Making A Case

[panamared1951]

I was diagnoised with severe sleep apnea a few months ago and placed on a c-pap machine. Until that time I had never heard of sleep apnea. I have nothing in my active duty medical records to prove this was a problem from my early years in service. All I was ever told when I asked doctors about the extremely loud and constant snoring my wife complained about was to sleep on my side, raise the head of the bed, or try using multiple pillows.

What if any statements could my family provide that may be considered and accepted by the VA, or is it too late to try and have this problem considered. I have been refered to a Psychiatrist and placed on medication to try and help me over the anxiety attacks I have using the mask or nasal cannula . The sleep disorder physician added another medication to help stop me acting out the dreams I have. This dream acting has resulted in myself and my living companion to take seperate bedrooms. I was frequently hitting, kicking, or due to the snoring keeping her up all hours of the night. It was impossible for her to get any quality rest and she has a very stressful and demanding job.

Any views will be appreciated and feel free to mail me direct please.

Thanks in advance to anyone that gets in touch reference this issue. I live in Savannah GA and if any board members are close to here I would be glad to meet sometime.

Ron Riley

panamared1951@yahoo.com

[panamared1951]

I was diagnoised with severe sleep apnea a few months ago and placed on a c-pap machine. Until that time I had never heard of sleep apnea. I have nothing in my active duty medical records to prove this was a problem from my early years in service. All I was ever told when I asked doctors about the extremely loud and constant snoring my wife complained about was to sleep on my side, raise the head of the bed, or try using multiple pillows.

What if any statements could my family provide that may be considered and accepted by the VA, or is it too late to try and have this problem considered. I have been refered to a Psychiatrist and placed on medication to try and help me over the anxiety attacks I have using the mask or nasal cannula . The sleep disorder physician added another medication to help stop me acting out the dreams I have. This dream acting has resulted in myself and my living companion to take seperate bedrooms. I was frequently hitting, kicking, or due to the snoring keeping her up all hours of the night. It was impossible for her to get any quality rest and she has a very stressful and demanding job.

Any views will be appreciated and feel free to mail me direct please.

Thanks in advance to anyone that gets in touch reference this issue. I live in Savannah GA and if any board members are close to here I would be glad to meet sometime.

Ron Riley

panamared1951@yahoo.com

[panamared1951]

When I told the current Psy DR I had nightmares he did not thinkmuch of it evidently. I have some off the most off the wall dreams to say the least.

Such as being in a house/shack of sorts on stilts over the water and from the waters edge back is covered in grass about shoulder high. There are people coming through the walls, not the door or windows, after me. Everytime I try to fire my rifle it is like I have bullets with no powder in them, just a slight sound but nothing else. This happens everytime I try to shoot. Then this one moves on to me outside sitting outside along side of another person and there is a body in front of me with no head. Who or what cut off the head I don't know. I am holding the severed head by the hair in my left hand and using a knife in the right hand to peel the head down to the skull. I tell myself I have to keep the face of the head I am holding turned away from the person that is sitting next to me for it is their head, and that head belongs to my X wife who is the one sitting next to me. Makes no damn sense I now but is what or the type of dreams I have so very often. It is never one that I win the lottery trust me.