My mom may have a sleep disorder and we do not know what it is. She falls to sleep very easy, all she has to do is lay down. Half the time she is not even tired. Then when morning comes she has trouble waking up. Someone has to call her in order for her to wake up all the way or she will fall back to sleep. She is not having irregular dreams or breathing patterns, but I am very concerned about her.

Okay, sorry this is so long, i just had to explain myself :p
For about the past year or so I’ve been noticing that during the day I am always fatigued. Some days when i have nothing at all to do I could sleep about 16 hours. My mom didn’t think anything of it cause I’m 16 and she just thinks i stay out all night lol. I could sleep about 16 or so hours, wake up, be exhausted, and take a nap and sleep some more, then around 8 go back to sleep. I know this isn’t normal, and isn’t physically, nor mentally/emotionally healthy. I am anemic and i figured it was because my lack of iron. And thats also what my doctor told me. but recently i’ve been noticing that in the middle of the night I will get woken up due to bone aches. Not like muscle aches, but bone aches. And there so bad ill have to get up and take something and suffer through until the medicine kicks in. It’s normally like, my elbow, the bones all through my legs, and my pelvic area. I also wake in the middle of the night and catch myself not breathing. But that doesn’t happen as often as the aches. I did some research and found that i have many symptoms of sleep apnea. But i don’t want to be put on a breathing machine, because I don’t want to become dependent. I also don’t like, wanna be married and before bed have to plug up on oxygen or whatever. I was just wondering if anyone could give me any information or suggestions. Or if anyone knew if there were other procedures, not sergical, that I could take into consideration.
Thank you, if you read all of this and are attempting to help me. I appreciate it. :)
no, i am not overweight. i’m about 5′5 and weight 115. i dont have diabetes either.
And i also do not sleep on my back, I can only sleep on my stomach. And i’ve always been that way =/

I was online and my dad did not sign out of his email account..I know it was wrong but I looked at his email and found emails he has written to a woman!! He wrote things like he and my mom have not had sex in ten years and he will not divorce her because there is to much money involved and my brother has a learning disability (he is 32 yrs old) it would break his heart….he wrote things in his emails about his love for this woman how much he loves her ect.. I felt sick to my stomach after reading them and wish i haven’t..I know my parents have had problems they sleep in separate bedrooms..my mom is always nagging him about money..I always though they slept in separate bedrooms because of his sleep apnea machine (my mom complains about the noise) but according to his email its that way because they just don’t sleep togther anymore–I don’t know how I am gonna look at my father after reading all this..

I have had mood swings (not to serious) difficulty consentrating, insomnia at night, restless sleeping, really tired during the day, surges of energy every now and again what could this be I have looked up sleep apnea but not many of the symptoms apply I have ahd this for over a year on and off and never told my mom because it wasn’t to serious I am almost 13 if that matter and I have my period ( this was going on before I started my period) Sorry for the guys u should be used to that kind of talk by now!
Thanks I would like some websites to but if u can’t just telling me what u think it just as good ")
OH and temperary depression I usually eat my way out of depression also

so from time to time i get this pressure in my head or tightness or something,and i get dizzy, unbalanced, and feel weird. it also causes stabbing pain that is not severe but mild and goes away then it comes back, and sometimes i get headaches that last 5-15 minutes or 5-10. like at 4 in the morning i wake up and have a bad headache but then it goes away and i go to sleep 2 min later, and i wake up feeling tired, but no headache. i sometimes feel vertigo, lightheaded, dizzy, and shaky but shaking very little and its my fingers and arms. i get bone pain from time to time and sometimes feel stiff and feeling paralyzed but when i hit, scratch myself i can feel it and i can also move. when i breath i hear a whistling sound high pitched and usually when i get bad i get shortened of breath too. my face hurts to but not bad and i get stiff in my jaw and hurts. oh and my forehead hurts to but goes away like a second later. my neck feels stiff to and it hurts there to but it goes away maybe an hour later with all the other things my head. i watch a lot of tv and use computer really close. i sometimes get caught up on my speech and i forget recent things but not severely. i think i have sleep apnea, but not so sure because my mom said i would gasp for air
when i was yoounger but now in the past week i haven’t experienced it, or my moms.i am also under a lot of stress lately thinking about what’s wrong with me and if i might die. i recently stopped working out and exercising like a month ago, playing football and before that track and field. really heavy stuff.REALLY SORRY ABOUT ALL OF THIS BUT NEED TO KNOW WHAT’S HAPPENING. AND I HAVE ALREADY BEEN TO DOCTOR. SAID IT WAS NOTHING BUT I THINK IT’ S SOMETHING. ANSER PLEASE
i’m 15. 5"10. and 210 lbs
i’m 15. 5"10. and 210 lbs. oh and do i have sinus problems cause i ;m getting pain in face like jaw,right, andeyes, and forehead

