Sleep apnea degrades your quality of life tremendously. Even when treated with CPAP you can still have pretty poor sleep due to the mask shifting around while you sleep and other side effects of the treatment, but it's generally much better than the torture of untreated apnea. It's so bad that even with moderate apnea you wake up more tired than when you went to bed.
Now allow me a preemptive reply: I suffered apnea with a BMI below 20. Plenty of people don't have apnea because they are overweight; instead, they are overweight because they suffer apnea.
Now allow me a preemptive reply: I suffered apnea with a BMI below 20. Plenty of people don't have apnea because they are overweight; instead, they are overweight because they suffer apnea.