sleep paralysis apnea

Snoring does often accompany sleep apnea, but just because you snore does not mean you have sleep apnea and vice versa. Minor sleep apnea is responsive to self-help remedies such as losing weight, eliminating the use of alcohol, tobacco, and sedatives; sleeping on your side, and regularizing your sleep hours. It would be best to see a sleep specialist for proper management and to ease your worries. Take care and keep us posted.

I waited 18 years before talking to a doctor about my paralysis and one month later, I learned I have sleep apnea. Who know what 18 years of severe sleep apnea did to my heart, brain and organs. It would be worth your time to speak with an MD. The longer that apnea goes untreated, the more damage occurs to the body. Best of luck!

I had similar things happen to me, it was almost like I was so scared that I could not move, yell, or anything, I seemed paralyzed, I found that I had a severe case of sleep apnea, I would stop breathing and it caused a lot of tension. Are you sleeping well ? If you are waking up a lot or finding yourself very sleepy during the day, this could be what is going on. The Dr..

I'm not a medical professional but I've had the exact same symptoms for nearly 20 years. I don't hallucinate either. It is a terrifying experience to be paralyzed and to not be able to breathe. I had a sleep study done nearly a year ago and was diagnosed with central and obstructive sleep apnea. Since I started on my CPAP I haven't had one incidence of sleep paralysis. I don't know if apnea and sleep paralysis is linked. But I do know that I am much better.

I'm female, 15 years old, relativly healthy, so is the rest of my family. Average weight, average height and so on. (just in case that helps) I recently found out that these ..symptoms I've been having in my sleep is an actual sleeping disorder called sleep paralysis. I did reserch it and I found that most people expirience negative "dreams" during that time that sleep paralysis occured.

One being sleep apnea. I mention this condition because it is associated with a severe headache. Sleep apnea is more likely to occur in overweight people who snore but can occur in anyone. Symptoms also include snoring, daytime sleepiness, and lack of concentration. Untreated, sleep apnea can cause many medical problems, and with treatment many symptoms improve.

Several things could be going on, you could be experiencing night terrors, perhaps brought on by the added stress in your life, or it could be sleep apnea that can cause a variation of different symptoms. If this continues you should seek out advice from a medical provider.

It sounds like it could be sleep paralysis to me. I do that all the time. I thought it was "night terrors." I'm fully aware of everything around me, can hear and everything but can't scream out, can't move, nothing. I learned it was common with narcolepsy. You need to go see your primary care doctor and/or get a referral to a sleep specialist.

t experienced what you have but I recently saw a sleep apnea specialist a few months ago and he asked if I had ever experienced what you are describing. Don't quote me exactly but he mentioned something about a chemical or hormone that is released when we go through certain cycles in our sleep. The chemical or hormone is produced to protect us whilst we are sleeping. It basically stops us from physically carrying out what we are dreaming.

Went to the doctor. She says my stomach is inflamed. Sometimes when your stomach is sore you feel it in your back. It explains why the pain was there and gone there and gone, it was the grinding motion of my stomach. And why I felt nauseous with lots of watery saliva and an acidy oesophagus. The sleep paralysis/apnea and palpitations are either from stress or it's hereditary. Something i'll need to ask my family about. Cheers for the advise.

You might want to inquire about having a full sleep study to rule out sleep apnea and/or narcolepsy. The sleep paralysis, hallucinations, and daytime sleepiness are hallmarks of narcolepsy. Narcolepsy isn't just suddenly collapsing in a state of sleep. I tell you this not as a medical professional, but as a person with narcolepsy. Best wishes.

I take that back; I think I had an auditory hallucination last night. The same one twice. I didn't check to see if I could move or not until a few seconds later, though.

It sounds like you have what's called sleep paralysis. It especially happens when people sleep on their backs. Do a search online for "sleep paralysis" for more information.

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If you have any symptoms of sleep apnea, you may want to consider a sleep study. I have a friend who hallucinated much as you describe, and it turned out to be due to low oxygen during apnea events. Maybe you should talk to your doctor about it.

Could this be sleep apnea? My late-father had sleep apnea but he was overweight. (when he went to the sleep clinic he actually flatlined - very scary but the cpap machine worked wonders for him.) I would hate to waste the $$ to go to the doctor if it isn't something "real".

My personal experience is that I was having apnea events during REM when I had sleep paralysis. I have only experienced it once or twice since starting apnea therapy (CPAP) and have been able to correlate it with the data from my machine that, yup, I was having an apnea when it happened. Have you had a sleep study done? Do you have symptoms of apnea? It's worth checking out. I'm glad I did. I feel SO much better now.

There are other similar conditions that dont involve paralysis and are more experienced as a difficulty to become fully awake, where as sleep paralysis you are unable to move and think your awake, commonly waking up with high anxiety, which makes one feel alert. Sleep paralysis can also give feelings of impending doom. None the less you are not alone, both are fairly common.

Maybe do a little reading about sleep paralysis and then consider having a sleep study done. Honestly, when I got of the benzodiazepines, the worst of it stopped.

My doctor yesterday said i have GERD but told me to see if my breathing wont change maybe i already sleep apnea and basing from what i experience i think it is central sleep apnea. Whenever i start feeling asleep and going to the 1st stage of sleep i suddenly stop breathing and it wakes me right after.

Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder is characterized by excessive day time sleepiness, sleep paralysis, cataplexy where the person has episodes of loss of muscle function while awake, hypnogogic hallucinations and automatic behavior. Narcolepsy is diagnosed by the sleep onset REM episodes (SOREMs), wherein the person goes into the dream phase or REM cycle soon after sleep onset. This is evident in the Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT). It can however be regulated with medications.

I was told by a sleep disorder doctor that tested me for sleep apnea that I didn't have sleep apnea but it was narcolepsy. He never told me what I needed to do about it. Do you also know if people with this disorder have periods of sleep walking. I have walked in my sleep from time to time since I was a child but it seems to have suddenly multiplied in the last few years. I am now 56 and have had some very life changing events in my life during these last 3-4 years.

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