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by BlizzardUK » Tue Aug 18, 2015 5:05 pm
Sorry for the message, I seemed a bit desperate there, just was shocked when I saw it say 49%, after hearing other apnea sufferers saying their doctors told them it was bad at 70%.
I am going to see my doc, but in the UK things take a long time, so I bought the finger pulse test to try and jump the queue and not need a night study which can take 6 months to come through. I wanted to collate a weeks worth of data first. The reason I didn't see a doc earlier. after feeling symptoms for many months, is because I have suffered with this before and lost 5 stone and felt better again. I was hoping to lose enough weight to not need a machine, but the lack of energy this time is making it hard to do anything. I think this time I have put on so much weight that the apnea is controlling me rather than the other way around before. Now I can't sit in a seat without falling asleep, before I could cope as long as concentrated. I can't drive now either as within 15 minutes I need to pull over and nap for 10 minutes.
My main day symptoms are.......
I feel like a walking zombie, my eyes burn, I can't play video games as I either fall asleep in the chair or my concentration doesn't allow me. I find it hard to watch a movie and not rewind many times due to missing things. If I lie in bed with a mobile or tablet device to use it often falls out of my hand on the floor within 5 minutes of lying down. I have no interest in sex when this time last year I was really high on libido. I sleep through 2 alarms. I wake up with a headache and have black zigzag lines in my eyesight. I sit on the edge of the bed to get up but often drift off. I sit in my armchair to eat breakfast and read the paper, I am asleep by page 4 of the paper. I eat my main meal and am asleep if I try and read the paper after. I need to pee twice a night, and if I nap in the evening I wake up urgently to pee, even if just been 30 minutes asleep and been to the toilet soon before. My brother in law, who also has sleep apnea, tried to wake me up the other day as I fell to sleep during the afternoon, he said he couldn't wake me and when I did wake up I supposedly stared at him wide red eyed while still asleep, it took me a minute to realise what was happening and be fully conscious. That was a very strange experience.
As mentioned, my brother in law has sleep apnea and a CPAP, so he has been pressuring me to get one. I would buy one straight away if we didn't have to get a prescription here in the UK.
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