Medical Update

Mar 15, 2013 By JerrodBalzer in Life 2 Comments Tags: Conversion Disorder, CPAP, Diabetes, insulin, sleep apnea, vistaril

I haven’t posted one of these in a while. Today I go to get my new CPAP supplies. I’ve been having dystonic seizures during REM sleep and the idea is perhaps my sleep apnea is acting up. A recent sleep study did show that my pressure needs raised and I need to change to a different mask. It’s been three years since I got the machine, so it was due for an update.

So we’ll see if things improve after today.

As for my seizures, they’ve come back a bit. I’m still tons better with my Vistaril than without. I’m not having a handful a day like before. They have crept up to one or two, though, and there is the occasional nasty day of having several. And my doc put my on insulin. I’m still only Type 2 Diabetic, but despite my total lack of appetite, etc, my blood sugar is riding too high. Doc says I’m not eating frequently enough, so I have to work on that.

So some things are a tad worse but overall better than before, I think.

Pointy

Hi, Jerrod–have the new CPAP supplies helped? I hope so.
JerrodBalzer

Hey, Pointy! I’m about the same during the day, though better rested. However, I haven’t had any more issues during the night that I’ve noticed. It may be too early to tell but so far, so good! During the sleep study, the nurse had noticed strange activity, etc, until she raised the pressure. But she couldn’t say for sure because she wasn’t the doctor. Lol, I did have a short cataplectic-type seizure just before going to sleep that night, and she rushed in thinking there was something wrong with the wires because the readings were jumping a bit irregularly – then noticed I wasn’t responding and figured it out. I came out of it and told her I was cool, though.