My Apple Watch saved my life.
The wife always said I snored and she suspected I had sleep apnea. After I got my Watch I downloaded a sleep monitoring app to prove her wrong.
The app said I woke up many times during the night, something I had no recollection of.
So with this information in hand, I saw a sleep specialist, who set up a sleep study.
The results were surprising. I had an average of 93 apnea episodes an hour. Worse, they were a mix of obstructive and central apnea. Central Apnea is a neurological disorder when, basically, your brain forgets how to breath.
I was in imminent danger of dying every night and didn’t know it.
They have me on a CPAP machine now, assisted with oxygen, and I sleep like a baby, less than 5 episodes an hour on average.
Would have never done the sleep study had it not been for the Apple Watch.
How long did it take you to get used to the machine? Are you using a mask? Did you see improvements quickly?
Similar story here. Should have gotten tested 10 years before I did. Cpap machine is a life saver. My dad took all the tests noted in this story and was cleared too. Died about 3 months later, in his sleep. Fat lot of good they did him.