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I found this nice tid bit of information that you may want to check out...maybe for some it would explain why they are in limbo land for so long....see what you think.....View Thread



The sleep study Tech gave me this bad that forces my mouth to stay shut during sleep ,I told him that I was haveing problems chokeing and caughing and sometimes vommiting during sleep because my gag reflex is so messed up that caughing sometimes makes me vommit. But useing that band to keep my mouth closed during sleep be dangerous and cause me to drown in my own vommit? Hind sight tells me it would So I'm choosing not to use it.View Thread

I don't know about the proceedures for or in how the process goes other than each case is evaluated and gone over ny the entire Neurological team, and a treatment plan is proposed and a bunch of other steps that I probably am not aware of or that I missed but I still don't know why It's going to be another 5 months before I see him again....
Gotta cont...again seperately......View Thread

He was very understanding and the evidence for what I have come up with supports my findings and he agrees with me and told me he had to run one test that did not get completed and one test that needs to be current before he can give me a Definate Diagnossis of PSP....He is the head Neurologist for both the V.A. hospital and the University Hospital and sgreed that four years of testing and retesting and still no diagnossis or trearment is way too long....
I'll have to continue this Because this site times out on me and I loose everything I type...So Cont.....View Thread


I called the V.A. sleep dept. and explained what is going on but they didn't tell me to stop useing it, they just want me to bring in the sd card from the machine so they can down load the information from it.To see if it shows any signs of asperation.View Thread


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