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I stop breathing while falling asleep.

Posted by trippangie17 @trippangie17, Jun 10, 2012

Just as my body relaxes and I begin to fall asleep, I find myself not breathing. Sometimes I do fall asleep and wake up breathing fast. I then begin relaxing and my breathing slows down; I feel myself wanting to breath, but my body won't until I "wake" myself up enough to breath again.
I have a bi-pap machine for moderate sleep apnea, but I do it with machine on. I can't use a c-pap because I feel as though I'm being suffocated.
I was born not breathing. My apgar scale was 1 after 1 min. They did cpr for 20 min. before I began breathing on my own.
Anyone else with similar problems?

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brittni79 | @brittni79 | Jun 10 11:39am
In reply to @scottrl "I'm glad to hear you're on track for a sleep study! I'd never heard of them..." + (show)
@scottrl

I'm glad to hear you're on track for a sleep study!

I'd never heard of them until one day when I took a nap and woke up sweating, gasping for air, my heart hammering like the end of the world. My wife drove me to the ER.

At the emergency room, the MD who treated me asked, "Do you have a high-stress job? Does your wife complain about you snoring? Have you gained weight recently?" Yes, yes, and yes.
He said, "You need a sleep study. You're the classic profile of someone with what's called Sleep Apnea." I'd never heard of it.

To make a long story short, after a few months I got a CPAP machine, and once I started using it, I got my life back.

Good luck!

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Yes! I used to work for a sleep specialist for 6 years and I fitted patients with masks, ordered them, calibrated the cpap and BIPAP machines etc I just never thought of myself 🤦🏻‍♀️ I’m very thin and don’t snore but I have always had very light sleep and feel like my body is stuck in fight or flight and doesn’t ever get into deep sleep so I don’t heal and restore hence my poor digestion. So much to worry about. I’m glad you got on a machine, it very hard on your heart if not

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