Lack of sleep
DH and I just starting wearing things that track health info including a breakdown of how well you slept. DH used his for the first time last night. (I know friends of the people who started this wearable and are in the business and say it's accurate.) He and I were shocked at how little deep sleep he got. Like nearly nothing. And he's the one telling me we have to sleep in the same bed/room and I've been the one telling him he's keeping me from getting a good nights sleep. Sleeping separately and his numbers are bad and my numbers are great. Proof! I feel vindicated and I didn't even know it would go that way.
And lack of deep sleep also means your brain doesn't spend time washing out the gunk (really) and that impairs memory and lack of deep sleep can be a sign and instigator of dementia (and I've long suspected DH has memory problems even though he's not all that old, he already barely passed the standard memory test for dementia...yes the one with the elephant and remembering words).
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Does he have sleep apnea?
Does he have sleep apnea?
He got tested once with an in home
Monitor and it said no. BUT, the man can snore sitting up! He can fall asleep at the drop of a hat. He sometimes stops breathing. From being the other person in the room all night--I think he does. I'm hoping there's enough data after a few weeks to show a doctor.
Yeah, he should ask for a
Yeah, he should ask for a second opinion. My BIL was briefly in the ICU and the monitors for his breathing kept going off all night, which is how he got diagnosed. We had joked about his snoring for 20 years prior. He says he feels so much better now with the machine.
I had a coworker go in for a sleep test
Years ago and they are only supposed to monitor but his blood ox went so low that they went in several times to wake him and give him oxygen. The dude was gray. When I saw him again, about a month after he got the CPAP he looked amazing. Peachy skin, lost weight, bright-eyed. Happy.
So does my mom
My mom is in her early 70s and started using a CPAP a couple of years ago, and it has helped her feel a LOT better. She didn't realize how little true sleep she had been getting as her body struggled to get air, and now she wakes up feeling rested and refreshed. She has the latest-greatest, super-quiet CPAP that she said was expensive but worth it.
I was told the same thing and
I was told the same thing and went for a sleep study at 40 years of age. Turns out I've got wicked sleep apnea, where the doctor said she'd pull my drivers license if I didn't use a cpap machine. He needs to get checked again. This is dangerous.
Agreed
Agreed
Once he gets the sleep issues
Once he gets the sleep issues under control, have the memory issue retested. If the sleep issue were the problem, his scores should either stay the same or go up. If they don't go up a visit to the neurologist is in order. (A younger person's memory issue can be early onset.)
He should definitely see an
He should definitely see an ear, nose, and throat doctor to find out if there are any problems with the structure of his nose or sinuses and to request a sleep study. My DH struggled with lack of sleep and fatigue for years, and snored terribly. A sleep study revealed that he stopped breathing many times during the night, and he was prescribed a CPAP machine. Next, imaging revealed he had a diviated septum and polyps in his sinuses. He had corrective surgery, and now breathes and sleeps much better.
The CPAP machine took a little getting used to, but I find the low whooshing soothing white noise. When DH was in the hospital recently, I actually missed the sound of it.
Sleep problems can kill - look up Reggie White, the NFL player who died of sleep apnea. He was in fantastic shape, and only 43.