Re: slurred speech and ketone breath

Hi, I'm hoping you still check this thread, it looks like it has been 4 years since you were on here last. I wanted to let you know that my husband is suffering from the same type of symptoms and I think we may have found the reason for all his troubles. He too gets confused, slurred speech, acts drunk, and has ketone breath. We thought it was due to an overabundance of stress, we adopted a little 2 year old boy in Jan, then in Feb my husband was laid off from his company that he'd worked for for 11 years, my daughter has behavior issues and we found we had uninvited pests living in our home. So along with all that my Mother in Law has been moved into a nursing home. This is a lot for a young many of 36 years to deal with in less than 2 months! So we thought that his brain was just simply overloaded. And it is, but not with JUST stress, he has too much carbon dioxide in his blood which has changed the pH of his blood enough to cause metabolic acidosis. The long and short of it is that my husband has sleep apnea (ie; snoring, gasping for breath in his sleep, long pauses between breaths, ect...) and he is unable to clear out the carbon dioxide from his blood. He has had two sleep studies and should be getting his Cpap machine this week. Many prayers that this cures his symptoms! Will let you know if this takes care of the problem.