Snoring

If you snore, I highly suggest you get yourself tested for sleep apnea. Finally, after all these years I'll be hitting my sleep test next week which is more a formality for the insurance company as I feel 100% I suffer from sleep apnea.

So, what was the tipping point for going to see the ENT? Memory loss. Over the last 6 months or so I've found an increasing inability to focus and would find myself entering a room forgetting what I was going in there to do or get.

At 42, I went on both cholesterol and high blood pressure medicine. The cholesterol I had at least noticed could be controlled by exercise. However, I also found that no matter how hard I tried, I just seemed to lack the energy to get started which is both another consequence of sleep apnea and a wonderful conundrum: need to exercise in order to get my energy up but couldn't get the energy to start exercising.

I had a huge problem accepting the blood pressure issue. I felt my father's stroke 12 yrs ago was self inflicted with eating unhealthy, smoking and drinking since he was a teenager. My PC physician, after monitoring determined it's probably hereditary. However, now that I know more about sleep apnea perhaps it's not hereditary after all.

Now, I've recently read about the memory loss issue. Not cool. So, if you snore...get checked out....