tiredmumma
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Hi all
Our daughter will be 4 in June and starts school in September. We were recently told by our GP (when we thought she had tonsillitis for the third time in six months) that her tonsils are large, but that's not an issue.
Since then I have looked into this more myself. After four visits to the same GP who dismissed my belief she had a tongue tie as a baby - only for a loccum to agree with me and the hospital surgeon to state that she had a severe tongue tie, I never walk away without hours of my own research on these things!
Anyway, I read that large tonsils can cause sleep apnea. I honestly can't remember the last time she slept through without stirring and crying out all through the night. It starts not long after she falls asleep and continues until morning. Sometimes she goes right back to sleep and sometimes we have to go in to calm her. She never remembers why she woke up all she says is she wants to be asleep. She is a loud sleeper and my BIL commented on it at Christmas. She didn't have a cold at the time - she just sleeps like she's bunged up.
A few nights ago I filmed her over a few hours, for a minute at a time. In that minute she would pause her breathing at least once. This really scared me and kept me awake, listening to her do it on the monitor.
Other signs are that she is always tired, doesn't want to wake up or get out of bed in the morning (bed at 7 and up between 6.45 and 7 in the week for work) she has been napping again each day, for over an hour and we have to wake her and if we go anywhere in the car she is asleep in minutes. She is tired and grumpy all day. She has bursts of energy when she is our amazing girl again, funny and full of excitement. But she quickly returns to wanting to sit and do nothing.
She often has bags under her eyes and she can be pale. She goes to nursery for three hours a day and comes out nackered. She can't even manage the 5 minute school walk there and back each day without wanting to be carried. She does dancing class for 45 minutes on a Saturday morning. She loves it but will happily do nothing else for hours after.
She has been a thumb sucker since the minute she was born and this has increased since her first lot of tonsillitis in July to being not just around nap or bedtime to ALL the time.
She eats well and isn't all that fussy and she drinks plenty in the day so I don't think the energy is diet related.
I took her to the GP with my concerns (her tonsils score a 3 on the size chart - where 4 is them touching) and the above issues. He told me it's likely her adenoids but for most kids they shrink down by age 6. I spent 10 minutes in there showing videos of her sleeping (mouth open, everytime) and he eventually agreed to refer her to ENT at the local hospital.
He made me feel like a paranoid mother but I was right before and I don't want her to wait 2.5 years for a decent night's sleep! Has anyone else experienced the same and can tell me any success stories?
P.S we had a cancer scare with her in April due to MASSIVE glands in her neck and a x-Ray showing swollen lymph nods in her chest. So I know I am very sensitive about her glands, which have been swollen for weeks now.
Our daughter will be 4 in June and starts school in September. We were recently told by our GP (when we thought she had tonsillitis for the third time in six months) that her tonsils are large, but that's not an issue.
Since then I have looked into this more myself. After four visits to the same GP who dismissed my belief she had a tongue tie as a baby - only for a loccum to agree with me and the hospital surgeon to state that she had a severe tongue tie, I never walk away without hours of my own research on these things!
Anyway, I read that large tonsils can cause sleep apnea. I honestly can't remember the last time she slept through without stirring and crying out all through the night. It starts not long after she falls asleep and continues until morning. Sometimes she goes right back to sleep and sometimes we have to go in to calm her. She never remembers why she woke up all she says is she wants to be asleep. She is a loud sleeper and my BIL commented on it at Christmas. She didn't have a cold at the time - she just sleeps like she's bunged up.
A few nights ago I filmed her over a few hours, for a minute at a time. In that minute she would pause her breathing at least once. This really scared me and kept me awake, listening to her do it on the monitor.
Other signs are that she is always tired, doesn't want to wake up or get out of bed in the morning (bed at 7 and up between 6.45 and 7 in the week for work) she has been napping again each day, for over an hour and we have to wake her and if we go anywhere in the car she is asleep in minutes. She is tired and grumpy all day. She has bursts of energy when she is our amazing girl again, funny and full of excitement. But she quickly returns to wanting to sit and do nothing.
She often has bags under her eyes and she can be pale. She goes to nursery for three hours a day and comes out nackered. She can't even manage the 5 minute school walk there and back each day without wanting to be carried. She does dancing class for 45 minutes on a Saturday morning. She loves it but will happily do nothing else for hours after.
She has been a thumb sucker since the minute she was born and this has increased since her first lot of tonsillitis in July to being not just around nap or bedtime to ALL the time.
She eats well and isn't all that fussy and she drinks plenty in the day so I don't think the energy is diet related.
I took her to the GP with my concerns (her tonsils score a 3 on the size chart - where 4 is them touching) and the above issues. He told me it's likely her adenoids but for most kids they shrink down by age 6. I spent 10 minutes in there showing videos of her sleeping (mouth open, everytime) and he eventually agreed to refer her to ENT at the local hospital.
He made me feel like a paranoid mother but I was right before and I don't want her to wait 2.5 years for a decent night's sleep! Has anyone else experienced the same and can tell me any success stories?
P.S we had a cancer scare with her in April due to MASSIVE glands in her neck and a x-Ray showing swollen lymph nods in her chest. So I know I am very sensitive about her glands, which have been swollen for weeks now.