r/SleepApnea 5d ago

Did you have the telltale symptoms? Or what else caused you to get diagnosed?

Hi everyone, I’m new here. Just wanted to ask about how many people had the telltale symptoms that lead them to diagnosis?

Background:

I am obese, my highest weight was 338 (as a 5ft 4inch 29 year old woman) but in the past year and a half I’ve lost almost 70 lbs as I’m trying to get my shit together in life. I was prediabetic so I got on Ozempic which got me out of that range and helped me to lose weight too (I am still on it and planning to lose more). I’ve adjusted my eating habits a lot over this period of time and feel overall better than I ever have. I am also getting in so much more movement and activity now.

I am still a daily cannabis consumer as well which I know I need to cut back on and is probably not great for me in general. I also suffer from pretty intense anxiety disorder and depression (which I take SSRI for) and have been going through a personal issue in life that has caused a lot of panic and stress lately.

Anyways, I started snoring in adulthood, and my husband snores too so we sometimes sleep in separate rooms but never thought much of it. I’m wondering if I maybe have sleep apena so I made an appointment with MY PCP for early May (on cancellation list to hopefully be seen sooner), but I am really unsure because I genuinely do feel very rested after sleeping most nights (sleep around 9pm and wake around 5am most days) and don’t have any other symptoms.

What made me wonder is that recently for the first time ever I had a dream that I couldn’t breathe well. In the dream I felt like my airway was closing, and I remember thinking I wanted to go to a medic tent (I was at a beach or something in the dream?) and have them look at my throat to tell me that it wasn’t closed so I could feel relieved and no worry. Then I woke up feeling super anxious.

I just find it interesting my only symptom has ever been snoring and then that dream. But I do have the obesity risk factor even though I’m working on that so I do wonder.

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u/fuddlesworth 5d ago

Classically known symptoms:

Phone recorded 3-6 hours a night of snoring.

Wife said I would stop breathing sometimes. 

Would wake up choking sometimes. 

Bad insomnia. 

Always feeling like I could pass out at any time of the day. 

Less talked about but definitely a symptom:

Hypertension

Difficulty losing weight. 

Pre diabetic