Obstructive Sleep Apnea - 66-Male

Dear Forum Members,

My father has been diagnosed with Severe OSA and I am looking for a remedy through Homeopathy , I will be grateful if someone could assist me. Here are some of the details which might be helpful for best possible medicine:


Gender: Male
Age: 66
Body Type: Heavy/Bulky
Height: 6 feet
Weight: 104 KG
General appearance: Normal
Have you used homeopathic medicines before? If so what, and what homeopathic potencies did you use?

Never

Please answer the following questions in a descriptive manner after careful analysis and recollection of previous experiences and happenings.

1. Describe your main suffering? Sleep Apnea , During day feel very sleepy, have depressing dull feeling , loud snoring , seems as if there is lack of air to breathe sometime in night while sleeping , lack of concentration, memory loss

2. What other physical sufferings do you have in your body? Had a revision HIP surgery in 2013 and THR in 2007

3. What mental sufferings / feelings do you have associated with your physical sufferings? Depression, lack of concentration ,

4. What exactly do you feel when you are at your worst? Describe the sensation in your own words.

Sleep Apnea , During day feel very sleepy, have depressing dull feeling , loud snoring , seems as if there is lack of air to breathe sometime in night while sleeping , lack of concentration, memory loss

5. When did it all start? Can you connect it to any past event or disease?

May be more than 5 years as I started to gain weight due to lack of physical activity due to Hip surgery

6. Which time of the day you are worst?
Night – Snoring

7. What are the things which aggravate your suffering and which are those which ameliorate the same? Example- Over eating , tension


8. Do your think your sufferings have relation to any external stimuli (like, change of place) or any internal biological changes in the body, like, menses (in females)?
May be due to increase in weight from 80 to 100 in 3 years

9. When do you feel better, during hot weather or cold weather, humid or dry weather?
During summers

10. Describe your general mental set up? Are you Moody, Arrogant, Mild, Agreeable Changeable, Nervous, Suspicious, Easily offended, Quiet, Arguing, Irritating, Lazy etc.
I see wild and violent dreams during night , very short tempered.

- How do you feel before or during a thunderstorm?
Can’t say

- Do you like being consoled during your tough times? Yes
- Are you sensitive to external stimuli like smell, noise, light etc? Not much

- Do you have any typical habit or gesture like nail biting, causeless
Weeping, talking to one self etc? Weeping during sleeping while dreaming maybe.

- How do you feel about your friends, family, your children and especially your husband / wife?
I am worried about my children due to financial difficulty

11. What are your fears and do you dream of any situation repeatedly?
Yes. I see violent dreams like slapping someone in dream


12. What do you crave for in food items and what are your aversions?
I like sweets and desserts , meat and I dislike none

13. How is your thirst: Less, Normal or Excessive?
Excessive

14. How is your hunger: Less, Normal or Excessive?
Excessive

15. Is there any kind of food which your body can’t stand?
None

16. Is your sweat normal or less or more? Where does it sweat more: Head, Trunk or Limbs?
I sweat (normally) in summers , not in winters

17. How is your bowel movement and stool type?
Normal

18. How well do you sleep? Do you have a particular posture of sleeping?
I sleep well but my partner says I snore a lot.



20. Do you have any strange, peculiar or unusual symptom or feelings? How are you different from others?
Cant say

21. What medications have been taken earlier by you to treat the diseases and do you have any particular symptom surfacing after the medication?
Blood pressure and depression medicine (escilitopram , amlopress AT)

22. What major diseases are running in your family?
My wife has Type 2 diabetes , my grandfather and my first uncles a couple of them suffered heart attacks.



I will be really grateful to the Homeopaths here if they can help my father with this problem.