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Call your doctor at once if you have:

• shortness of breath (even with mild exertion), swelling, rapid weight gain;
  
  
• chest pain, wheezing, trouble breathing, dry cough, or coughing up mucus;
  
  
• breathing problems while lying down trying to sleep;
  
  
• severe dizziness, fainting, fast or pounding heartbeats;
  
  
• slow heart rate, feeling like you might pass out;
  
  
• a new or a worsening irregular heartbeat pattern;
  
  
• kidney problems--little or no urination, swelling in your feet or ankles, feeling tired or short of breath; or
  
  
• liver problems--nausea, upper stomach pain, itching, unusual tiredness, loss of appetite, dark urine, clay-colored stools, jaundice (yellowing of the skin or eyes).
  

(11-06-2018, 07:11 AM)MyronH Wrote: Around 6pm I started having unusual tiredness, malaise. I had this type of feeling the past, and usually associated it with my Multaq medicine for AFIB. I didnt think much of it, but I went to bed around 10p. I noticed when I layed down it was a little bit more difficult to breathe, like my throat was closing off. Or like something was stuck in my throat.

I went to sleep, then at 2:20am, woke up with drenching night sweats, and like my heart and lungs was really struggling to keep me breathing at night.

I have been video recording myself to catch an event like this. When I woke up at 2:30am with night sweats, I reviewed the video. and my sleepyhead logs. The video clearly shows me mouth breathing and struggling to breathe.  I slept on my back with cervical neck collar which has been helping prevent obstructions. I also inadvertently raised my left leg up at my knee. My leg was bent at the knee, and stayed there for about 30min during this episode. I'm not sure if raising my leg could cause breathing issues or what happened  (look at Restless Leg Syndrome which I do not think you have FB).  After about 30min, my leg went back down and I woke up.

I woke up not feeling well, drenched in sweats, dry mouth, and like my throat was closed off. Felt like something was in my throat closing it off at the Adam's apple.


I already sent this information to my doctors this morning. I don't know what to do at this point. Is this some form of UARS, or is my Multaq medicine causing breathing difficulties in me? Is it a spinal issue with my neck that is closing off the airway? Or is it an food allergy issue closing my throat off.

It seems to get worse on these nights, when I lay down. Then it feels like me throat is closed off, and I have trouble breathing. When I sit up, it gets better. I'm seriously thinking it could be Multaq causing some heart and breathing issues in me. But I don't know what to do at this point, since none of my doctors had answers in the past.

(11-06-2018, 09:45 AM)bonjour Wrote: Add these detail charts, and always a full night chart to provide context.
1:55-1:57 (the "good" section)
2:00-2:02 (the Start of the bad)
2:02-2:04 (the Start of the bad)
2:04-2:06 (the Start of the bad)
2:09-2:12 (very low flow period)
2:21-2:23 (a period after what looks like the worst)

I honestly don't know what this will show, my hope is some good info to show a pulmonologist and get you traveling down the right path.

Fred

(11-06-2018, 12:43 PM)MyronH Wrote: I just got off the damn phone with my sleep doctor. He claims he looked at my report for last night, and didn't see any issues and that my AHI was low. He also didn't have any comments about my NIGHT SWEATS, even though they were severe last night.

Another sleep doctor I went to, that puts a PES device in your nose and down your throat called me. They said they use it to measure negative pressure in the throat. I made a sleep study appointment with them, but it isn't until December. Not sure if this will benefit me or not?

(11-06-2018, 01:19 PM)crowtor Wrote:

(11-06-2018, 12:43 PM)MyronH Wrote: I just got off the damn phone with my sleep doctor. He claims he looked at my report for last night, and didn't see any issues and that my AHI was low. He also didn't have any comments about my NIGHT SWEATS, even though they were severe last night.

Another sleep doctor I went to, that puts a PES device in your nose and down your throat called me. They said they use it to measure negative pressure in the throat. I made a sleep study appointment with them, but it isn't until December. Not sure if this will benefit me or not?

It will, thats how to diagnose UARS.