ptsd Posttraumatic Stress Disorder And Obstructive Sleep Apnea

[allan]

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome

http://psy.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/39/2/168

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Sleep Apnea, Apolipoprotein E (APOE), and Cognition.

This study is currently recruiting participants. Verified by Department of Veterans Affairs, May 2008First Received: April 15, 2005 Last Updated: August 25, 2008

http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00108641

Edited June 30, 2009 by allan

[sharon]

No matter what the mental disorder is, you still have to get a doctor to link the sleep apnea as a secondary condtion. By the way all mental disorders are rated under the same criteria except eating disorders. No mental disorder is any better or worst than the other to the person that have it.

[Pete53]

Its only PTSD that has to go the other step by proving a stressor that the VA can verify.

[allan]

This really gets my gut burning.

We pay millions & millions for studies conducted by the dept of Veterans Affairs. It's a completely profitable business using us as lab rats. But try to find the results of these studies. I've searched & searched & the results are, "No Study Results Posted", under "completed" studies.

Check out this link. http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=Veterans

Is it a matter of national security or compensation that the results are not posted?

[pigdriver]

John

Your preaching to the choir. Nam was my war also. I walked around for 37 years until I went to a Vet center because another vet told me about AO and DM2. When I was there the lady that interviewed told me I was suffering from PTSD and had all the symptoms that went along with it. Recently the nurse practioner at the VA told me that I had PTSD. I didn't bring up the subject, she did.When I told someone that knows me they weren't surprised. I walked around with issues for years, I just thought I was screwed up and different from other people. I never went to the VA because I thought it was for guys that really needed it and couldn't work or had no insurance.

Bill

[pigdriver]

Billy, the very same with me!!! never went to the VA for the very same reasons, you know, the guys that came back with no limbs etc and didn't have anywhere else to turn. Never joined any veterans group so I thought it was just me. I was diagnosed the very same way at the VAMC, I never brought it up, they told me I had the symptoms and all of them. All I know is after I left Nam and was discharged in 67 I was one messed up Marine and have been a mess for the last 42 years!! Well I've been through the C&P 2 weeks ago and will get copy of results when I return home from family reunion.

[clw4514]

John

Your preaching to the choir. Nam was my war also. I walked around for 37 years until I went to a Vet center because another vet told me about AO and DM2. When I was there the lady that interviewed told me I was suffering from PTSD and had all the symptoms that went along with it. Recently the nurse practioner at the VA told me that I had PTSD. I didn't bring up the subject, she did.When I told someone that knows me they weren't surprised. I walked around with issues for years, I just thought I was screwed up and different from other people. I never went to the VA because I thought it was for guys that really needed it and couldn't work or had no insurance.

Bill

same here....i just thought i was bat shit crazy!!! i was diagnosed with ptsd before i was even discharged. never knew it till i got my medical records yesterday. sure would have made life easier if i knew and was being treated.