I had sleep apnea. But I’ve also had weird sleeping issues since I was a child at one time I was sleep eating. And I’ve passed this down to my nephew.
My husband used to get scared about by my breathing.
I used to fall asleep everywhere, it would just hit me without warning. The scariest moment for me was
the first time this happened I was at a local park & I fell asleep at the wheel for 5 seconds while I was leaving the park luckily no one else was on the road and the car had good alignment so I stayed on the road and my daughter who yelled “MOM!” woke me. The funny thing is I didnt even feel tired.
So after that I was off to the skeep clinic. They found I had sleep apnea and I forget the exct numbers but the doctor said he’d never seen someone stop breathing so much it was like 110 times an hour and no wonder I was falling asleep because I wasnt really getting a restful sleep he also said that that’s probably why when I slept sometimes I could sleep for over 12 hours because in that 12 hours of sleep I was actually only getting 8 if you excluded the amount of times I “woke up” from not breathing.
So at the time go figure I could’nt afford the machine so I didnt drive for awhile and we saved up to get a new mattress, a much cheaper option. Then my husband passed away so I honestly do not remember what happened after that with the sleep apnea. But I know now 3yrs later I have lost a lot of weight and I’ve been able to get out everyday for a walk and before my husband passed I quit smoking so my cardio now is way better than it ever was. All that plus the awesome foam mattress my husband ended up purchasing I haven’t had any instances of sleep apnea!
So I can say what I think was agitating the sleep apnea for me and they may be the same or different for someone else:
~Stress
~Smoking
~Not enough exercise
~Mattress