Poor Sleep Drove Me Insane, and My Long Path to Recovery

Re:Poor Sleep Drove Me Insane, and My Long Path to Recovery by Wagthesam on Monday February 27, 2023 @07:31PM (#34964144)

One detail to add that I think was missing. My message is you need to own your diagnosis and treatment. But much of the work has to be done by doctors in partnership. These doctors do not have time to direct your treatment outside their specialities, so you need to own the entire process.

I had a team of specialists:

- Sleep: Dr Sinha (primary), AXG Sleep Diagnostics (for psg), Lofta, and Night Owl

- ENT: Dr. Gerald Kangelaris (nasal surgery), Dr Andrew H. Murr (consult)

- Allergist: Dr Opal Gupta (primary) and Dr Carmen Choy (amazing doctor! consult)

- Gastroenterologist: (upper gi endoscopy), unnamed as I dont recommend

- Sleep apnea surgical expert: Dr Kasey Li (triple board certified, best in the world)

- Primary care (One Medical)

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Re:Poor Sleep Drove Me Insane, and My Long Path to Recovery by anonymousnotme on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @08:52AM (#34969262)

I think that this is the real problem is that one needs to do one's own diagnoses and treatment; this will probably take a year or two to learn the ins and outs. I would pay good money for somebody that can be a good guide to finding the real root cause or causes.

I see your 2 allergist here. Had consult Dr. Choy, did not result in finding anything useful. I wonder if turbinate inflamation can be caused by something that would not show in those skins tests. Do you feel that Dr. Gupta is better than Dr. Choy?

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Re:Poor Sleep Drove Me Insane, and My Long Path to Recovery by Wagthesam on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @02:56PM (#34973973)

Dr choy is great and spent more time with me than expected. But I could not commute to Palo Alto every week for shots, so I used someone local. Both docs are top notch but Dr choy sent the extra mile

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