I feel like i can get 8-10 hours of sleep and still need a nap during the day.
I’ve also been told I snore like a freight train by many an ex…
I always thought I was too skinny/ in shape for sleep apnea, but we shall see.
Probably going to ask about a sleep study at my local health clinic
My first symptom was my partner telling me I stopped breathing. I have never been overweight, but I was a heavy smoker and that’s a huge risk factor.
After quitting smoking and cutting back from heavy drinking to extremely light drinking, it’s only a problem if I sleep on my back, which is generally uncomfortable for me anyway.
The first symptoms were snoring, then needing naps, and then eventually losing evenings because I was so out of it.
Weight isn’t everything when it comes to sleep apnea. I have a friend who is skinny as a twig and runs marathons, but she has terrible apnea without her cpap.
Go get yourself tested, untreated apnea will damage your heart and can kill you.
Always snored a lot. But my partner told me how I stopped breathing a lot. And also, just how loud and hard it was for her to sleep with all the ruckus going on.
I was tired every day also, despite feeling like I always got a good amount of sleep like you said, 8-10 hours a day but still needing a nap and ungodly amounts of coffee.
I had gained some weight at that time which I think made it worse, but I also think I always have had it. I tested at 66 AHI which is severe.
If you can get a sleep study do it! Also, if you end up getting the diagnosis and you are in US, just a heads up that you don’t need to use the DME provider that the clinic recommends. You can take the prescription elsewhere or just buy a CPAP out of pocket. My insurance was gonna make me pay $600 out of pocket to the DME, but I ended up buying my own CPAP for $800 and it was the exact model I wanted, brand new, and I never had to worry about compliance. A lot of the DME providers are garbage and the whole industry is partially a scam in the US
Be sure to download OSCAR to check how your breathing is doing as well. Some vendors won’t even require prescriptions or overlook shoddy ones. You won’t get arrested so it’s not really a risk.
One of the reasons I went with my own was to make sure I could use OSCAR. They weren’t even telling me what model I was going to get. I was able to get a brand new Airsense 10 that has worked like a charm. I haven’t checked my stats in a while but in general I am getting 2-3 AHI and sleeping a solid 8 hrs
Just got diagnosed this week actually. Come to find out - TMJ was the first symptom that actually causes my obstructive apnea. But all my dentists ever said was there was nothing I could do about my jaw pain and popping. Shitty sleep is another one. I don’t snore much at all either because I’m a side sleeper.
My partner is a naturally very skinny dude who unknowignly had severe sleep apnea for years without doctors or anyone even considering it. He had to suffer a severe burnout and get fired from a nursing job before it got diagnosed. He had 42 breaks in his breathing every hour on average, so not even 2 minutes of continuos sleep basically ever.
So yes, get a sleep study if you can.
Does he gave a bit of an overbite? I have a small overbite that I think is blocking my airway when I sleep, it’s that or either my larger than normal Uvola is causing it.
No overbite but has had pretty severe teeth grinding while sleeping which is related. And all this is related to stress as well. Likely getting a late diagnosis of adhd soon as well.
His doctor explained his tongue relaxes so fully it blocks the airway.
Yeah us skinny-average weight dudes usually have like tounge or jaw or teeth problems when we have apnea.
In my case I think it’s my slight overbite is causing my lower jaw to slide to far back when I’m sleeping and blocking my airway
Best of luck to him. I know how hell adhd can be as well.
