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To anyone that has depression. Is it true that your sleep is worse because of it? Have you found a solution to your sleeping problems? If not how do you deal with your tiredness? I have depression, and I'm trying to see if this is the only reason my sleep is horrible.
I have noticed that I do have dreams every night.
I bought the sleep apnea machine from a former dr. by the way. .//
There is this guy on ESPN named Ryen Russilo, and with his sleeping problems that he described sounded exactly the same as mine. He said he wakes up a lot, never gets good sleep, and has weird sleeping patterns. But he said he refuses to get help because it is uncool to him.
WiredGeorge- Thank you for your support. The next time I get a sleep test it will be through another dr. for sure. Like I said they said snoring was my problem, but I fixed my snoring completely . I listened to their advice but I still sleep badly. So from what I can tell the first Sleep Dr.s findings were incorrect.
Things seem really hopeless right now, but hopefully I can get this fixed.
Here is another suggestion. Why then do I sleep badly every single night? Why did the dr.s suggestions not work every time even though I was fully comitted to every option. There has to be something that is logical that is being missed. I really hope my sleep apnea machine will solve it. I'm determined to find the solution and to finally live a normal life.
Many of my family members on both sides have sleeping problems as well. The oldest, my grandpa has had sleeping problems all his life and he is 80. He wakes up repeatedly like I do, and is never fully rested.
I appreciate everyone's advice. I go to sleep and wake up repeatedly throughout the night. It seems like it has to do with oxygen being closed off. It really seems like sleep apnea, how it could it not be? There has to be an explanation. I have also read many things online that say that insomnia can be caused by sleep apnea. I think my breathing is too shallow or being closed off while I sleep.
I might do another sleep study in the future but I spent so much of my savings already. So It might not be soon. I will have to save more money up. I also plan on tweaking my sleep apnea machine to see if it will help me. I well try to use lower pressure.
Sorry for all the posts. Is it possible I could have central sleep apnea?
I'm trying to look at my problem in a different way. I have always slept badly even when I was super skinny, but my gf at the time said I snored. I breathed through my mouth back then. So was it the snoring that caused my bad sleeping then? If I had combined taping my mouth to breathe through nose, and being super skinny that time would I have eliminated my sleep problem? Right now I use the tape method, but I'm not super skinny. Would that prevent the breathing through my nose from working? I probably weigh 175-185 now.
The way the results were given they just called me over the phone and an assistant read the report to me.
I fell asleep very late in the test time because I have trouble sleeping in new places. I remember waking up several times and then not going back to sleep on the final time i woke up. I felt horrible as always. I wrote on the paper they gave me rating my sleep. I suggested that I probably had sleep apnea. The results came in a week later they said that I woke up a certain number of times but it was still below the apnea mark. They suggested I see a nose and throat dr., and I did but that did help at all. I believe that because I fell asleep much later than normal that reduced the amount of times I woke up, because there wasn't much time left in the study.
I followed the advice of the nose and throat dr. but the oral appliances did not work. I still woke up a lot and felt terrible all the time. My insurance paid for most of the test when I was 25, but I no longer have insurance, and I spent a lot of money on oral appliances, sleep apnea masks, and machine. I did not talk to the insurance company about their refusal, but looking back I should have! I never got to speak to the main dr. face to face. I have no idea if that is normal. I could have went to a dr. that isn't very good. He has two separate jobs at the same time. So maybe he isnt focusing on his sleep dr. role as much.
Do you think there still could be a strong possibility that I have sleep apnea? It is almost a year since the test and I still have trouble sleeping every night. What should be my next course of action? I spent so much money trying to fix my problem but it still persists. Thanks for your time.
