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HI DAvid. Your stoppage of breathing is probably Sleep Apnea. If like many PWP you sleep on your back it can be aggravated or triggered. As others have said contact your local MD as soon as possible and have him consider sleep studies in a sleep laboratory. This can measure whether during the episodes you blood oxygen saturation drops to dangerous levels and when it happens. Often the cause is folds of tissue in the airway especially if you are overweight. It can be treated in various ways and should have medical attention.\\ Good luck Charlie Charlie At 02:33 AM 7/27/00 -0700, you wrote: >Hi friends, > >Time to "pick the collective brain" again. 3 or 4 times this last few weeks >I have woke up choking. Then I have a very difficult time breathing. My >former doctor gave me inhalers for asthma, but they have no effect. It >occasionally happens when I am awake too. > >I know that I do not swallow as much automatically as before, could this be >the cause? I am seeing my gp today. I limit what I want to talk about, so >I have not brought it up before. > >What do you think? > >David Meigs aka: Pappy >43/dx ?/onset ??? >[log in to unmask]