I had untreated sleep apnea for years, which presented in two ways: snoring, and something that looked an awful lot like panic attacks. Every doctor I saw kept

I had untreated sleep apnea for years, which presented in two ways: snoring, and something that looked an awful lot like panic attacks. Every doctor I saw kept insisting that everything was fine, everything was healthy, every test came back clean, brain MRIs and epilepsy screening, chest x-rays, and more cardiologist exams than I care to remember. Sleep apnea is super common, but no one thought to look for it because I was thin. At one point, some idiot doctor threw the phrase "Could be MS.." at me. That lingered in the back of my mind for years. I've worked in hospitals, I know my way around the system, I'm pretty intelligent, and I usually have my shit together. But that whole experience left some scars, and I'm a lot less mentally robust against illness than I used to be.