Losing It

Last year I was diagnosed with sleep apnea.  This was a frightening diagnosis.  I did not know much about the condition, let alone feel that I could ever be effected by it.  What I knew about sleep apnea was it was a condition that you stop breathing in the night when you are sleeping.  You could die from this condition.  I was very concerned when I found out that I was diagnosed with this condition.

After talking to my doctor I found out that I don’t stop breathing.  I have a mild form of sleep apnea.  My oxygen drops down to a dangerous level.  While I am still breathing I am never getting a good night sleep because my body is constantly waking itself up so that I can raise my oxygen level.  I was never getting a good night of sleep.

I realised that something was wrong because I was constantly tired.  I wanted to sleep more and more but never felt like I had got enough sleep.  I also was working out very hard and I just was not loosing any weight.  I just did not feel like anything was going right, and I knew that something had to be wrong.

After having a sleep study, I found out that I had sleep apnea.  Now I wear a cpap machine at night that measures the pressure of my breathing, and when it starts to drop, it forces air so that my oxygen will not drop.  It takes a couple of days to get used to wearing it, but it does make all of the difference in the world.

The best thing I ever did was go to my doctor and talk about what was going on, because now I am doing something so that I can be rested.  Also by getting a better quality of sleep, I hope that this will help my body do what it needs to do so that I can loose the weight

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