Sleep Apnea--comments?

[learnteach]

Sleep apnea--last night, the third person in recent times asked me if I had gone and checked for sleep apnea.  Sigh.  Time to stop being a martyr and go fight the system to see a doctor.  Of course, the fact that I'm waking up several times a night to urinate (when I don't need to urinate as much during the day), the spells of sleepyness and irritability (which I attribute to school based depression) and the excess weight I have and lack of exercise, combined with the fact that one of my brothers has a CPAP for his apnea...hmm.

Any help/notes any of my friends can give me?

Comments

[marysdress.livejournal.com]

Michael resisted and hated adjusting to the machine and now it's changed his world - and changed my ability to sleep as well. He only somewhat met the checklist, but boy did the sleep study confirm he had it.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

It was irrational, but I felt I needed to poke my hubby regularly to make him breathe. Plus, every time he did the micro-waking, he'd jump as if he were startled. That was definitely restful. Not!