"OCF Down Under" "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) Joined: May 2010 Posts: 638 | terrib goodness yes!! Alex was not a snorer BC (except when he partook of a few too many drinks) so this was quite unnerving.
I would lie awake at night trying to characterise what was going on so I could tell the doctor. I remember counting the number of breaths before he stopped all together. His chest would sort of hiccup when he wasn't breathing just before a big noisy gasp which would start the cycle all over again. On the nights I paid attention, it was 4 breaths then a "non breath/gasp" followed by another 4 breaths. This went on for about 20 minutes and then it went to 5 breaths before the "non breath/gasp" for about 15, then 6 breaths and so on. I often fell asleep myself whilst listening to him but I also began giving him an hour or two in bed by himself by which time it had settled down.
Then one day I realised it had stopped. He doesn't do it anymore. Trying to remember when it stopped... I remember counting his breaths in October, 2 months out of treatment to tell the doctor in November. By the February check up there was nothing to report so it stopped somewhere between 3 and 6 months from the end of treatment.
Karen Love of Life to Alex T4N2M0 SCC Tonsil, BOT, R lymph nodes Dx March 2010 51yrs. Unresectable. HPV+ve Tx Chemo x 3+1 cycles(cisplatin,docetaxel,5FU)- complete May 31 Chemoradiation (IMRTx35 + weekly cisplatin) Finish Aug 27 Return to work 2 years on 3 years out Aug 27 2013 NED  Still underweight
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