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Greetings, I am a sufferer at 17 years of age, of mild OSA (5 desats/h) but experience significant trouble with sleep arousals, counted as an average of 37/h on the polysomnograph performed at charles gairdner hospital. I am unsure as to how much magnitude of cause can be attributed to the OSA and how much can be given to other reasons, such as my history of Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome, which is also concomitant apparently in a sordid three-way relationship between itself, autism and parental alcoholism. ---------------- Not Pertinent ----------------- I developed a raging mood disorder during my use of zolpidem and after two useless hospitalisations and 50 nights of dosage, I made the executive decision to immediately stop usage under the theory that this was essentially on a pharmacodynamic basis - benzodiazepine withdrawal. To date, four months later i can say the expected time schedule(BZ rehab) for recovery is coherent with actual results. The initial dysphoria and sense of panic found in waking life was so potent i would be compelled to vomit, and no doctor or emergency department could give me an explanation or respite from my woe. This gave way to a slowly dying but no less crippling anxiety which thankfully is becoming tolerable and i DO remain relentlessly optimistic about my recovery. I was earlier, months before my consult or knowledge of OSA, self-hospitalised twice for inability to sleep and tachycardia of 137bpm after use another GABA adulterant, the remarkably benign and generally excellent Kava Kava. So my angle is here that i have, how should i say, a pharmacogenomically atypical GABA receptor complex (remember parental alcoholism i mentioned earlier? yup, alcohol promotes GABA saturation in the brain.) ------------------------------------------------- I do know that each of the items have been found to be strongly related to autism, how and whether each relates to one another i cannot answer but i do think it would be of relevance to those studying them. Can i say with wry humour as a result, i am naturally bad at the art of sleep? Yes. I have been using amitriptyline as prescribed by, some of you may know him, Stewart Cullen from the CGH sleep clinic, and i have noticed marked improvement in cognitive function, but i am still so terribly lethargic and frankly dysfunctional that i think i need to invest in a MAS. I have extremely limited knowledge about the consumer scene except that i understand it is an extremely progressive one, especially in the US. Even our aforementioned man himself remarked that he was trying to get his own patent(s) accepted. Trawling the posts here, Somnomed has come under my radar, but that is all i know. Advice sought. Regards, Ben. |
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