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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Somewhere near here
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Legendary
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Somewhere near here
Posts: 11,427
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Very few sleep specialist have any experience with CSA. Believe me. I've tried to find a sleep specialist for CSA. So, if you stop breathing and snore, it is OSA. Treatments for CSA are limited. Some try a BiPAP machine. Otherwise, there are just phrenic nerve stimulators to force the diaphragm to contract.
I have a friend with both but they only treat the OSA. His CPAP treatment helps but does not solve all of his problems. He needs an anti-convulsive med for sleep because his CSA causes seizures before his breathing restarts.
I've spent a lot of time researching this because CSA was a primary cause of my father's death.
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