Sleep Apnea Experience
About a months ago, I was told that I had "Sleep apnea". After that I started a blog to share my experience in a blog in Japanese and I saw many access from other countries other than Japan. So, I also decided to write my experience in English as well. The contents might not be the same, but I will share my experience and some improvement plan in this blog.
I have some typical symptom!
Before I was told the result of diagnosis, I had typical symptoms for sleep apnea. However I had never thought I had sleep apnea. The symptom is that I was getting very sleep after lunch and I also felt I was very tired after waking up in the morning. However I though they were due to aging or lack of sleeping since the symptom started a few years ago and I was getting fifty years old.
Background to find sleep apnea
The reason it was found was to see a doctor for different reason which was a chest pain. Actually, it is probably not a pain. I would say I had some strange feeling on my left chest. It happens rarely, but getting more often since late last year. Since it was only on the left chest / back, I wondered if I have some heart related issue. That was the reason why I saw a doctor.
After visiting a doctor I had done blood testings, cardiac diagnostics including some stress type testing. All result showed no issues. The doctor gave me a query to look for some other possibilities. One thing what my wife told me that she thought my breathing stopped some time during sleeping. But it was long time ago and it was not happening the time I had the symptom. So I thought it was nothing related for the symptom I was facing. But the doctor suggested to see a specialist in sleep disorder dept just in case and I had a sleep study at home. Finally, the doctor found I had mild sleep apena. My case is mild sleep apena, but the doctor suggested to start some treatment since it may become some serious result if I do not do anything now.
After my internet research, I found out it might be getting really serious result as well. This is how sleep apnea is found in my case.
(To be continue)
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