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Has anyone here been tested for sleep apnea?

On the heels of Smith's Sleep Paralysis thread, I thought I'd ask.

Google says CT-Scott or someone quoted by CT-Scott wrote

Is this perhaps a side-effect of me drinking in the evening and having sleep apnea?

in the GME thread, but I gave up trying to find it.

I did the at-home sleep apnea test a couple of years ago and was assessed as being a moderate sufferer. I was always tired during the daytime and needed to nap in the afternoon. Sometimes I'd even need to nap twice.

Since hiring my trainer my need to nap in the middle of the day has largely disappeared. I can't exactly say why, but I have a theory. I've heard from varying sources that carrying extra body fat can cause or exacerbate sleep apnea. The fatty tissues act as an extra source of possible obstruction when breathing.

Since hiring her I've lost some 23 pounds, and that has coincided with the tiredness disappearing. I suspect that the apparently moderate sleep apnea I was suffering has probably subsided due to the weight loss.

I'm sure WiseOne would know much more.

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 3:44 pm ...moderate sufferer...
... extra body fat ..

That corroborates what my cousin told me. He got snore surgery many years ago but the snoring resumed when he gained weight.

Did you have electrodes and all kinds of weird stuff strapped to you, or just the fingertip thing?

dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 3:52 pm
Did you have electrodes and all kinds of weird stuff strapped to you, or just the fingertip thing?

I had the fingertip thing, the chest thing, and the tubes leading to the nose. The overall contraption was one of these dohickeys.



I always thought my tiredness was probably the result of something more exotic. Like, I dunno, ebola or something. Occam's razor though, I guess.

I think this really communicates how every area of your life affects every other area of your life: can't sleep; grades suffer; drop out of school; can't get a good job; spend the rest of your life twirling that sign in front of Domino's Pizza.

Since I had covid my body won’t sleep more than two hours without being woken up by my own body .

I Was at the pulmonary/ sleep disorder center at the hospital where we were today for a check up .

They believe my reduced lung capacity at the moment from covid is triggering my body to wake me when it sees things coming down to much as sleep gets deeper and deeper .

They are waiting for Medicare approval to give me a monitor for two nights

mathjak107 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 4:04 pm Since I had covid my body won’t sleep more than two hours without being woken up by my own body .

I Was at the pulmonary/ sleep disorder center at the hospital where we were today for a check up .

They believe my reduced lung capacity at the moment from covid is triggering my body to wake me when it sees things coming down to much as sleep gets deeper and deeper .

They are waiting for Medicare approval to give me a monitor for two nights

Can you just pay to rent one for two nights? Why depend on the government for good sleep?

Medicare will approve it so there is no reason to rent it..they just have to submit.there is a lot more that goes with those monitors , like the whole process of the doctor working with , evaluating and deciding on a course of action that ties in to that approval .

Everything with Medicare except doctors takes an approval which is no problem ...but that is not true when you have an advantage plan for your Medicare and have a for profit insurer as your gate keeper.

Unless money was an obstacle I would never take an advantage plan over not for profit govt administered Medicare and a supplement.

Having a for profit insurer as your Medicare administrator does not always work out the same way

Mark's recipe for curing all sleep disorders:

1) Get your weight down. Lean and strong.

2) Do something hard and physical for a good part of the day.

3) When it gets near sunset, eat a steak and quaff some wine.

4) Have sex.

5) Sleep the sleep of the damned.

4) Uh oh, what about those of us who are married?

dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 8:05 pm 4) Uh oh, what about those of us who are married?

lol

Mark Leavy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 7:50 pm
5) Sleep the sleep of the damned.

Explain please?

Cortopassi wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 11:09 pm

Mark Leavy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 7:50 pm
5) Sleep the sleep of the damned.

Explain please?

I think he just means to say that you'll sleep well after doing all the above.

dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 8:05 pm 4) Uh oh, what about those of us who are married?

He didn’t say anything about needing a partner. Ha ha

Alas, I promised that neck fat to my cat when I die.

Well, I have a remote appointment with a doctor to discuss my test results later this month. I don’t know which is better- finding out I have apnea and can tackle it, perhaps with a CPAP machine, or finding out I don’t, but then still experiencing tiredness.

When I was in the hospital every time I would doze off my pulse rate dropped below 50 and not only would the brain jolt me but the lower limit of their monitors would beep ...finally they reset them lower once they saw that a low pulse was pretty normal for me .

But coupled with covid the brain went in to an alert and would wake me each time

dualstow, do you carry any extra body weight? As others have mentioned, that can be the cause of sleep apnea. I don't suffer from it myself (I have myriad other sleep issues which are not solved by Mark's easy five-step program), but I do know someone who only gets sleep apnea when his weight goes above 185. What is striking in his case is that he's not actually carrying a LOT of fat. He's 6' tall and should probably weigh around 175. For him it's no issues at 182lbs and sleep apnea at 188lbs. So, at least in some cases, the cure is to get moving and keep the weight off (not trying to call you a fat ass!).

Back to Mark's list... it's only a matter of time until we have a thread discussing what is the right time of day to have sex.

barrett wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 8:29 am dualstow, do you carry any extra body weight?
.. I do know someone who only gets sleep apnea when his weight goes above 185. What is striking in his case is that he's not actually carrying a LOT of fat. He's 6' tall and should probably weigh around 175.
...

I have a beer gut these days. I'm close to 6ft and don't have a scale in the house but at some point my usual weight at the doctors moved from 150 (college) to 170. As far as inches go, my belly is bigger than it's ever been. Thanks, lockdown. Ok, and laziness and banana bread. So who knows, maybe I've hit 180 without realizing it.

The rest of my body is mesomorph.