Posted: 6/5/2012 1:56:43 PM EDT
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General Questions
cause I see a large amount of people here have it. 1. How did you find out about it? 2. What were the symptoms? 3. Did you guys lose your ability to focus and concentrate? 4. Did you go to a specialist or just your PCP? Just generally tell me how you found out you have it, not the diagnosis, but prior. |
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Snoring is usually an indicator, not always, though.
If you can sleep 12 hours, and then get in bed and do it again, that's a sign. Excessive napping, accidents, asleep at the wheel, etc are likely symptoms. If you think your sleep is fucked up, talk to your primary. He might send you to a pulmonologist, or he might just prescribe a study. Depends on the Dr. |
| Cardiologist started asking questions about taking naps and falling asleep. He was concerned and sent me to a sleep lab. Turned out a good friend worked there and in the morning he told me OMG you got here in the nick of time. I stopped breathing I think 47 times an hour. It has been more than a year on CPAP and it is still uncomfortable but it is worth it |
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Snoring
Spouse says you stop breathing. Feel tired. Morning headaches. General shitty outlook on life. Hard to lose weight. Hard to get motivated. Read This Thread . |
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General Questions cause I see a large amount of people here have it. 1. How did you find out about it? 2. What were the symptoms? 3. Did you guys lose your ability to focus and concentrate? 4. Did you go to a specialist or just your PCP? Just generally tell me how you found out you have it, not the diagnosis, but prior. Snoring so loud wife was going to move to another room. Felt more tired in the a.m. after sleeping. Tired at work in mid afternoon. PCP scheduled sleep study with specialist. Quit breathing 120 times in first hour of study. Now use CPAP and sleep like a baby. You can not wake up from condition, then they play the sad music and do the slow walk. I'm glad I had study done. |
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1. Sleep studies prescribed by PCP
2. Horrendous snoring, catching myself not breathing as I fell asleep, tired all the time, wanting to nap all the time, no energy, depressed feeling, sore throat in morning. 3. Absolutely 4. See number 1 Get yourself check and on the road to treatment if you can, you'll be a new person. FWIW I have a four page thread going about it on here somewhere and a lot of the posters provided me some great info in it |
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Is there any way to surgically correct this? The CPAP machine doesn't sound like a long term solution... Most people with sleep apnea are obese (not all). If they get down to a normal weight, they will usually get a lot better. Tough to exercise and diet when you are already tired all the time, though. |
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I had almost all of the symptoms described. I was tired all of the time. I would get to work at 6:45a, and take a mini nap at 830AM. I'd also take one after lunch.
I snored so loud that anyone in the house would hear me. We went deer hunting and stayed at a camp that was a brick house. With my bedroom door closed, the others sleeping on the other side of the house heard me. Dizzy, light-headed all day. Ringing in my ears. Low motivation. Depressed all the time, no energy, sore throat for YEARS. I had the tonsillectomy about a yr before the sleep study (at 38yo) and it didn't help. My MD said that my palate is too low, almost even with the base of my teeth, which makes apnea worse. I was NOT overweight. My apnea was severe too, I think pressures around 14 and 18. Somthing like that. I use a Bipap which gives u more pressure going in and backs off when you exhale. It took a little getting used to, but I wear it EVERY night. Currently my head straps give me problems, coming undone, and I can tell the next am right away if I slept long without it. If you think you need it, then you probably do. If you do need it, it will change your life. |
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Chronic snorer.
Wife would tell me I scared her during the night gasping and snorting for air. Would flil and hit her during sleep. Tired all day. Could fall asleep in 2 minutes sitting in a chair The real kicker for me was skull busting headaches upon awakening that would disappear after 2 minutes after waking up. Literally head in your hands bent over skull crushers. No asprin or anything - they would mysteriously disappear in a minute or 2 upon waking up. Turns out they were extremely low oxygen saturation in my blood from lack of breathing. My first somnonnogram sleep study revealed dangerously low O2 sat. - like 60% or something. Listen to your SO. They are a good indicator... |
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Snoring Spouse says you stop breathing. Feel tired. Morning headaches. General shitty outlook on life. Hard to lose weight. Hard to get motivated. Read This Thread . Yep go get checked |
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Wife tells me I stop breathing when I sleep.
Waking up gasping for air. Constantly falling asleep behind the wheel. Headaches Sometimes calling in sick for work and sleeping all day even after a full nights sleep. I drive 40 miles to work every day. Getting checked for apnea probably saved my life. I used to nod off after a 10 or so miles, now I only get tired behind the wheel when I don't use my cpap. |
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Quoted: These for me. Just had a study done Sunday night. Snoring Spouse says you stop breathing. Feel tired. Morning headaches. General shitty outlook on life. Hard to lose weight. Hard to get motivated. Read This Thread .  |