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Question: Can i get disability for high blood pressure and sleep apneaso can anyone in the group help me please?
Answer: Wow! A lot of misunderstandings about sleep apnea! It is not all the same. Some people have SEVERE sleep apnea, like myself. I am a danger on the road. I get lost, fall asleep, take hours to do things that should take minutes, because I am confused, in a daze, and foggy. Yes, I already use the CPAP. It just took my AHI from 44 to 12.5. I also have RLS. I don't feel any better at all! Getting sleep interrupted every 5 minutes all night long makes it impossible to work and be productive, dangerous to drive, and socially and productively a mess.The best thing to do is educate yourself and get proactive with your doctors. They need to get control of the blood pressure, and reduce your apneas to ZERO. Which I still don't have.As a Chief Financial Officer, I now stay home in a daze, dozing and barely able to function. If someone insists I drive to work, let them be sued when I kill someone. I will not take lives so casually.Before people respond to something they don't know about, they need to read the book "Sleep Apnea The Phantom of the Night". It is by Johnson Broughton Halberstadt, and the ISBN is 1-882431-05-7. Of countless books on sleep apnea, this one is excellent-it describes me perfectly. Give it to your doctor and make him read it!
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