What led you to your diagnosis of apnea?

My dad's snoring would rattle the windows.
We could hear him fighting to breathe across the house.
Nobody knew about apnea then.
He died at the age of 50, 'massive heart attack'.

chunkyfrog wrote:My dad's snoring would rattle the windows.
We could hear him fighting to breathe across the house.
Nobody knew about apnea then.
He died at the age of 50, 'massive heart attack'.

Oh yea. I neglected to list this in my reasons but same exact loss and circumstances here except for my father was 56 when he passed.

Like so many others here, its all my wife's fault...

About 18 years ago, my doctor mentioned that my blood pressure was up, and that I should consider going on medication. The next year, my BP was up to the 185/100 range and it was no longer an option. I started feeling tired all the time, and we just chalked it up to the BP meds, as it was one of the stated side effects. Over the years, different doctors changed my BP meds from time to time, and life went on. With the last change, I started getting up four or five times a night to go to the bathroom, which the doctor again said was a stated side effect of the meds.

My wife and scheduled our annual physicals back to back, and went over the whole history and also told him that I stopped breathing in my sleep. I told them that it was because I was dreaming about snorkeling, but they wouldn't buy it, so a sleep study was set up. I didn't feel like I had slept at all, but he said that the results showed that I slept about 80% of the time, and during my sleep I had averaged 62 episodes per hour and my oxygen level dropped to 60. (is that bad?)

Anyway, my second study is next week, and the doctor has already said that in a case this severe, an oral appliance or surgery is not an option. He says I definitely need CPAP.

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