Jmdt - I have horrible insomnia and they finally decided to do a sleep study on me (ugh, I despise sleep studies
) - bc btwn Jan 09 and Oct 09, I was sleeping about 2-4 hours a night. I was, and still am, underweight (due to all the stress) - so they all thought "no way on the apnea, but let's just do the study" bc nothing they tried could get me to sleep. On that note, btw, it does turn out that 50% of people who *have* apnea are of normal weight - so this means there are a lot of people who have apnea, but are undiagnosed bc the misconception is that it is mostly seen in higher weight people.
So anyway, turns out, I do have it. Luckily, it's mild/moderate. Depending upon the severity and the cause (specifically) of the apnea, another option for apnea is dental appliances - and this is what I use, bc there was no way I'd be able to sleep w/ a CPAP. So, I have the
Somnomed MAS Flex. I started using it mid-December. So convenient!
I had my follow-up sleep study to test efficacy, and I had 0 apnea events during the study
. So, don't know if your husband's diagnosis would have an option for this, but thought I'd mention it. I'm so glad he is getting this figured out, bc apnea can really be dangerous. Please keep us posted
.