Sometimes I kid around and say I’m all kinds of broken, but that was how I felt when he became my friend. I was in a verbally abusive relationship, although he never hit me, it probably would have hurt less if he had. Overweight, bi-polar disorder, PCoS, and more problems on top of that. I was ready for suicide, just to get life over with since I was that unhappy.

My new friend helped me understand that although I had some problems, they weren’t worth giving up on everything, including letting my family down. He became my best friend for the next three years, then he moved from Canada to the US to be with me. We ended getting married 3 weeks later.

When I meet him he was an online friend. I didn’t know everything about him as far as physical attributes, but I really didn’t care. Before he flew down he told me he was a heavy set guy, and I was ok with that. He reminds me of a huge teddy bear now.

My problem is this. When he moved here he was overweight, I don’t know how many pounds he was, but he was wearing a 2x shirt… Since then we’ve been married for 1 year and 8 months (today actually, how funny.) and he has gained another 2 shirt sizes. My husband now weighs in at about 360 at 5′8". I had sleep problems so I did a sleep study, I thought "well heck, he has sleep problems too, we’ll both go". They diagnosed him with Sleep Apnea, he stops breathing about 200 times an hour. I was terrified for his life, if he stops breathing that many times an hour, what is my promise that he will start breathing again? Well now to say the least he has a breathing machine that helps him at night. He hates it, but he wears it for me.

We went and saw our General Practitioner. He said that with Sleep Apnea, if it’s untreated the heart enlarges, and if it goes untreated he could have died within a matter of 3-5 years, if it he was lucky.

My husband’s problems with weight started when he started gaming online. Mom is a superb cook and made something like 6 course meals on a daily basis, as a stay at home mom. I think this is around when he hit 22ish. (He’s 30 now) We still game online… for a couple of months after seeing the doctor we walked 2 miles every day, when it started raining heavily in the area for a few weeks we stopped. Then I tried getting gym memberships for us, we went for 3 weeks… then he would refuse to go.

I’ve done everything. I’ve cried, I’ve voiced my opinion, commented about how his shirts occasionally show his tummy poking out, tried putting him on an expensive diet, showed him that I’m willing to support and work out too, and taken him to the gym or just randomly walking. For the life of me I can not get him to take more interest in his weight. I’m heartbroken that he isn’t taking this matter more seriously. My parents and brother are concerned, what’s the likeliness that he will survive the next ten years at this rate, what will happen to me when he’s gone. He’s literally the light of my life; he’s what keeps me stable.

How do you push someone to understand what they are doing to themselves? I’m overweight by about 30-50lbs, but since we’ve gotten married I’ve a few pounds, and kept it off.

It’s hard doing things together, shopping for clothes, being intimate. He wonders why I pull back, and I’ve tried telling him why, but he doesn’t understand, or doesn’t want to. My last thought is to send him back home to his family, leave him and maybe he’ll understand how much I need him to be healthy. But then I don’t even know if he’ll take action.

I know my husband is lazy, I am too to an extent, but he takes extremely good care of me. He has a hard time finding a job because he’s an immigrant to the US, so now he’s attending college to get additional training in his career. He’s not doing nothing all day. He’s studying, going to school, doing labs, and yes some gaming too. There’s no harm in that I think… It’s how we spend time together and keep within a budget.

