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1. I was told I was "too young, too thin and too female" to have sleep apnea

Reply to McCamy Taylor (Original post)

Mon Apr 23, 2012, 06:51 PM

Apr 2012

By the time someone took me seriously, I was hallucinating (technically, onset of REM while awake), blacking out mid-word and behind the wheel of my car, and felt like I was living in hell. My O2 sat was 65% and I had the highest AHI ever seen at that hospital. I was 33 then, and I have mixed (central and obstructive) sleep apnea.

Not fibromyalgia. Not chronic fatigue.

Something that came very close to killing me.

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Sleep apnea---the most commonly missed common problem in the US. [View all] McCamy Taylor Apr 2012 OP

I was told I was "too young, too thin and too female" to have sleep apnea REP Apr 2012 #1

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