{"id":3417,"date":"2020-04-25T13:45:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T13:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewhope.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=3417"},"modified":"2022-05-14T19:50:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T18:50:06","slug":"obstructive-sleep-apnea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewhope.co.uk\/Blog\/obstructive-sleep-apnea\/","title":{"rendered":"Obstructive Sleep Apnea"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve never been a good sleeper. I contribute this to a couple of things, my weight, my personality and my messed up body clock. Although lately I think I&#8217;ve developed Obstructive Sleep Apnea.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bit hard to describe what it is. I thought it could be a crappy sleep pattern through my body clock I&#8217;ve installed sleep apps on my phone to try and monitor it, but basically I average around 6 hours sleep per night. Of that I get around 30 mins REM sleep, 2.5 hours light sleep and 3 hours deep sleep. For what it&#8217;s worth, without doing proper testing in a laboratory anyway.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regardless, I think I&#8217;m suffering from Sleep Apnea, I&#8217;ve suffered for a few years with randomly being tired in the day, regardless of the sleep I get I still end up yawning multiple times. Lately every night I go to sleep, I fall asleep for about an hour and then wake up, literally having to force myself to gasp for air. It&#8217;s a strange feeling, almost like my body has forgotten how to breathe. It&#8217;s happened a couple of times when awake. It&#8217;s slightly unsettling, but once it happens, I manage to drop off to sleep without issues. The only things I&#8217;ve been able to think of causing this is Sleep Apnea, Obesity or neurological damage. I also considered that I was bloody choking myself unconcious when I sleep without realising as I lie on my arm on my neck when I sleep, but I think that&#8217;s highly irregular.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most likely cause is that I&#8217;ve developed Obstructive Sleep Apnea because of my weight, so I&#8217;m working on that first. I&#8217;d be interested in hearing other peoples opinions on it. I&#8217;m actually a nose breather, I rarely breathe through my mouth, although I have discovered I snore when I sleep (sometimes). I&#8217;m not really sure there&#8217;s a way of checking it other than monitoring my CO2\/OXYGEN levels whilst I sleep some how or breathing through a mask to see if it helps, or going to a doctor to be diagnosed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The main thing that really unsettles me is the Air Gasping though. I thought it may have been sleep paralysis but I&#8217;ve never suffered it before. 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