Do I have sleep apnea?

Without a night stay in a lab. or hospital, where you will be monitored for the frequency and duration of a "stop breathing status", usually caused by obstruction of the air flow into your lungs, you can never be sure of your status. True that tiredness is typical with sleep apnea, usually helped by the CPAP (continuous positive air pressure) machine which you mentioned, or by laser removal of throat tissue which may cause the obstruction (office procedure by a physician). Here are things you can do: 1. Try to raise the upper portion of your bed, by either inserting something under the mattress or what is available at pharmacies known as a foam wedge. 2. Try not to sleep on your back all night long. This can be accomplished by locating an object on your back (tennis ball, etc.), so when you roll over in your sleep you will not remain on your back. 3. Keep a water bottle handy to simply wet your mouth, since chances are your nose may be obstructed as well, causing you to sleep with your mouth open.

Throat obstruction is usually caused by floppy tissue, which by gravity, as you sleep on your back, will block your throat. Some persons stop breathing for even 1 minute, which causes them to wake-up suddenly, or fight in their sleep as if they were being asphyxiated. If you do have to end-up using a CPAP machine, keep in mind one must do what one must do to stay healthy. Sleep apnea and high blood pressure are usually connected. I wish you the best!

i'm no longer specific, yet Apnea can worsen. So perhaps you had it in a milder form till at last now. I easily have by no skill had issues till at last a pair years in the past after surgical treatment i became informed that I had a nap situation. It seems that my shallow respiratory wakes me up approximately 26 situations an hour (no longer all the way, in basic terms keeps me out of REM sleep). i'm additionally a Heroic snorer.

As far as sleep apnea -- you may have it or you may not. It requires an overnight sleep study to find out. There are other things that can cause the symptoms you such as hypothyroidism, or possibly even a different sleep disorder (there are about 80 classified sleep disorders).

As to breathing machine (CPAP machine) -- they don't make you dependent, unless you consider getting a good night's sleep dependency.

As to other solutions (not surgical) -- weight loss, staying off of your back when sleeping, no alcohol or drugs before bedtime, etc.

Your hormones are out of control and doing all sorts of weird things to you. Assuming your weight is under control, it is unlikely that you have osa (obstructive sleep apnea). I am 30 and meet a lot of the criteria as well (since the symptoms are not that specific). I would recommend seeing a pulmonologist and/or sleep specialist to get a sleep study done, but again it is very unlikely you have it at your age.

As for treatments there a several options.

There is UPPP surgery (uvulopalatoplasty) which basically reconfigures you throat.

CPAP/Bilevel/VPAP are all noninvasive methods of splinting your airway open, but do involve masks.

Sounds like you could have more serious

medical problems than sleep apnea. See your doctor.

Are you overweight? This could cause the problems you discribed.

Type 2 diabetes?

See your doctor. Really.