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A lot of the symptoms of sleep apnea look like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome on the surface. If you feel tired all of the time no matter how much you sleep, get a sl

A lot of the symptoms of sleep apnea look like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome on the surface. If you feel tired all of the time no matter how much you sleep, get a sleep study. Sleep apnea is pretty treatable. You don't have to be overweight to have sleep apnea.

Smaug123 7y ago
No competent doctor should diagnose CFS without a full sleep study to rule out such sleep disorders.
- Hydraulix989 7y ago
  One would hope. It took me until early adulthood to get diagnosed with sleep apnea because doctors had repeatedly told me such things as "you can't have sleep apnea if you're not overweight," "you have good grades in school and don't have trouble running 3 miles at track practice, you must not be THAT tired," "every teenager is tired, you just need to improve your sleep schedule," "you need to cut caffeine," and by far the worst -- "you're just depressed, let me put you on Prozac". These are competent/highly trained doctors that aren't in the Bay Area or New York but are in a US tech hub containing a Top 15 medical school. After I insisted on a sleep study, the results came back as me having SEVERE obstructive sleep apnea with 30 cessations of breath per hour (once every 2 minutes) while asleep. You just don't notice it while you're asleep because your body kicks itself out of REM sleep into lighter, less productive sleep but you're not consciously awakened whenever it happens. I even heard the last two ("you just need an earlier bedtime" and "you're depressed") EVEN after showing my doctors the sleep study results with the actual data. Terrible. If you go on /r/sleepapnea, you'll find that these kind of stories are still surprisingly and unfortunately very common. I have jaw surgery at Stanford on the books for early next year to finally fix this.

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A lot of the symptoms of sleep apnea look like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome on the surface. If you feel tired all of the time no matter how much you sleep, get a sl

by Hydraulix989 7y ago

Smaug123 7y ago
No competent doctor should diagnose CFS without a full sleep study to rule out such sleep disorders.
- Hydraulix989 7y ago
  One would hope. It took me until early adulthood to get diagnosed with sleep apnea because doctors had repeatedly told me such things as "you can't have sleep apnea if you're not overweight," "you have good grades in school and don't have trouble running 3 miles at track practice, you must not be THAT tired," "every teenager is tired, you just need to improve your sleep schedule," "you need to cut caffeine," and by far the worst -- "you're just depressed, let me put you on Prozac". These are competent/highly trained doctors that aren't in the Bay Area or New York but are in a US tech hub containing a Top 15 medical school. After I insisted on a sleep study, the results came back as me having SEVERE obstructive sleep apnea with 30 cessations of breath per hour (once every 2 minutes) while asleep. You just don't notice it while you're asleep because your body kicks itself out of REM sleep into lighter, less productive sleep but you're not consciously awakened whenever it happens. I even heard the last two ("you just need an earlier bedtime" and "you're depressed") EVEN after showing my doctors the sleep study results with the actual data. Terrible. If you go on /r/sleepapnea, you'll find that these kind of stories are still surprisingly and unfortunately very common. I have jaw surgery at Stanford on the books for early next year to finally fix this.