Note: I don’t have insurance; I lost my full time job that had benefits. Since then I had to take the first job I could get, which is only part time. Before when we had the insurance he didn’t find the idea of weight loss pills acceptable, he thought they could cause permanent damage. Now that we don’t have insurance he’s thinking that MAYBE he’ll eventually take them. I don’t know if he’s saying it because he knows I can’t afford to get them for him, or if he was serious. My sister in law’s extended family has a doctor in it, he’s from Mexico. He offered to bring medication to my husband to help stimulate his metabolism. My husband said NO without a second thought. He said medications from Mexico weren’t safe. My brother argues that the same medical companies make drugs all across the world, but he just said no, and left it at that.

Sorry. I know this is long, but thank you for taking the time to read it, and possibly help me.
As a response to my first comment. My hubby sometimes says that I approach him at the wrong times, IE: He’s had a bad day. Other times he says he knows he needs to try, but just doesn’t. He’s even mentioned that if he cooks diet foods that I don’t always like them, and that’s disappointing for him. I’ve offered to cook my own meals, so that way he won’t feel as though he’s being unappreciated, but then he comments that he feels useless since his daily tasks are less than mine.

I am so concerned about my mom who has moderate to severe sleep apnea. She has gone to the doctor and has been told she needs to take immediate steps to help herself (like surgery or the machine), but because of my family’s medical bills, she consistently denies herself to put the rest of us first. My family and I have tried to convince her to get what she needs to have done regardless, but she won’t, because she knows it will probably be expensive. Are there some effective things she can do instead of surgery or the machine? I’ve heard of home remedies, but are these good enough?? Please help!

Well, i dont really much about it, but my mom just recently left to visit her grandmother, and my dad has sleep apnea. she told me to sleep with him to make sure he is alright, and im 16 so doing so would be kind of awkward, and i move around alot when im trying to sleep, so i wouldnt want to prevent him from falling asleep. so can anything bad happen if my dad isnt being watched when he sleeps? he has a CPAP machine btw

I have sometimes come to resent my husband lately because of his "sleeping disorder". His mom diagnosed him, and I’ve done a little research, but none of his symptoms seem to fit into any of the sleeping disorders I’ve found.

He sleeps soundly, heavily -you can’t wake him up at all. If I have to get up with the baby, or his youngest son he’d never ever know. I’ve left the house before to drive the baby around and came back an hour later -never even knew I left.

By the time I’m ready to crawl back into bed after I have to get up, he’s all over my side sleeping at an angle. I can’t wake him for anything, so I have to end up punching him to get him to even move, which sometimes really upsets him. I think he wants to cry. You’d be mad too if someone punched you in your sleep, but there’s not another way to get him up! He tosses and turns all night long, asleep the entire time but I’m awake because he’s rolling all over me and doesn’t know it.

Every morning, you’d think he’s be rested since he never wakes and usually has the whole bed to himself. Instead he’s complaining how tired he is, and how he didn’t get any sleep at all. I’m so confused. I’m tired because I’m up with the baby so when I hear him say this it almost angers me because I have never done well with a lack of sleep.

His mom says this has been going on since he was a child. If he does wake up, he is NOT awake and he falls -hard, or he talks jibberesh. Last night he told me AT&T was on the phone (his cell phone rang pretty late). We don’t have AT&T, so I looked at the phone and it was his brother. It doesn’t matter how early he goes to bed, if he gets a full 7-8 hours. It doesn’t sound like sleep apnea, but he does snore very loudly so I thought it may be at first. He also talks and cusses loudly in his sleep but he doesn’t know he’s doing it, or is not able to wake up from most dreams. Any advice on how to handle this issue or what you think may cause it would be appreciated. I love him and I want him to function better, and I want to sleep and stop being angry in the morning.

