Anyone suffer from this?
I have felt really unwell on an almost daily basis for years now. Headaches every day, pain all over, concentration lapses and even an inability to lose weight.
I went to the docs perhaps once every 6 months over the last 5 years to talk about this and was constantly fobbed off by them and told there was nothing wrong. It was only when I mentioned that my Mrs says I stop breathing in my sleep that I finally had a referral for a sleep survey which confirmed I've got sleep apnoea. Apparently I was having 40 episodes an hour during the night. 40! No wonder I felt shit when waking up.
I've now been using a CPAP machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_positive_airway_pressure for all of 2 days and there has been a complete and utter change in the way I feel! No headache, no pain, I feel alert and, without wishing to overstate things (although I know I'm doing exactly that!) I feel like a completely new person already :-)
I cannot express the difference this is hopefully going to make to my life. Just thought I'd share my good news with fellow Blues.
Oh, one more thing.... I've never really suffered from tiredness strangely enough. The docs say that as this is the case I don't need to inform DVLA of the issue. They also said that even those who do suffer from tiredness very rarely get their license taken off them (about 1% apparently) as the symptoms can completely go away when treated so if there's anyone who thinks sleep apnoea could be the cause of their health issues don't put off going to see the docs just because this is a worry.
I have felt really unwell on an almost daily basis for years now. Headaches every day, pain all over, concentration lapses and even an inability to lose weight.
I went to the docs perhaps once every 6 months over the last 5 years to talk about this and was constantly fobbed off by them and told there was nothing wrong. It was only when I mentioned that my Mrs says I stop breathing in my sleep that I finally had a referral for a sleep survey which confirmed I've got sleep apnoea. Apparently I was having 40 episodes an hour during the night. 40! No wonder I felt shit when waking up.
I've now been using a CPAP machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_positive_airway_pressure for all of 2 days and there has been a complete and utter change in the way I feel! No headache, no pain, I feel alert and, without wishing to overstate things (although I know I'm doing exactly that!) I feel like a completely new person already :-)
I cannot express the difference this is hopefully going to make to my life. Just thought I'd share my good news with fellow Blues.
Oh, one more thing.... I've never really suffered from tiredness strangely enough. The docs say that as this is the case I don't need to inform DVLA of the issue. They also said that even those who do suffer from tiredness very rarely get their license taken off them (about 1% apparently) as the symptoms can completely go away when treated so if there's anyone who thinks sleep apnoea could be the cause of their health issues don't put off going to see the docs just because this is a worry.