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Since 1988 my philosophy of life has been:
cycling is life, the rest is just details.

When did you notice that is was hard to stay active and how long before they diagnosed you with sleep apnea? Or did you just keep going through it all?

I was undiagnosed for about 3 months with notable tiredness but am back to 100 miles a week commute on my cyclocross bike. I only stop that if the temperature goes above 115 degrees or my AHI goes above 15

raggedykat wrote: When did you notice that is was hard to stay active and how long before they diagnosed you with sleep apnea? Or did you just keep going through it all?

It became hard in, I think '92, when I had pancreatitis.
It weakened my body so bad, I just never seemed to recover my endurance.
I think that is when my body could no longer over come the effects of
the OSA. It just got worse. I would injure myself and it took forever
to heal. I injured my foot and ended up having two surgeries to fix it.
I just kept going through it. Until the spring of '08, when I thought I
was dying. I was totally prepared for the doc to tell me I had ________
and you have a year to live. He said, lets do a sleep study.

Uncle_Bob wrote:I only stop that if the temperature goes above 115 degrees or my AHI goes above 15

My riding metric is below 20F and/or snow/ice covered roads.
I don't ever plan on having an AHI of anything close to 15, ever again.

Ride on!

Uncle_Bob wrote:I was undiagnosed for about 3 months with notable tiredness but am back to 100 miles a week commute on my cyclocross bike. I only stop that if the temperature goes above 115 degrees or my AHI goes above 15

My God! You bikers are resiliant!

SleepyT wrote: My God! You bikers are resiliant!

Oops! Let's make that resilient. (spell check, spell check!)