by Maria LaPiana
Ann R. of Fairfied was just on the other side of 50 when she first became aware of her sleep. It happened while she was awake.
“I noticed I was dragging all day. I had no energy, and had to take a nap every single day,” she remembers. “It got so I didn’t want to run errands and I started avoiding people because I was too tired to talk to anyone. It got worse. I found I was eating all the wrong things just for the sugar boost.”
It wasn’t until Ann started snoring (“My husband told me it was getting louder but I didn’t believe it until I started waking myself up during the night”) that she put two and too-little sleep together.
She saw her primary care physician and was tested “for all kinds of things—anemia, low blood sugar, etc.” But when those tests all came back negative, they began to explore the possibility that she might have a sleep disorder. Consequently, she saw a specialist who performed a series of diagnostic tests, including overnight observation in a sleep “lab.”
http://www.connecticutmag.com/Connecticut-Magazine/August-2011/Senior-Living-Sleep-Sliding-Away/
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