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Originally Posted by LakeCleElum
It's not just the snoring to be concerned about. Sleep Apena is hard on your heart and can cut years off your life. Make an appointment with a Sleep Doc and follow his/her advice.
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What Bob said.
Get a sleep study done. The snoring may have something to do with you being a "light sleeper."
I was totally depressed when my doc sent me for a sleep study and I found out I needed a CPAP machine. I thought, "Another step toward the grave/not being the man I used to be. First arthritis, now this..."
I eventually got used to it and now I can really tell if I fall asleep and don't use it. I wake up with a sore throat and feeling like crap.
The sleep study showed that I woke up 18 times in 7 hours if sleep. I never became fully conscious, but my brain activity was out of the "sleeping" range. I never entered REM sleep at all, and you need that. I used to have dreams every night that I couldn't sleep. I dreamed that I was laying there awake and feeling tortured because I needed sleep so bad. The thing was, I was asleep (barely) and just dreaming that I was awake. That totally went away when I started using the CPAP.
I use the full mask. It took a couple of months to get used to it, but it was worth it.