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what were your symptoms before dx of sleep apnea?

Posted by joy on April 07, 2002 at 15:38:42:

Hello, I just had my first sleep study this past thursday night and I am so afraid that it is going to come back negative and I will be at another dead end again.
I am a 37 yr. old female and I have had problems with sleepiness, severe fast heart rate with severe high BP (once a month for 17 years) since the age of 13. Then when I hit 30 I was no longer to take a daily nap and I pushed myself to the point where I was too tired to fall asleep. After pushing myself for about year or so without daily naps I developed terrible pains in my neck and shoulders and became very exhausted all the time. I have been dx'd with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, arryhtmias, and IBS.
I am worried about the sleep study being normal because so far every other test I have had they couldnt find any problems--but why do I feel so bad. I thought maybe it was my adrenal glands or thyroid so I sent to 5 different endos and all of them said all of my glands were fine, the last endo I saw suggested a sleep study so thats when I thought what the heck, I have tried everything else mine as well try this.
But I dont really have the symptoms. I dont snore unless I am really really tired..I dont gasp for breathe.
I just get really sleepy all day long, and then to the point where I am so exhausted that I can feel my heart starting to beat hard and my breathing begins to get shallow, my eyes began to get very droppy and blood shot, my ears start to ring, I get a headache, my head feels full and its hard to concentrate or hold a conversation.
Then when I do try to lay down and take a nap, its like I have pasted the point of sleepiness and am now into pure exhausted state and its impossible to fall asleep because I am not sleepy but my body is done. Does that make any sense?
Does anyone here suffer from the same symptoms or close to it that would like share with me becuase I am so afraid that the sleep study will not show anything and I dont think I can go on like this much longer...Thanks for all of your help--You guys are great! Joy

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