Hi there,

Anyone on the board here have been diagnosed with sleep apnea?

I am trying to learn more and more about it!

More of expeirences then facts, I have read a lot about it, but would like to hear the experience of someone who has it.

I have questions like:

How many times total did you stop breathing during the test?

How many times in 1 hour?

How far did your blood ox level drop?

What device are you using??

Any experiences like that would be really helpful!

Thank you!

Baileym

If you have sleep apnea you MUST get help. As someone who does NOT have it but is married to someone who has SEVERE CHRONIC sleap apnea I can tell you treatment is NOT an OPTION but a necessity. My husband resisted getting a sleap study for 2 years until I set it all up. During those two years he was literally a dead man walking. He would be irritated all the time, fell asleap whenever we sat at a meal - even at other peoples house - snap at the kids, if I was not able to drive him it would take him 5 hours to make a one hour trip because he would stop at every rest stop to nap. His ability to work was comromised because he was so forgetfull. I can go on and on but I think you get the idea. At the sleep study, they said he woke up 187 times in ONE hour. The following week he went back to have a study using a machine - so they can figure out what the machine settings should be - when he came home the following morning he said he felt like a new person. Since he has the machine I have become like a policewoman making sure he uses it every night because there is no way I want him to go back to being the tired unhappy person he was. It is so nice to have him back. When I think back to those two years I realize how much he missed out on as well as our family. GOOD LUCK and I hope you get some sleep soon!!!