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.
Loud snoring punctuated by choking, according to an ex-girlfriend. I was not overweight at the time.
I remember being tired all the time and occasionally losing entire afternoons or evenings because I’d just zonk out on the couch, but then I’d jolt awake after a couple of hours, completely disoriented, and with my heart racing. I eventually figured out that I was bouncing in and out of REM3 sleep because things happening around me were bleeding into my dreams, which were also getting weirdly violent.
What finally triggered the “oh, shit, this is sleep apnea” realization was when I was recovering from surgery and my blood oxygen level would crash every time I fell asleep while not on oxygen. Tube up my nose? No problem. As soon as they took it out, though? I was fine until I started to doze, and then, like a jilted hair metal fan, my saturated O2 level would dive into the 80s. When I had my sleep study, they had me at about 45 apnea-hypopnea events per hour. I also remember being PISSED when they took the CPAP mask away at the end of the study, because that was the first time I’d had two consecutive hours of sleep presumably since I was in my early teens.
TL;DR: Yes, you need a sleep study. Get on your CPAP-pilled Rip Van Winklemaxxing arc ASAP.
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.
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.
