specific, that would be a research project.
m hoping if my jaw is wider, my to tongue would have more room to move. I also have sleep apnea. I use a cpap to fix it, but maybe fixing my back teeth will give my tongue more room and relieve some of my sleep apnea issues.
But I guess I'm now wondering how my face is going to change. My jaw currently curves in on my back teeth then out (the opposite of what it's supposed to do.) If they fix it to have my jaw curve out, how will it change my face profile?
As an overweight 45yo woman, the only suspicion my opthalmologist had was sleep apnea and maybe floppy eyelid syndrome (although my eyes dont appear elastic!).
After a positive result for sleep apnea I have been on cpap treatment for a couple of weeks. I am still sleeping badly while i learn to tolerate this treatment but as yet i have seen no difference to my sore and squinty eyes.
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