Ivermectin and Sleep Apnea
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I don't have time right now. Does it cure it?
In theory. The concept of this video is ivermectin has been shown to help with inflammation. Less inflammation means better breathing pathways.
Also, people could be suffering from chronic toxoplasmosis. In a study, 70% of sleep apnea patients have tested positive for this. Chronic toxoplasmosis doesn't necessarily mean an active symptomatic case but it shows up in bloodwork.
Ivermectin can treat toxoplasmosis which could be an underlying factor in causing someone's sleep apnea.
I have sleep apnea. It is not normally an infection problem. It is a situation where, when the body is supine, the tissues of the back of the tongue or the back of the palate sag and close the airway. It can sometimes be treated by radiotherapy to shrink the tissues or by surgery. Or use a CPAP machine. In lieu of that, tactics to mitigate it would be sleeping in a chair (erect airway), sleeping on your side (sideways sag not very blocking), or sleeping prone.
Whatever you do, have it treated. A lifetime can result in abnormal enlargement of the heart, trying to pump oxygenated blood that isn't there. I have that, too. A common symptom is snoring. I blew it off for decades. Foolish attitude.
Agreed. Diagnosed severe apnea 9 years ago and been using a CPAP since. Recently inquired about inspire and one of the top doctors is in my area but had to have another sleep study since the last one so long ago. Had my results call today. 45 times an hour I stopped breathing (normal is less than 5) and my oxygen levels dropping to 78%.
Have taken ivermectin several times over the past few years and never noticed any improvement but plan now to do more research.
Something's amiss with your CPAP, or you may have the wrong kind of mask. There could be leakage to the mask. Your pressure level may be too low. You need to get the attention of your sleep specialist pronto. Before I got my situation corrected, I was getting oxygen level at 85% and it was seriously impairing my thinking. This is absolutely unacceptable. It is like you have no CPAP at all. Please deal with this urgently.
The modern machinery has a wifi report back to your sleep specialist on the sleeping statistics. It sounds like no one is paying attention.
I personally wouldn't expect ivermectin to do anything. It would be like expecting aspirin to cure drowning. Sleep apnea is not a disease condition. No chemical is going to affect it.
I’ve already seen the doctor, the sleep study was without the CPAP…. the worst three nights of my life in the last several years. My numbers don’t look like that with the CPAP, but the hose is really starting to bother me after 9 years because the older I get the more I toss and turn in my sleep, so I wanted to inquire about inspire, especially as I travel, lugging around the CPAP is taking up way too much valuable space in my suitcase, preventing me from bringing additional souvenirs home … kek
I can't argue with you about the hose. But I have a way of dealing with it that seems to work. I drape the hose so that it comes up from the backside of the bed, over the pillows, to connect with the swivel joint on the top of my mask. I can sleep to either side or supine, and the hose just drapes back from my head, over the edge of the mattress, and under the headboard. I can't imagine doing it any other way. Entanglement would be a certainty. As a last resort, when my old CPAP unit tried to strangle me (long story), I took up sleeping in my TV recliner chair so my airway could be mainly vertical and the sagging tissues would not be a problem.
I looked up Inspire. Seems ingenious. My concern would be how often the battery would need to be replaced. Is the whole unit surgically implanted, or are there wire penetrations to the control / battery pack? Good luck.
I think he meant the sleep study is where the numbers came from. They don't wear masks then.
It's been a long time since I had a sleep study. I recall being rigged up for measurements and can't recall whether there was a mask or not. The numbers are very bad, however. And I did have poor results at the end of the "life" of my first CPAP machine. But I stand corrected. Thank you.
That is obstructive no? Central is far different and what I have.
You've got me. I wasn't aware there was another kind, or how it works.
I’m having a feeling they T Gondii epidemic is the real pandemic right now but the powers that be are afraid to say so.
Username checks out /s.
Yeah seems to because apparently besides it's anti-parasitic properties it's also a strong anti-inflammatory. May be good for blood vessels too.
Which means that it'll be good for tendonitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, allergies, and other inflammations. Wow.
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I've been taking ivermectin since 2021 as a therapeutic against covid. No sleep apnea is a side effect!
Are you saying you noticed a significant improvement?
How often do you take it as a therapeutic and what dose do you use. I also have sleep apnea and would like to give it a try.
Nice find. Thanks. :)
Interesting.