Re: Medical Mystery on losing oxygen at nighttime. Not apnea.

July 30, 2010

It could be that your anatomy is such that a part of your brainstem is

compressed, and if the correct cranial nerve within the brainstem is compressed,

it causes us to breathe very shallow. And less times per 5 minutes for example.

Also, narcotics can have this same effect. They repress respiration. I had this

happen in the hospital post TC surgery. I was on Dilaudid for over 2 days, and I

was hitting the pain pump button every 15 minutes for all that time. I overdosed

on the Dilaudid (which went unnoticed by the hospital staff), until a gal came

in to check my vitals and stats.

I remember her saying, " oh, dear, that's not right, " and then I must have passed

out. My sister came in the room and told me later that nurses were crowded

around my bed and when she asked what happened, she was told that I had

" bottomed out on her 02. "

They took me off Dilaudid and it took me days to get better and to get my " mind "

back, but that's a different story. So, I do know for sure that narcotics

repress the respiration. Something like that happened to .

So, either you have BS compression, or are on narcotics at a dosage that is

causing you to breathe shallow, and not as often. By the next morning, since you

are not waking up to take deep breaths like you'd do when you are awake, you

would be oxygen deprived. If this is true, then it is imperative that you cut

back on the narcotics!! Immediately, if not sooner, but always under a doctor's

guidance.

that's my thought on it, anyway

Virginia

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> Hi everyone. Hope you are all doing well. I have a question. It seems I am

losing oxygen in my sleep so they have me on oxygen at nighttime now. They have

no clue why I am doing this. It is NOT apnea as they did a sleep study. Give me

your thoughts on this and ideas please so I can run this by the doctor. He has

sent me to a few specialists so far and I would love to find the answer before I

have to see yet another one! LOL! Prayers going out as usual that you are all

recieving a healing.

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