I’m a black female, 47, recently gained a lot of weight due to some medications I’m on, but I’m not really obese. A year ago, I realized I’d become lactose intolerant. It got so bad a few months ago, I took dairy out of my diet completely unless I took Lactaid. I got lax recently and noted something: during the two recent periods where I allowed myself a lot of dairy without the supplement, I had something like sleep apnea. When falling asleep, I would snort, make odd noise that would cause me to wake up, and my throat often felt mucousy. Normally, I don’t have this. Someone (not a doctor) once told me a long time ago that many people of African descent are lactose intolerant, and that it causes excess mucous. Is that likely what’s going on with me? I seem to breathe and sleep better when I leave off the dairy.
I guess the most salient point here is that I never had anything resembling sleep apnea in the past, nor do I have those symptoms now unless I do the dairy.

The person is sleeping reasonable hours. They fall asleep (against their will) while watching TV, writing a letter on the computer, etc.

also slow blood circelation

i’ve had insomnia for little more then 6 months, wasn’t bad enough to get the cpap machine, well i came down with sinusitus about 5 days ago, and ever sence i’ve had trouble sleeping, like either i sleep a little or i dont at all.. dr’s perscribed me Zolpidem to sleep but that only let me sleep for a good 3-4 hours, they also perscribed me antibiotics Omixicilin for infection, and Prednisone for my asthma, wich the prednisone kinda made my breathing a little better so i thought i’d sleep a little better ( wich i kinda do but not a whole lot) and i’ve been taking that in the morning cause i know it can make you stay up. but i think this is causing anxiety too.. cause i kinda freak out that i cant sleep so i get all worried and stuff.. and i’m really tired i just want to sleep.. i’m getting a sleep study done soon so i can get a machine.. but i wanted to know what i could do mean time. it’s really starting to get to me.

Vetrans claim?

He has not been diagnosed but over the past year his snoring has gotten worse and worse. Nothing seems to help it. Sleep apnea never even crossed my mind but I read an article called “are you snoring yourself to death?” (I even think it was on Yahoo) and it was about sleep apnea. I thought he was waking himself up snoring but after researching I now know it’s his breathing stopping and then him gasping the air back in, making the loud snoring noise I thought was waking him up. He’s been in for a little over a year and it has just gotten worse and worse. I feel horrible because he has huge black circles under his eyes and he’s just so beat down all the time. He gets up so early and we’re at an infantry division so he’s doing a lot of physical activity, plus getting off late almost every day. He’s a 35N, do you think something like sleep apnea would keep him from doing his job? We aren’t noticing any other problems besides him being so very tired every day no matter how long he sleeps. He refuses to see a doctor because he doesn’t want to be discharged. I’ve read conflicting stories about this. I can’t convince him to see a doctor because he’s worried if it’s even mentioned in his medical files they will kick him out. He is actually still on profile from having rhabdomyolysis due to being overworked at PT. So that just makes it worse considering even that can get you medically discharged. I’m worried about his health. Any advice appreciated. Thanks
i know it’s serious and that’s why i am so worried. what if he stopped breathing for too long? it makes me want to stay up all night and watch him. i’m buying the chin strap thing for him that’s supposed to help.
also i know he’d get disability, but i’ve heard it’s only 50%.

I also have enlarged tonsils, which I know can be a part of sleep apnea. A CT Scan found all these other problems–can they be a part of the sleep apnea?