MissySki
Angel Diva
So I may have found another reason for the fatigue I've been having recently. In the past I've had episodes, witnessed by DH, where I'll wake up gasping for air. Since it was always quite sporadic I never got checked out with a sleep study for sleep apnea or some other issue with breathing at night. Thinking more about it I'm realizing that it's been happening more often lately that I'll vaguely remember in the morning that I woke up in the middle of the night from this. I'll wake up from what seemed to be a dead sleep and bolt straight upright to hunched over the side of my bed in a panic trying to breathe in because it feels like I've been holding my breath for who knows how long and my heart is racing. I think since it happens in the middle of the night and then once I catch my breath I lay down and fall right back asleep I haven't really given it the attention it deserves and kind of forget about it the next day.
So I called my doctor this morning and she wants me to come in tomorrow so we can discuss what's been happening and if I should setup a sleep study. I just hope it happens during the sleep study if I do one because I'm not sure whether it happens every night or not. I know I don't remember consciously waking up every night..
I have GERD and years ago before I was diagnosed was when I had the worst cases of waking up like this, once I was diagnosed and on medicine it improved a lot so I thought it had to do with that and never pursued it further. It's been years now and I've somewhat been able to reduce my GERD meds without issue, so I wonder if that is causing a flare up right now that I've been unaware of. The reason my GERD took so long to be diagnosed at the time was because it was silent and my only symptom was shortness of breath ALL the time day and night. I was "diagnosed" with many other things that proved to be incorrect before we got to GERD. Yesterday I started feeling a little short of breath during the day again just sitting around and it's here again today, so definitely going to go back to taking medicine twice per day rather than once to see if that helps. It freaks me out to get this symptom again as it was a really crappy time that affected quality of life and what activities I could do greatly. Of course this time I'm not starting from square one so that's a plus!
My cardio workouts have been terrible last week and this week, not that my cardio is ever great, but I have to admit it's worse than normal and feels like such a struggle to catch my breath so something is going on. I didn't even try running yesterday because I know it wouldn't have been pretty. Hoping hot yoga tonight doesn't exacerbate things as heat and humidity don't seem to make things better usually and everything that happened with this years ago is actually when my real hatred of heat and humidity making me feel physically ill started. I'm hoping concentrating on my breathing there will be helpful instead, we'll see.
Regardless, I've of course been trying to diagnose myself online for the nighttime breathing stuff and freaking myself out, so it's time to further explore it with my doctor at least.
DH is also worried enough to insist I talk to my doctor, he told me this morning that he's been waking up at night to make sure I'm breathing which is all sorts of creepy and stressful that I don't want him having to worry about..
So I called my doctor this morning and she wants me to come in tomorrow so we can discuss what's been happening and if I should setup a sleep study. I just hope it happens during the sleep study if I do one because I'm not sure whether it happens every night or not. I know I don't remember consciously waking up every night..
I have GERD and years ago before I was diagnosed was when I had the worst cases of waking up like this, once I was diagnosed and on medicine it improved a lot so I thought it had to do with that and never pursued it further. It's been years now and I've somewhat been able to reduce my GERD meds without issue, so I wonder if that is causing a flare up right now that I've been unaware of. The reason my GERD took so long to be diagnosed at the time was because it was silent and my only symptom was shortness of breath ALL the time day and night. I was "diagnosed" with many other things that proved to be incorrect before we got to GERD. Yesterday I started feeling a little short of breath during the day again just sitting around and it's here again today, so definitely going to go back to taking medicine twice per day rather than once to see if that helps. It freaks me out to get this symptom again as it was a really crappy time that affected quality of life and what activities I could do greatly. Of course this time I'm not starting from square one so that's a plus!
My cardio workouts have been terrible last week and this week, not that my cardio is ever great, but I have to admit it's worse than normal and feels like such a struggle to catch my breath so something is going on. I didn't even try running yesterday because I know it wouldn't have been pretty. Hoping hot yoga tonight doesn't exacerbate things as heat and humidity don't seem to make things better usually and everything that happened with this years ago is actually when my real hatred of heat and humidity making me feel physically ill started. I'm hoping concentrating on my breathing there will be helpful instead, we'll see.
Regardless, I've of course been trying to diagnose myself online for the nighttime breathing stuff and freaking myself out, so it's time to further explore it with my doctor at least.
DH is also worried enough to insist I talk to my doctor, he told me this morning that he's been waking up at night to make sure I'm breathing which is all sorts of creepy and stressful that I don't want him having to worry about..