Talk:Cheyne–Stokes respiration

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Under causations: Narcotic overdose (can be added according to the Physicians Desk Reference 2005 under percocet and percodan overdoses pg 1246 Ronneff (talk) 06:24, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

A minor suggestion and a positive comment.
In the Associated Conditions section, the statement, if substantiated, about Cheyne-Stoking not causing distress in people who experienced it must be a big comfort to loved ones. I've always wondered about that myself. I added a Citation Needed flag.

That statement, however, about not causing distress would be better to appear in the Pathophysiology section or even the lede as it definitely applies to Cheyne-Stokes and not to Associated Conditions.

As a hospital RN, I can assure you that Cheyne-Stoking is not confined to Hospice observations. I've seen it myself many times in the hospital setting, generally during a client's last day of life. It is a truly ominous sign. (Note the verb usage of the term that is so common to hospital workers.)

I congratulate you all on a well-written article. The person coming to it for a quick definition and the one wanting to know about the underlying physiology will both be pleased. The illustrations are excellent. It reads very well, not in a piece-meal fashion as so many WP articles do after multiple contributors. Great job! Wordreader (talk) 19:08, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

As a recently diagnosed Cheyne-Stokes patient, I can absolutely assure you that diagnosis caused me great distress! I have no associated diseases except AFib, which does not cause me any distress or inability. When I review the literature (and the above comments) and I see that it is "associated with a client's last day of life" such is really distressing. My apneas fell from what is categorized as severe Cheyne-Stokes to very low normal in 6 nights of use of a BiPaP machine, but its use caused great loss of sleep. Perhaps that is a good way of stopping Cheyne-Stokes, just stop sleeping! Ha! Ha! Sorry about the misplaced humor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Georgeeby (talk • contribs) 22:05, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

What Can Cause Cheyne-Stokes In A Mostly Healthy Patient?
I've had this for four years, possibly it would explain the daily bouts of quite-severe fatigue I've had four fourteen years.

Last year I had three twelve-point Electrocardiograms, all normal.

HOWEVER! I've got an as-yet undiagnosed, quite mysterious Neurological Disorder. Most of the symptoms are the same as those of Stroke with the exception that I have normal muscle tone and symmetric motion ability. The most-severe symptoms are Broca's (Expressive) Aphasia in both my speech and my writing, potentially deadly short-term memory loss - deadly because I'm always setting my stove on fire -, severe dizziness as well as motion sickness that occurs even when rounding very gentle bends on the bus.

Two of the nurses at Vancouver Washington's PeaceHealth Southwest Emergency Room are getting Medical Board Complaints about them _today_: my Triage Nurse quite bluntly accused me of being a Hypochondriac; despite having arrived in an Ambulance she sent me out to the Waiting Room despite my quite severe Respiratory Distress. When she finally - reluctantly - led me to my ER room she was quite clearly pissed off, where my ER nurse was ACTIVELY COMBATIVE:

"Cheyne-Stokes only happens when you're about to die."

My Attending Physician was at first hostile but after I pointed out that C-S has several well-documented causes he consented to order a "Full Metabolic Panel" but did _not_: that Panel didn't test my Potassium nor any other metals, only Sodium, which was normal.

Just now upon re-reading this article I grew concerned that I might be continually exposed to a Neuro-Toxin. For me that's a _real_ possibility due to my Scientific Inquisitivism as well as the sketchy apartment building I live in, but if I am being poisoned, a blood test in the ER won't find it. 165.225.50.138 (talk) 15:40, 7 March 2019 (UTC) User_Talk:MichaelCrawford