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My Dad is 62 and has very severe sleep apnea. He has tried many solutions over the years but none worked. Finally 3 years ago he had a brain tumor and underwent surgery to have part of it removed. The sleep apnea then came to the brain surgeon's attnetion and he naturally suggested my father do everything possible to get rid of it because not getting enough O2 to the brain during sleep is not a good thing at all for somone in this condition. The brain condition has detoriorated a bit lately and the doc thinks the sleep issue is to blame.
His sleep apnea is very very severe and watching him sleep is quite an experience. He has already lost 25+ lbs and is now ~ at an ideal weight. He is also training himself to sleep on the side -a very hard thing to do after sleeping on your back for over 60 years- and just had a surgery on the nose last week (again to ease breathing). The upper airways, however, are just to narrow (specilist's diagnosis) and I am not sure if the surgery will solve the problem. Sleeping on his back will for sure (when I or my mom used to push him on his side he did breathe almost normally) but I am not sure if the guy, or anyone his age, can manage that.
How would clenbuterol or albuterol work? If he took them the way bodybuilders take it, he could not sleep perhaps and would put his health in jeopardy but if he took it with an inhaler wouldn't it just open up the airways and not really affect overall metabolism so much? Would it then be safe for a 62 year old man? If it works, can he take it for years on end?
Thanks a lot
His sleep apnea is very very severe and watching him sleep is quite an experience. He has already lost 25+ lbs and is now ~ at an ideal weight. He is also training himself to sleep on the side -a very hard thing to do after sleeping on your back for over 60 years- and just had a surgery on the nose last week (again to ease breathing). The upper airways, however, are just to narrow (specilist's diagnosis) and I am not sure if the surgery will solve the problem. Sleeping on his back will for sure (when I or my mom used to push him on his side he did breathe almost normally) but I am not sure if the guy, or anyone his age, can manage that.
How would clenbuterol or albuterol work? If he took them the way bodybuilders take it, he could not sleep perhaps and would put his health in jeopardy but if he took it with an inhaler wouldn't it just open up the airways and not really affect overall metabolism so much? Would it then be safe for a 62 year old man? If it works, can he take it for years on end?
Thanks a lot