I would like to share my experience with you.
I'm a 38 years old male.
I've been overweight since my childhood. Around my 25 I realized that people start to complain about my snoring. With my age It got worse and affected the quality of sleep. However it was not that big issue till Covid 19 came!
I got Covid and laid down without doing nothing but eating! As an overweight person I became obese as putting on 20 kg. plus in several months with that performance...With that my nights started to become nightmare! I couldn't manage to sleep on my sides at first, only position was just on my tummy with insane upper back pain, with drooling, turning round and round to get oxygen enough. That caused even eyelid problem at me. My eyelids (mostly left) didn't functioned well and my eyes were in terrible condition for more than a year. After those terrible days, maybe similar to you, my wife helped me. She realized that I was dying in the nights, shaking my legs, stop breathing, choking etc. My days were like hell. I am a banker and the workplace is so stressful and busy. my days were like hell, I was always feel sleepy, tired, anxious and irritable. At the end, I finally accepted to go to the Doctor with accepting the situation.
As a result of my tests, I had 103 AHI score which was great!
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Although I feel amazing about my treatment, I have a big problem. I experienced the same problem when I started to sleep on my stomach and now I have the same upper back pain again. I sleep so deep that I don't change my position in the night. When I start to sleep on my left side, I wake up on my left side without any move. And when I wake up, I can't tell you how terrible pain on my upper back and chest area. I guess with that much fat, it is hard to maintain the same position for that long for my body! After 3-4 hours the pain disappears in the day. But in the night it doesn't not let me sleep back an I finally wake up too early after 6,6-7 hours of sleep.
So now I feel just sorry for my almost 2 years without accepting my apnea and not getting treatment.
Regards.