[DogDad]

Hi everybody, and thanks for all your posts. It drives me crazy I don’t have time to share my experience strength and hope by writing a proper post on this topic, because it is a very significant one for me. Hope to find time over New Year’s holiday.

For now, here’s my essential experience points:

–Youngest patient ever at the Stanford University Med Center Sleep Disorders Clinic back in the early 90’s. Saved my life. Wear nasal CPAP every night in lieu of surgery or other treatments.

–These days apnea diagnosis involves an iPad-style computer with a few electrodes one wears overnight at home for screening purposes, with a tentative Dx, a night in a sleep lab will be essential to measure pressure required.

–Another excellent sleep clinic is at Henry Ford Hospital near Detoit, across the border from Windsor, Ontario.

–Melatonin 3-6 gms very effective for me and wife, who also takes generic trazodone.

–Wife’s adverse effects on Paxil were horrible and included vomiting.

–Sereoquel tried but phased out because of horrible next day sedation at or above 37.5 mg/night.

–Ativan not optimal for sleep b/c of daytime grogginess, although different benzodiazapines may hit different receptors; educational comments from Dr. Jain might help here.

–alprazolam (Xanax) was dangerous for me because of absurdly short half-life, moved to Valium, which had a better withdrawal experience for getting off it.

–Diagnosis video on this site said I probably didn’t have ADD, but a radical difference in that I got high scores on the paper screening inventory posted on this site. Another inventory posted on the web, with scoring by the computer, suggested I have serious ADHD and recommended I see an ADD specialist without delay for an evaluation. I relate closely to most of the experiences discussed here, as does my wife, and I and check the latest discussions several times daily.

–That’s all I have time for; PM me for more info. Hope this helps.

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This Lifehacker post suggests a temporary search workaround:

http://lifehacker.com/5714674/how-to-search-lifehackercom-using-google

Replace <lifehacker.com> with <totallyadd.com> . Same principles as described in this post. There is also a video example included.

Moderator Aerin told me her team is working on adding search. Maybe this can help us for the time being.

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