Catherine K

Buick Regal 1998 V6 - intake exploded on start...manifold and cover shattered and holes blown through. Google search shows this is not uncommon on this engine, but cannot find any reason why...Any Mechanics out there who may have an answer?

Thank you!

I quit smoking 2/21/08. I used Chantix for 6 weeks so I did not have withdrawls and the quitting itself was not bad.

However, I did begin to experience severe debilitating depression and fatigue. I educated myself enough to know that this was a "normal" response to the lower production of dopamine in the brain.

However, the depression got so bad that I was missing some time from work every single week, crying all the time and some suicidal thoughts.

I have begun smoking again...5-6 cigarettes per day, and all of those symptoms are gone now. I hope to quit again and will go on an anti-depressant. Probably during Christmas when I have extra time off from work so I can adjust to the side effects.

What I want to know is if others have had this kind of experience and what you did about it.

I smoked for 27 years.

Recently diagnosed with mild sleep apnea. I woke up 113 times. A CPAP was recommended.

The lack of sleep has had left me depressed, fatigued constantly, severe body aches at times, irritable and have gained 35 pounds.

My question is whether anyone was in a similar situation with the mild apnea and the troublesome symptoms, and whether CPAP helped you.

I will have to pay several hundred dollars out of pocket, and wonder, given the diagnosis of "mild", is it worth the financial investment?

It has been eight months, now very depressed, I think it is the low dopamine, which has been a problem from the beginning but progressively worse. Have gained 35 lbs. I am exercising, trying to control diet, feel terrible. Why and when will it get better.