I need some serious help dealing with my mom and her sleep apnea. I’ve searched for information online but so far I can’t find what I’m looking for. My mom is a hard-headed patient. She falls asleep all the time without her CPAP on. Sometimes I have to wake her up 5-10 times a nite to get her to put it on. She has congestive heart failure. I’m afraid I’m going to go in her room and find her dead. I was wondering if anyone knows if there are CPAP machines available with alarms? Also, I was wondering if it is okay for people with sleep apnea to take naps in chairs? I don’t think she should do it but she does all the time. I think if I had proof, she would stop doing it.
Does anyone know where I can get better information on Sleep Apnea and CPAP’s? I’m desperate to help my mom.

well I discovered on my own recently that I have a mild case of sleep apnea, but as far as I know, its only a problem when I lay on my back. Well my mom has the same problem and it’s only bad for her when she lays on her back too. But I was wondering what would be the best treatment for this? Position therapy and/or a mouth piece? I really need help with this because I have to convince my mom that both me and her should be seen for it and treated. Thank you!

my mom is a patients that has sleep apnea and uses a cpap machine and fells like she is scared to use it cause she fells like shes claustrophobic and cant breathe with it on and whats to know about it and others problems and such.
she isn’t able to wear the mask because of it.

if you have/had the same problem then let me now.

PLEASE&&THANKS!!
Hannah
i have the nose tubes and still fill that way.

i told my parents i have sleep apnea but they don’t believe me. I told my dad but he ignored me and my mom said to just ignore it. I’m sick of having to deal with this and it really scares me that i might die and i’m only ten. Once i had a dream that the school was flooded with water and i tried to reach the top for air then i woke up and realized i wasn’t breathing. i have it for tons of times and sick of it not being treated

My 16 month old has never been a good night sleeper. He sleeps a couple of hours and then wakes up briefly. It used to be for a bottle, but now its either for a drink or he just sits up whining and then goes back to sleep. I noticed last night that he holds his breath while he is sleeping and then slowly lets it out making a moaning sound. His dad does this if he is really tired, too. Does this sound like a form of sleep apnea or just a normal kid thing? I’m wondering if he is waking up b/c of this. He has his check up at the end of July and I’m gonna mention it to the pediatrician. Do you know if they would do a sleep test on him? Just looking for mom’s or dad’s who may have experienced this. Thanks in advance!!

lately i have been waking up in the morning feeling if i didnt even sleep!
i dont drink caffeine, i make sure my room is dark and all those other things
my mom thinks i might have sleep apnea but im only 14!!
is it a possibility and how can i get a real good nights sleep?

p.s. i it helps its not my tonsils bc i had themtaken out when i was 5 :)
and i am skinny and an athlete

my grandmother has sleep apnea. my mom, who works at a sleep lab and also has sleep apnea, always knew this and believes she has had it for 10 or so years and has told her to get a test done. well i was finally able to convince my grandma to get it done and its terrible. her average sleep time was 76 seconds. she only remembers waking up twice for the bathroom.

since she has had the test and will soon find out a way to treat it, more likely the cpap,what are some things that can change for her positively? will she be less tired in the day, not so much out of breath, maybe even more energetic? she weighs around 220 pounds so could this help her lose the weight more so since she’ll be getting better sleep? she eats very healthy foods and small portions throughout the day.

my mom has been diagnosed with severe sleep apnea and her doctor has recommended that she buy a cpap machine to aid her in her sleep. we have been hearing conflicting opinions on whether she should get one or not.

would appreciate hearing from your experiences.

My doc wants me to have a sleep study done for sleep apnea, he suspects I have it, I don't think I do, but to rule it out, i will have it done–if my HMO covers it. Has anyone had one done in San Antonio and what is it like? I know they put electrodes all over you. How in the heck can you sleep like that?
yes, i know i have to do it, my doc has been right before, and that's what i pay him for, to keep me well. I have much to live for, namely 2 kids, 18and 4, and a Mom who lives with me and a sister and kids who need help from time to time. I hope i don't have it but if i do, at least they can catch it early.

My father has sleep apnea and I’m really worried what will happen if he doesn’t get it checked. My mom already bugged him to get it checked but he again keeps denying to go to the doctors.

He doesn’t has serious symptoms, he doesn’t sweat alot, have heart burn, high cholesterol or has trouble breathing, nor has gain weight. I try to always keep him on a bicycle but riding with him but I’m still worried in th future.

Should I still strongly suggest him to see the doctors? He the age of 55.