Rodshealth is a blog about my health and things about health that interest me. Hopefully, more about things that interest me than about my health. My health is actually very good, which is a good thing for those wanting to learn about other things.

I have sleep apnea that was diagnosed in September 2009, and is now being treated effectively with plain old continuous positive pressure (CPAP). I never knew that my snoring and tiredness during the day could be anything dangerous. I thought it was because I was not getting enough sleep each night, and because I was stressed because of work. Wrong! Wrong!

I woke up on the bathroom floor one morning after passing out. I was in a pool of blood. Scared the heck out of me. Scared the heck out of my wife. Upset my son having to get up so early to go to the hospital. Upset me having to have 20 stitches in my forehead. Upset the docs, because they couldn’t find a cause for it.

I am not excessively overweight (I would like to lose about another 10-15 pounds). I was exercising every day until a little while before this happening. After several tests including a head and neck MRI and various heart tests  (they found nothing), the only thing only thing they could think of was to have a sleep study. Result was, I now sleep with a machine every night.

Took a bit of getting used to, but I will not sleep without my CPAP machine if I can possibly avoid it.

More on my story of sleep apnea later.