Re: YAWNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!>confused

[Guest guest]

Dear , I yawned after my first surgery in May 97 like anyone else,

except during bad fatigue spells Id yawn more, but not a darn thing unusual

happened until the summer of 1998 I started noticing my yawns would not go

all the way through, like they would stop! In mid-yawing. You know how how

you yawn: Your brain basically needs to expel oxygen and blood gases that are

a normal part of our systems way of cleansing the oxygen system, when we are

tired or excessively tired this brain action takes place even more, the need

to exhale those gases and oxygen are even greater (been studying this stuff),

you notice the sense of relief that one gets after yawning because it has

expelled what is not needed and your brain and body is performing a normal

function? When my Diaphragm was becoming slowly paralyzed it couldn't

produce this function, so I would always feel full, extreme heaviness in

chest that could have been consistent with my scoliosis or syringomyliea

itself, but since the yawn more and more would not go through I would start

to pass out, lips turning blue, and have a greater need more and more for

oxygen. When I finally blacked out cold and they took me to ER, we decided I

needed my now tanks to eliminate the ER drama that I hate.

I started feeling a bit better about a year ago, so we decided to move to

California, thinking maybe it was the air in Colorado, so we did, I became

really really ill within months and it came back even worse, only this time

it didn't get better, my swallowing beacmes even more serious, I had planned

and replanned to come back here and have more brain surgery, instead we opted

to move back, since we missed all our friends anyway. I came back was in

hospital for 6 days in Setp, one month later and came home basically the

same, with breathing problems still increasing. We planned more brain surgery

again! but I insisted I see my pulmonary doctor at the hospital first because

I really truly believed I needed an answer once and for all because I had

gone to every doctor I could find. I told him first thing about the yawing,

that it was almost non existent at this point and I could barley sit long

enough to stand it anylonger and before I was going into my brain and spine

again I wanted to know WHY THE HELL I COLDNT BREATH! or YAWN FOR SOOOOOOO

LONG. He examined me and seemed to know immediately, he asked howlong Id been

living like this " I told him since 2 summers ago " , He couldn't believe it

since I had little and no air. I went through a session of tests and they

found my problem " unusual for my age. " Which explained it all, after all

this time, but then asked when I could schedule surgery, well certainly not

today? I am still undergoing tests and for my partial blindness, I lost 60%

of my hearing in my left ear and 30% in right because of compression. When I

had my first surgery I had a severely compressed posterior fossa/ forum

magnun(sp), absolutely NO flow, syringomyelia that was progressive and slow

progressive scoliosis. Now IM back to square one, only worse than I started

all those years ago. I have no idea at thispoint what they will do to fix my

brain and spine now hat we know ALL my distinctions and the bad level they

are at, but I have no choice, I have to do whatever is necessary. Hope I

explained the yawing OK to you. Its basically like this, I was symptomatic

for wayyyyyyyyyy, wayyyyyyy too long before my first surgery and suffered

lots of damage, now there where I am again, one of those unusual situation

you hear of that have had bizarre outcomes, like a few others I personally

know. Peace and God Bless

Dawn

[Guest guest]

Dawn,

I'm a little confused.

Did you yawn allot before surgery and then after surgery you could no longer

yawn?

How does not being able to yawn manifest itself? Was the ability to yawn a

gradual loss? How do you know you need to yawn?

later,

pa cindy