jimboy124:
scanialady142:
Who is doom and gloom now■■?Just have a look at all of your 135 posts and see how many are about death,tragedy or destruction!!
Then look at mine!!
and by the way "was it cold in the ground this morning “”
If a driver is diagnosed as suffering from Diabetes then he usually loses his LGV licence. Same with some heart conditions. Surely this sleep apnea problem should be treated in the same way as it is just as dangerous. A driver nodding off at the wheel of a loaded truck is lethal.
Just as lethal as any drugged driver or drink driver.
I feel sorry for anybody who has an illness sor condition that effects there livelihood but from a sensible point of view only fit and healthy drivers should be at the wheel.
No doubt i will be shot down by loads of others who sympathise with the poor guys scondition but unfit to drive is unfit to drive and thats my opinion.
there is no comparison between drink/drugged drivers and sleep apnaeo.
With OSA, when diagnosed, you have enough knowledge to be able to manage it.
Contrary to what some have posted you do not suddenly fall asleep without warning.
As regards diabetes, if you are insulin dependant you will almost certainly lose your licence, but strangely a PSV driver in Germany is allowed to drive a coach whilst suffering from the same condition and as far as I am aware this includes driving in the UK.
The Bear:
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:30 am
Have just seen this post but am about to go to bed… will make a full post when I return.(from someone who THOUGHT he had Sleep Aponea)
Wakey, wakey. That’s some kip you’re having and we are waiting to hear about your experience.
Coffeeholic:
The Bear:
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:30 am
Have just seen this post but am about to go to bed… will make a full post when I return.(from someone who THOUGHT he had Sleep Aponea)
Wakey, wakey. That’s some kip you’re having and we are waiting to hear about your experience.
I only just got home, Coffee, yer sarky git!!!
Right, I was told a long time ago by a bird I was seeing that I had Sleep Aponea. I had never heard of it and ignored her.
It seemed I snored loud enough to wake the dead (I used to wake my self up, I know that).
It was an embarrassment sharing a cabin on the ferries etc.
Then I started reading more and more about SA. Naturally it bothered me. NO matter what time I went to bed or got up, every morning around 10am, I would feel my eyes start closing. It didn’t matter if I had got up at 4am or 9am, every day at 11, I would start falling asleep. Of course, as soon as I started feeling like this, I would pull over, have 15 or 20 minutes and off I would go again as right as rain.
Of course it bothered me but I also knew that if I went to the doctor, I might lose my licence and for someone that only knows one thing ie diesel then that was a problem.
Wifey has been telling me for years about my snoring.
Well, this problem was getting worse and worse. After several close calls last year, I decided it was going to land me in a lot of trouble. Either I was going to kill myself or I would kill others. So I went to the doctors.
I had a couple of things I wanted to speak to her about and during the appointment I bought up the problem of my falling asleep and innocently asked if it could be because of my weight.
The doctor recalled I had had an operation several years ago to build me new nostrils. Mine had closed up due to breaking my nose many years ago and I hadn’t had it reset… let it heal naturally. Thus the bone in my nostrils had fused and they were pratically closed. So the hospital took me in for a morning, knocked me out and drilled me new nostrils.
I mentioned to her about my sinuses always being blocked and asked if they still did sinus washouts. She told me that she wouldn’t wish that on her worst enemy. Apparently they drill 4 holes in the roof of your mouth to drain them.
BUT she did wonder if it was because of my sinuses that I wasn’t sleeeping well and was always tired.
So with a prescription that would keep a hypocondriac in ■■■■■■■ for months I left the doctors.
I now have to take 4 tablets a day ( 3 of them for life ) and a serious prescription nose spray, off I went. The nose spray is a prescribed only steroid one.
Obviously I never noticed any difference for about 3 weeks. Then all of a sudden, one day, I realised I had done a full days work and hadn’t stopped for a snooze. This carried on through the week and at the end of the week, I realised I hadn’t suffered from my morning drowsiness once that week 
The upshot is I look like I am going to have to spray steroids up me hooter for the rest of my life and I am still waiting to see if I will grow a second nose BUT I feel a lot safer on the roads now and only have a midday snooze because I have been up since silly o’clock. Plus I still have my licence.
So just because you have all the symptoms doesn’t mean you do have SA so it is worth having a chat with the jolly old quack first
Bumped for the sake of Old Man Coffee
TheBear:
Bumped for the sake of Old Man Coffee
I read it about 5 minutes after you posted it this morning.
Coffeeholic:
TheBear:
Bumped for the sake of Old Man Coffee
I read it about 5 minutes after you posted it this morning.
Smartass … I see you won the local derby again today
TheBear:
Coffeeholic:
TheBear:
Bumped for the sake of Old Man Coffee
I read it about 5 minutes after you posted it this morning.
Smartass … I see you won the local derby again today
Oh yes, ■■■■■■ as a cricklet as a result.
Coffeeholic:
Oh yes, ■■■■■■ as a cricklet as a result.
Is that like a baby grasshopper? 
Lucy:
Coffeeholic:
Oh yes, ■■■■■■ as a cricklet as a result.Is that like a baby grasshopper?
Exactly like. 
That was a deliberate typo BTW.
TheBear:
The doctor recalled I had had an operation several years ago to build me new nostrils. Mine had closed up due to breaking my nose many years ago and I hadn’t had it reset… let it heal naturally. Thus the bone in my nostrils had fused and they were pratically closed.
I’m guessing an Arthur Mullard Lookalike, am i right?