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Permalink Reply by susan mccord on August 16, 2009 at 11:55am

Rock, for whatever it's worth, I'm 67 and look quite a lot younger than my age. I'm not far along with all this yet (but I will be, trust me!) to be clear about stage 3 sleep, but I AM interested in knowing more about physical appearance as it relates to sleep disorder. Before all this apnea stuff really curtailed my exercise regimen, I was very active and walked briskly every day. Have not been able to sustain that for, probably, a couple of years now. NOT good for heart disease.. or apparently for maintaining my youthful image!!!!! LOL

Susan McCord :-)

Rock Hinkle said:

I have found that older people that look younger tend to retain more stage 3 sleep. These same people (at least the ones I have asked) tend to get some sort of daily exercise. These are just my own observations though.

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Permalink Reply by susan mccord on August 16, 2009 at 12:10pm

Hey, this is to any of you guys who are involved in this particular thread of discussion.
Do you think I'll recover any of the cognitive/memory loss I've sustained the past couple of years that's now clearly tied to severe sleep apnea, as I continue tx on CPAP?
The reason I'm asking, besides the essential quality of life thing that I've been missing for two years. I'm a clinical social worker, retired, but I'm noticing a significant lack of emotional support in the professional therapeutic community, i.e., social work, psychology, for patients who are trying to cope, particularly in the early stages of diagnosis. THAT could bring me out of retirement!!! I'm on a bandwagon here, and as soon as I get some energy back, I'm gonna be looking into some kind of training to prepare me for returning to practice in this field. I have many years of experience in psychiatric social work, medical social work with cancer patients and their families, and Hospice (from which I retired due to exhaustion and cardiac issues 2 years ago--against my will!!)
So, my question stands to you all--will I regain cognitive/memory skills now that I'm seeing some success with CPAP tx? That will be critical if I'm to resume active practice in this field as a therapist. Trust me, there is NOTHING I'm aware of going on in my profession related to tx of sleep disorders. I can't believe it!!!, but there isn't. Thanks for your thoughts on this.....

Susan McCord

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Permalink Reply by RockRpsgt on August 16, 2009 at 12:41pm

I would think that by getting a better quality of sleep that you should see improvement in quite a few areas. To be honest susan, who knows which areas will get better and which won't. I would like to think that you should begin seeing physical and mental reahabilitation. It is different with each patient though.

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Permalink Reply by Henning on August 16, 2009 at 9:49pm

Susan,

Currently you can do nothing about your genes.

But there are many opportunities for a better sleep.

I would recommend you to read Dr. Park's book, "Sleep, interrupted". Here you can read about a number of ways to improve your sleep.

Although the best way is to select parents with good genes. (LOL)

Henning

susan mccord said:

Rock, for whatever it's worth, I'm 67 and look quite a lot younger than my age. I'm not far along with all this yet (but I will be, trust me!) to be clear about stage 3 sleep, but I AM interested in knowing more about physical appearance as it relates to sleep disorder. Before all this apnea stuff really curtailed my exercise regimen, I was very active and walked briskly every day. Have not been able to sustain that for, probably, a couple of years now. NOT good for heart disease.. or apparently for maintaining my youthful image!!!!! LOL
Susan McCord :-)
Rock Hinkle said:

I have found that older people that look younger tend to retain more stage 3 sleep. These same people (at least the ones I have asked) tend to get some sort of daily exercise. These are just my own observations though.

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Permalink Reply by RockRpsgt on August 16, 2009 at 10:47pm

darn it! Failed again!

Henning said:

Susan,

Currently you can do nothing about your genes.

But there are many opportunities for a better sleep.

I would recommend you to read Dr. Park's book, "Sleep, interrupted". Here you can read about a number of ways to improve your sleep.

Although the best way is to select parents with good genes. (LOL)

Henning

susan mccord said:

Rock, for whatever it's worth, I'm 67 and look quite a lot younger than my age. I'm not far along with all this yet (but I will be, trust me!) to be clear about stage 3 sleep, but I AM interested in knowing more about physical appearance as it relates to sleep disorder. Before all this apnea stuff really curtailed my exercise regimen, I was very active and walked briskly every day. Have not been able to sustain that for, probably, a couple of years now. NOT good for heart disease.. or apparently for maintaining my youthful image!!!!! LOL
Susan McCord :-)
Rock Hinkle said:

I have found that older people that look younger tend to retain more stage 3 sleep. These same people (at least the ones I have asked) tend to get some sort of daily exercise. These are just my own observations though.

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