Family Doctor not in till next week for needed referral but have, I believe the start of something medical and first wish to find out if this is something others with Sleep Apnea have also had, or not at all. OR if a common potential aging symptom?
I will be seeing another doctor, ENT, no doubt but until then, today just curious.
As a former smoker, I am aware of the possibilities of Throat Cancer, COPD, quite clearly so let me rule out those here in as such as there is no need to speculate on those. That can only be seen by a doctor. And I am aware of possibilities.
Wonder if any others will recognize my symptoms.
No need to suggest i see a doctor, etc. That's a given..(maybe today if i can but unlikely)
Sleep on back due to vertigo if i sleep on one side.
Done this about 5 years from first episode. On back, no vertigo episodes but also could have been the reason initially diagnosed with Severe Apnea.
Using my mask, I am fine, often Zero at night...as I was last night, as my chart will show.
Noticed 1 year ago, I was more comfy using one pillow only. Two I almost felt restricted my throat a bit. Bends head down, etc.
6 months ago, perhaps, I felt it slightly constricted. Understand I am highly in tune to my body and when I say restricted, others likely might not have noticed it in themselves.
Thought i might be fighting start of a cold but when I do, all my life, i fight them off and gone next morning, as this *feeling* was
But that night I instinctively slept diagonally, pushed pillow out of way and had top half of my head leaning over bed....as if to ensure throat was stretched out straight. Slept fine.
So subtle it might have happened 1-2x since but if so, so subtle i am not sure.
Last week I noticed it again, but also noticed it shortly after waking, sitting in a chair, bad posture throat sitting towards chest---but not unusual position for life before now.
Went away. Sort of had it at back of my mind and would speak to doctor next week while there for other things. There but not serious, I felt.
This morning before waking, I had a dream. Sitting in a box and someone fell in on top of me and i started to suffocate (in my dream) but woke up with a start. Not sure why. I potentially was not breathing and *kicked* awake?
As a mouth breather, occasionally I rarely but have awakened up with my lips sort of stuck together (sounds awful, mouth breathers might understand description)....this morning, that was the case..but even now 2 hours later, I am aware of something very slight.
Again, very subtle. Could be something as slight as a scratch on the throat. I don't get the idea there is a lump or that anything is constricted, but that just, I am aware that something is different.
Slight new food allergy?
1) I have heard of people having a flap of some sort removed, although i have also heard it was not often successful. Am curious if such people recognize what I am experiencing. If so, related perhaps?
2) potentially something that one experiences as they age and likely not anything? (will be seeing doctor regardless-will have tube up nose, down throat to see but until then )
Posting here only to find out if this is a *flap* related issue since i don't really know what that flap is I have heard of....but this comes to mind. No where better to ask than those with that....
If no responses are forthcoming I shall presume no one has had this.........therefore not at all related to Sleep Apnea.
Last. Will post last night's chart. I am not an expert, far from it of reading them. I in my inexperience, don't see any sign of *hits* even moments before I woke up.
See *marks* in flow rate and mask pressure only.
Would I not have had *hits* on this if I had indeed stopped breathing, long enough to shake me awake?
T.I.A....(sorry, can't express all in 2 sentences)
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1 large event = conking out before had time to turn off TV i never watched at at event, woke up responding to video of sounds/France, etc....Got up, back to bed 10 min later