Posted by Bob on September 23, 1999, at 16:30:20
In reply to Re: Racing Heart...& apnea?, posted by dj on September 23, 1999, at 14:45:24
> However, what would signs of apnea be besides the racing heart mentioned by Noa?
My experiences included:
- snoring so loud I woke myself up (I kid you not!)
- snoring so loud I kept waking my partner up (whereupon she would push me over onto my side or just pound on me til I woke up, too)
- waking up in the middle of the night, panicked that you are suffocating (which, actually, may be the case)That last one was the worst symptom for me -- I'd wake up three or four times a night in a panic that I was drowning, whatever. And until I did sit up, I usually couldn't draw enough breath to stop the panic. My GP took a look in my head and thought that some of the tissue in the back of my throat was swollen. He put me on an inhalent of some sort -- it might have been a steroid-based med -- and that did help with the apnea for me. Otherwise, next step would have been a sleep study.
Hope that helps,
Bob
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