Interesting. I bet close to all young skinny people with sleep apnea must remain undiagnosed.
My generalist doc basically said "if you really insist we can do a polysomnography, but I'm pretty sure you don't have it, you're young, skinny and sporty. There isn't really much that helps that you can do about it anyway".
I did insist and it turned out that I do have it. The changes in life I experienced are similar to yours. The doc's advice was double wrong in my case.
Some other interesting thing I noticed: there seems to be something messed up about medical diagnosis equipment. At least in sleep apnea.
I've done about 5 "sleep tests" in different countries with different equipment and the results varied between 0, a few 5-6 and one with 15 events per hour (no apnea, mild apnea and "medium"? apnea). The 0 to 6 where with portable "take home" devices, the 15 was a more serious feeling expensive looking in-hospital device with tons of wiring all over the body.
So in short: the same patient can be cured and pretty severly suffering at the same time?!
I'm not sure what's going on there but it smells like corruption in medical devices like that one Netflix documentary talks about. It was an episode of "dirty money" if I remember correctly.
My generalist doc basically said "if you really insist we can do a polysomnography, but I'm pretty sure you don't have it, you're young, skinny and sporty. There isn't really much that helps that you can do about it anyway".
I did insist and it turned out that I do have it. The changes in life I experienced are similar to yours. The doc's advice was double wrong in my case.
Some other interesting thing I noticed: there seems to be something messed up about medical diagnosis equipment. At least in sleep apnea.
I've done about 5 "sleep tests" in different countries with different equipment and the results varied between 0, a few 5-6 and one with 15 events per hour (no apnea, mild apnea and "medium"? apnea). The 0 to 6 where with portable "take home" devices, the 15 was a more serious feeling expensive looking in-hospital device with tons of wiring all over the body.
So in short: the same patient can be cured and pretty severly suffering at the same time?!
I'm not sure what's going on there but it smells like corruption in medical devices like that one Netflix documentary talks about. It was an episode of "dirty money" if I remember correctly.