Sleep apnea — I have it.
But do you still have to wear a thousand little electrodes in your scalp?
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I kept telling Mrs. hotshu that she was not breathing “right” during the night and she should get checked for sleep apnia. She kept denying that anything was wrong, but was constantly fatigued.
We spent a bit of time apart due to job relocations during which she got a cat. She started telling me that the cat kept waking her up in the middle of the night by patting her face. I finally convinced her that the cat was patting her face because she had stopped breathing.
She finally went for the clinical tests, and sure ‘nough, my baby stops breathing while sleeping. It has had very damaging effects to her physically because of the delay in obtaining breathing assistance, but she has finally gotten medical assistance.
Moral to the story: If someone you love suffers from suspected sleep apnia, get them a loving cat.
Thanks for the post, crazyshrink.
Eh? Hubby just had one of those blood oxygen readers on his finger.
CPAP didn’t work for me. Having a harness strapped around my head, a mask clamped to my face with a tube sticking out of it, pumping air up my nose, drove me crazy. It was worse than the sleep apnea.