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Captain_Midnight · Post by **Captain_Midnight** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 11:11 pm

Diagnosed and initiated xpap therapy at age 57 (7 yrs ago).

LPN at pulmonologist's office told me what I suspected, that (due to airway architecture) I have had osa since childhood.

(Just completed my 6th half marathon race since diagnosis, btw).

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Ruinednose · Post by **Ruinednose** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 12:43 am

WAs diagnosed with moderate OSA when i was 21, lost a lot of weight and did a sleep study a year and a half later and no osa, got off the machine, now im 25 and have been diagnosed with UARS...on bipap

Ladyflower · Post by **Ladyflower** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 3:22 am

35. Funny how another poster mentioned snoring after having kids. My husband never mentioned anything about me snoring before I had my kids. I seem to have gotten worse since I had my youngest 3 years ago. I even started having occasional dreams of suffocating that would startle me awake in the last few years. My husband was tested and started his CPAP about 1 1/2 years ago and he told me he thought I should get tested too. Been using my ASV for just under a week now.

Country4ever · Post by **Country4ever** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 5:39 am

I think I had problems with sleep my whole life. But when I was going through menopause, it got horrible. Started on Cpap around age 57. I'm 64 now.

wut · Post by **wut** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 9:04 pm

Officially diagnosed with "mild UARS" without OSA in 1995, age 29, with a PES, -20. They didn't know much about treating UARS in 1995, and not sure they know much more about UARS today. Have had mild OSA diagnosis since 2003 (the next sleep study following the 1995 UARS diagnosis). OSA/UARS has not significantly improved with CPAP, APAP, and BiPAP & surgeries.

jencat824 · Post by **jencat824** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 9:36 pm

SleepyStar wrote:Diagnosed at 25, looking back at how I have slept and felt after naps and morning wakeups, I think this was a problem back in uni and quite possibly in high school. Couldn't tell you before that, between the OSA and the other stuff I think a squirrel has a better memory sometimes I would wake up having rolled out the bed nightly for quite some time though before my parents got me a queen sized bed in junior year of HS...anyone else have real active sleep like that pre-CPAP?

I had very, very active sleep before CPAP. Unless I was in my waterbed, I kicked my way out of bed usually straight out the foot of the bed. I also sleep walked & sleep ate too. The kicking & sleepwalking were life long problems. The sleep eating developed after my accident. I was diagnosed with severe OSA/CSA, RLS, PLMD, alpha-wave intrusion disorder & narcolepsy.

TheDuke · Post by **TheDuke** » Sun Mar 23, 2014 11:12 pm

I was age 57 when I was diagnosed and now approaching 84. In retrospect, I realize that I had the problem for a long, long time previous to diagnosis. Luckily, I didn't have much if any lasting damage to my body before being fitted for my first (Now antique) Healthdyne machine. I remain grateful to Dr. Devin Zimmerman for his insight and treatment back in the very infancy of CPAP treatment.

TheDuke

Joe_0206 · Post by **Joe_0206** » Sun Mar 23, 2014 11:36 pm

Therapist · Post by **Therapist** » Mon Mar 24, 2014 6:05 am

Ladyflower wrote:35. Funny how another poster mentioned snoring after having kids. My husband never mentioned anything about me snoring before I had my kids. I seem to have gotten worse since I had my youngest 3 years ago. I even started having occasional dreams of suffocating that would startle me awake in the last few years. My husband was tested and started his CPAP about 1 1/2 years ago and he told me he thought I should get tested too. Been using my ASV for just under a week now.

Sleep apnea is often worsened or brought on by pregnancy. It's the weight gain and hormonal change.

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Therapist · Post by **Therapist** » Mon Mar 24, 2014 6:08 am

bavinck wrote: Curious about typical age for onset

How old were you when diagnosed

I guess from the answers you now understand onset and diagnosis are two different subjects? The medical profession has been, and still is to a great degree, horribly negligent in diagnosing sleep disorders.

GregLH57 · Post by **GregLH57** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 8:15 am

I suspect I have had apnea for 15+ years but never connected the dots until I was diagnosed at age 54.

SleepyonMagnoliaSt · Post by **SleepyonMagnoliaSt** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 11:42 am

Daughter was diagnosed at 4 months and then diagnosed again at 7 1/2

deerslayer · Post by **deerslayer** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 4:37 pm

way late to the party....was 61 & full of denile....better late as they say ...being diagnosed ~best thing next to my second wife of now 35 years
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