I am so anxious. Recently I’ve done an at home sleep test after my dentist told me my Bruxism probably pointed to sleep apnea. Got my results that said “Severe” with a score of 30.8 and went to the sleep doctor today and they said that according to those results I have obstructive and non-obstructive sleep apnea. I have to go back and get a sleep study done still, but I have gone down the rabbit hole of trying to figure out why my body does not breathe at night and I’m terrified of Google now. It goes without saying, but I absolutely have no energy, and I can barely stay awake (have been w/o energy for as long as I remember, but it has progressively gotten worse as I have aged.) I am 5’4 around 155 pounds, and I have had sleep issues for as long as I can remember. I also have moderate scoliosis that makes it hard for me to be comfortable sleeping at night. I guess I am just posting for advice, a shared experience, or someone to tell me that it’s going to be okay, & not feeling like my whole youth has been wasted due to lack of energy and potential irreversible damage to my brain stem. My stepdad has given me his ResMed to use in the meantime (it has been reprogrammed in the MyAir app to use my statistics from my at home test) but the sleep doctor said it may not even be affective with the type of apneas I have. I have been diagnosed with MDD, ADHD, and I don’t even know what is real and what is not anymore when it comes to my diagnoses now… I am graduating college next week, but because of this I can’t even think about anything else because I have to wait two weeks for insurance to approve my study.
I would love to hear what y’all think.