Posted by Lew on September 25, 1998 at 13:48:26:

In Reply to: Re: wife of sleep apnea candidate posted by Therese on September 25, 1998 at 13:22:38:

Therese, DENIAL??!!! Let me tell you about denial.
About three years before MY WIFE finally got fed up and made an appointment for me, she started to express her concern "about my choking and not
breathing at night". My response was "ahhhh, it's your imagination, I don't have some madeup medical
condition, that is probably just a bunch of gobbilgook made up my a bunch of priviledged new
age types"...don't worry about it.
Well, things kinda snowballed from there. It became routine for me wake EVERY 1 1/2 hours to
urinate; it became routine for me to have blinding
headaches several times a month that kept we passed out for a day at time (I never had headaches before in my life!); it became routine
for me drive holding one eye open with my fingers
while I "rested" the other eye; it became normal
for me not to want to have sex because it wasn't
worth the effort.
Then, the final humiliation. I wet the bed on
two occassions....only slightly, it woke me up.
I was so embarassed, I couldn't tell my wife, but
I still didn't think it was OSA.
In secret I made a medical appointment for testing for diabetes and a psa test for postate. Boy, was I bumed when nothing abnormal showed up. I was in
such a state of denial, that I would rather have
had diabetes than OSA (and I still didn't know exactly what OSA was).
Finally, my wife came home and told me she had made an appoint with a sleep doc for the both of us to go in. She had to still drag me in at this point!
Yeah, I know all about denial,LOL!!
Lew

Follow Ups:

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