I should totally do this. My bf’s snoring is super funny 😂
Not that funny when I’m trying to sleep tho 😭
Ok all this sleep apnea stuff is fine and you should get checked of you can, go do it, yes.
But if someone recorded me while I was sleeping and posted it to the internet rather than talking to me about it, that’s a huge invasion of privacy, 40k listeners or not. Wtf?
And nobody here is concerned with that…?
Well, the OP’s username certainly checks out! Sleep apnea can be a big, common cause of snoring, (especially funny/weird snoring,) since your body is desperately trying to keep you breathing and alive against other parts of your body that are trying to do the opposite, all while you’re not getting enough oxygen, lol. Then you’re pooped and foggy all the time because that kind of sleep is nooot all that restful. A lot of people don’t even realize how bad it is for them until after they got treatment.
If this sounds like you or someone you love, and getting a sleep study is an option, please talk to your doctor about getting one! I gave a really simplistic explanation of it, (sorry, my brain is disabled trash,) but it’s a serious – and usually super treatable! – condition.
Just an FYI for others: you can have sleep apnea even if you don’t snore; in the same vein, if you snore,it doesn’t mean you have sleep apnea. For instance, my partner started snoring once he became overweight. He did a sleep study, which confirmed no sleep apnea.
But if you suspect sleep apnea, get a sleep study asap. It can cause various health issues such as diabetes, heart issues, high blood pressure, etc.
I started snoring after years of drinking heavily! After quitting, I no longer snore.
Well, the OP’s username certainly checks out!
😂
My bf has it. It’s that “funny kind of snoring” where he sometimes stops making sound (but I can see him breathing), literally jolts awake while gasping for air, wakes up for a couple of seconds and falls back asleep…over and over again. When the choking part comes, it scares the shit out of me and I literally jump. It’s baaaad.
I finally convinced him to get it checked after a looooong time of trying to live with it. I think he got a sleep study? He got a machine to put onto himself at night to monitor one night of his sleep. We returned the machine with the recorded data, but we never heard back from the doctor. I’m gonna get him to go again, cause it’s honestly terrible, on top of that he only sleeps like 6 hours and he doesn’t take it seriously at all. sigh
Anyway, rant over. Bf snores.
I think he got a sleep study? He got a machine to put onto himself at night to monitor one night of his sleep. We returned the machine with the recorded data, but we never heard back from the doctor. I’m gonna get him to go again, cause it’s honestly terrible, on top of that he only sleeps like 6 hours and he doesn’t take it seriously at all.
I unfortunately see myself in this, since I only recently did the ‘go back to your PCP to follow up on the sleep study’ part after a year of not hearing anything back. I really wish I had done so sooner.
Absolutely encourage him to follow up with the doctor, and if at all possible, REREAD the sleep study results and actually understand what it says (research if you have to!). I was regularly getting down below 87% SpO2 (you’re not supposed to go below 93%…) and it made me feel like microwaved dogshit. I got a CPAP and it has done wonders for my sleep. I’m actually trying to get my wife to go in for one as well, but it will be interesting to see how we can get the hosing to her spot in the middle…
I can second that feeling of “microwaves dogshit” sleeping without a CPAP.
Wear it even for naps; it helps (as advice to the top commenter)
Sleep apnea is no joke… a relative had it so bad they were randomly falling asleep all the time during the day, they were just absurdly sleep deprived. But they were claiming they were “sleeping fine 8 hours a day” and it was nothing. They only got it checked after the whole family refused to get in the car if they were driving and refused to let them babysit. That was the wake up call they needed. (Oddly the whole thing lasted two months total from first symptoms to absurdity and intervention) Now with the CPAP they are doing great again.
When my dad had a TBI, I told the nurses that he had undiagnosed sleep apnea because he wasn’t coherent yet.
Their response? “Oh honey, we know.”
He ran marathons for 40 years, so it’s important to note that sleep apnea isn’t just a weight issue
There’s now a dental appliance you can get that treats sleep apnea so you don’t have to fuck with a CPAP. One of these days I’ll do my impressions for it.
If your sleep apnea is “light” enough you can get the mouth guard. If it’s bad to worse, it’s either machine or implant.
I’m not talking about the mouth guard. This is a prescription dental appliance for mild to moderate obstructive apnea.
I knew someone that died in their 20s from sleep apnea.
That sounds more like central apnea than obstructive apnea.
Had a supermorbidly obese mania pt where (imo) a big part of the problem was poor sleep at night. They would sleep sitting straight up against the wall and when they would finally nod off, their head would fall to the side and you’d immediately hear them start choking on their own throat until they jerked partially awake enough to pick their head back up. That mania was crazy hard to break because they were too manic to tolerate the CPAP but also too sleep deprived to break out of the mania.
100% medically cleared and ambulatory enough for psych but that snore was just aaaawful to listen to. I used to mention it every single time I handed off in the morning and they’d be like “we know!” and I’d be like, no. no you don’t know. You haven’t just sat and listened to it for an hour straight. It just keeps going like that. Continuously. There is 0 REM happening. ZERO.
