Sleep apnea...scary stuff yall
After 10 years of my beloved elbowing me in the side yelling "roll over your snoring".....which graduated to "god I can,t sleep with you holding your breath like that" I finally went and had a sleep study done.....The explitive "Holy shit!!!!" comes to mind when I reveiwed the results with my MD....In an 8 hour period I had over 100 "micro-arousals" (meaning trying to wake up from a sound sleep....get your mind out of the gutter...lol) no slow wave sleep, (thats the rest and recuperative stuff) and rapid onset of REM sleep, and rapid onset of "sleep" when laying down. At times when sleeping on my back my O2 sats desaturated to as low as 50% ( normal O2 sats are 96ish to 100%)
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