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Does anyone here have Sleep Apnea?
It seems like I do. I wake up several times a night totally unable to breathe.
A lot of times I'll be having a nightmare of being choked or some shit and I wake up and am actually choking.
Basically your airway gets constricted to the point where your breathing is completely blocked and eventually (hopefully) your brain signals that something's not copasetic and wakes you up.
Not only does it make you feel tired all the time ('cuz you never really get a good night's sleep) but it can cause strokes, heart attacks and death. So now I'm going to have this sleep study where you go to a clinic and are monitored all night to see how many incidences of apnea there are, etc. Then they can prescribe a CPAP machine (basically forcing continuous air into your airway) or surgery to remove soft tissue in the back of your throat.
Has anyone here been treated successfully for this?
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