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Originally Posted by Woogieman
Not necessarily. There are two types of sleep apnea, the common type which typically accompanies obesity, but my brother in law has it and has never been over 160 lbs. The other type is central apnea (what I have) which is a bizarre synapse malfunction where the brain stops sending signals to lungs to breathe when you are sleeping....nothing to do with weight. Those sleep tests do a pretty good job of delineating how much of you r apnea is due to weight issues vs central apnea.
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My wife and son keep telling me i do this. I know my Dad did it cause i heard it a lot growing up. That silence followed by a gasp of air. So now my son is trying to guilt me into doing something about it. I'm probably not educated enough on it since i figured, since i'm almost 58, don't take any scrips, have perfect blood pressure and low resting heart rate and never feel fatigued and i work out regularly, it's not really a big deal.