I have been involved with people who have sleep apnea. They do not present as the typical overweight alcohol drinking man who snores. They are women who are petite who happen to stop breathing many times while sleeping. I recently went with my mother to her sleep study where she was Dx'd. Apparently many,many people (according to the sleep technician) are Dx'd with MI when they actually have apnea and don't even know it. They are not typical "snorers" like most people think of with the term "apnea" Because of my mom's apnea Dx, I did some research and found that there is something that needs to be looked into even when we think we are sleeping. Some latent symptoms of apnea include depression, moodiness, headaches, daydreaming/dissociation, memory problems and other things that we might usually say is our supposed Dx of a MI.

I think this sleep study stuff should be used in really figuring out if we are getting proper sleep. I know a person who said she always slept well, or so she thought, but since she was already being tested for brain issues and neuro- problems, she requested the sleep study. It found she stopped breathing 58 times during REM sleep and something like 30 times during non- REM sleep.

Before my bf got Dx'd with apnea, he claimed to sleep well, but I knew he snored like a freight train and I constantly had to wake him up because he'd stop breathing. During the day he would nod off while having coversations, his eyes would glaze over like he was on dope, he had mood swings and strange thoughts and memory problems.

It's bad enough for people who have obvious insomnia but I think there are many of us with apnea who don't realize it and it affects our mental health in a radical way.

What was an eye opener for me too, was when the technician at the sleep center said she had witnessed many kids on ADHD treatment with stimulants be Dx'd with apnea. When treated with the CPAP sleep device, the kids completely recover from the supposed Dx of ADHD.