DD, your poor daughter!!! It is just the worst feeling ever, waking feeling like someone has been standing on your chest. I hope her situation has improved, poor darling! I would have loved to have seen that program.
Mak, yeppers, I am always tired. I stay up late because I wait till I am soooo tired I know I will fall asleep rather than going to bed to try to go to sleep. I am constantly feeling like I am coming down with something. My ears/tonsils are sore right now! Was the op as painful as everyone keeps telling me? I figure it will be worth it.
Kim, I would get him to look into that too. Kind of good news to know about the weight. I know of several people who have it and they arent overweight either. It seems doctors always blame everything on weight. I know it does effect a lot of things but I dont see how it has made my tonsils bigger!!! Does he have a cpap machine? I am dreading having to get one. I hope I can avoid it.
I must admit that anything I have heard about sleep apnea effecting the heart and leading to high blood pressure and stroke has freaked me out a bit!
I've always snored and DH has often complained over the years that I would sit bolt upright in bed, or leap out, and I had no memory of it. I think perhaps I have always had it but it got so severe with my illness that I finally figured it out. (Slow learner???LOL)
Ah, there are worse illnesses but this does scare me! Plus it feels really scary in the night when it happens. I have been still awake at 4am, phoning dh at work in tears as I havent been able to go to sleep at all because every time I drift off I can feel it starting.
Yes my DH has a cpap machine and it's awful - it really help, but it's awful. He won't wear it cos it makes his nose stuffy so since his snoring is sooo bad he sleeps in the spare room unless he wears it. Sadly he can snore through that too.
Sazz - the recovery was not pleasant BUT I felt so much better instantly (aside from the pain, lol) that it kind of made up for it, IYKWIM. The pain was ok for the first 48 hours and then ramped up (prolly bc I hadn't taken any pain meds - not too smart). After 7 days it started to improve and did so quite quickly. Honestly my body was working so hard to fight the infection I only realised how sick I had been constantly feeling after it all disappeared. It is without a doubt the best thing I have done.
Is there anything else you wanted to know? Good luck!
Mak, I'm a bit worried about swelling after the surgery. Did you have any? I asked the dr and he said even with swelling it would still be roomier in there than it is now.
Definitely felt like there was heaps more room even straight after - my tonsils were massive too. The worst bit was the pain when it all started to heal and kinda get tight so it made swallowing painful. I tried to focus on the endpoint tho. xxx
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