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What were your first symptoms of sleep apnea?
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SallyAllen
I was very sleepy during the day and it started to affect my work. I did snore, but the biggest red flag was when we were on a road trip and whenever I drove, I fell asleep at the wheel. My husband insisted I see a sleep spe. During the sleep study, I stopped breathing 49 times an hour!! It took 3 onsite sleep studies to get the cpap machine adjusted.
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LizziB
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Hi @sleepingbeast
How are you doing today?
You've come to the right place to ask our members about their journey into being diagnosed with sleep apnea. We have a great community here that can share their stories.
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What were your first symptoms? Did you go to your GP or did you need a specialist? Did you take a sleep test? What other factors were give aways to your Sleep Apnea?
Let's share for @sleepingbeast !
Take care,
Lizzi from the Carenity team
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LizziB
Mysti1
I snored and was super tired all the time. I was starting to get a super bad memory, so much so that so that I thought it was early Dementia. The last straw was when started to stutter and had problems talking. I kept going to the doctor that they kept saying my bloodwork was normal and nothing was wrong.
During one of my countless doctors visits, a resident noticed my neck was large. Then the resident asked if I’d been checked for sleep apnea. So, a sleep study was ordered. I got tested and found out that I have severe obstructive sleep apnea.
SallyAllen
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I was very sleepy during the day and it started to affect my work. I did snore, but the biggest red flag was when we were on a road trip and whenever I drove, I fell asleep at the wheel. My husband insisted I see a sleep spe. During the sleep study, I stopped breathing 49 times an hour!! It took 3 onsite sleep studies to get the cpap machine adjusted.
lvirgilio
Definitely you should see a sleep doctor.
I was falling asleep in my car driving to work EVERY DAY.
Had a sleep study, walked out with my first CPAP. Just like going to a convention.
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Linda Virgilio
lvirgilio
I fell asleep at the wheel every morning on my way to work. The day after my sleep study, they sent me in to the sleepstudy office and would not let me leave until they found a provider for CPAP
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Linda Virgilio
Cantsleep1
I looked and felt very run down, very low energy, at times my respiratory symptoms were mistaken for worsening depression.
I am on BiPAP which has been working for sometime.
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sleepingbeast
So I think I might have sleep apnea, but how can you tell?
I am tired all the time. I snore, not all the time, but if I have A beer, then I snore REALLY LOUDLY and my partner will roll me over to make it stop. I wasn't always like this, it's gotten worse over the years. Could someone help me out?
What symptoms did you have? How do you start the process to find out if you have it?
thanks