Any of you suspect you have sleep apnea, get a sleep study. I put it off for years. Like a lot of people, I kind of assumed that only fat people got it.
Once I got used to sleeping with a mask, holy shit, it was like discovering REM sleep. Also probably saved my marriage.
I can't recommend it enough.
Same here, I kept arguing with my spouse that I just had sleep issues, it wasn't sleep apnea because only fat people get it and I'm not close to bmi obesity. Turns out just having a genetically thick neck or lots of neck muscle just automatically guarantees it. After the sleep study I stepped into the actual doctor's office and no shit from across the waiting room he said "yep you have sleep apnea". I was the only one in the waiting room, I get into the patient room and he basically breaks down that after 30 years of treating this he can tell just by looking at necks. If you're fat, or you're genetically disposed to having either a fat or muscular neck, or you have a muscular neck, you have sleep apnea. I never, never knew I could sleep like I do. It was a life of waking up more tired than I went to bed and dozing off all the time. My primary care said "you weigh 81.5kg, you don't have sleep apnea". Man was he wrong. The nurse at the sleep study begged me, he said he saw so many people not give the cpap a chance and basically die over time from the side effects of not enough sleep. If I give it a fair chance, the problem is just gone. I've never slept so good. My mind's never been clearer.
Great point here, if you think you have it, and if you have a doctor that dismisses out of hand and says you're too skinny to have it, get another doctor. That's a lazy fucking retard who understands nothing about the human body or brain, and that doctor will fuck you up somehow down the line in some other way by making some other retarded, preventable mistake.
It is life changing, going through the sleep study and using the CPAP. When you're better rested, you make better decisions, and the ripple effect from that will continue to improve your life.
This, absolutely. I get sick half as much (barely once a year now), my mind is clear as day, my memory improved, my energy improved, my emotional stability improved.