- Yeah guys.
Hope you're having an awesome weekend wherever you are.
I'm just kicking back here, it's Saturday in Melbourne.
And just thought I'd do a little video
on just some of the signs,
some of the things to look out for
if maybe yourself or someone you know
if you think they might have sleep apnea.
It's really one of those conditions
that flies under the radar.
And it's highly underdiagnosed because obviously
all this stuff is happening at nighttime when we're asleep.
And unless we sort of have someone next to us,
who's sort of watching us going,
"Come on mate, you gotta breathe,"
you know, a lot of the time it does go underdiagnosed.
So these are some real key indicators,
things to look out for and I'm just gonna run
through the list, all right.
So the first one is loud snoring.
So you've heard that saying,
where there's smoke, there's fire,
and if sleep apnea is the fire,
then certainly loud, disruptive snoring is the smoke.
The next one is excessive daytime sleepiness.
So just feeling knackered all the time.
If you're someone who's when you're driving,
you feel like you always wanna fall asleep,
especially at the traffic lights or with your in traffic,
or whenever you sit down on the couch, you know,
in the evening time when you're watching the news (snorts),
that's excessive daytime sleepiness.
Unless you're a nana,
you shouldn't need to have nana naps
of the daytime just to get by.
The next one is if you ever wake up sort of choking
or having that gasping sensation, you know,
if your heart's racing and you sort of wake up having
like those sweats and those little panic attacks almost,
that's a key indicator that something's going on.
Or obviously if anyone ever says to you, you know,
"Did you know you hold your breath in the nighttime?"
As soon as someone says that to you,
you can pretty much just mark it off in the book
that you have sleep apnea.
It'll just be a matter of how severe it is.
The next one, what we call nocturia
or frequent toilet visits during the night time.
If you're someone who gets up
and goes to the toilet two or three times a night,
there could be some underlying sleep apnea going on.
Morning headaches, dry throat, that dry raspy throat,
that's another big one as well.
Morning headaches because of the low blood oxygen content.
So from when we holding our breath
and there's not much oxygen getting in.
And obviously a dry throat from all that (snorts),
that sort of a thing.
So dry raspy throat is a big one.
If you're having difficulty concentrating
and you're always forgetful,
if your mind's not sharp
and you're just feeling a bit,
I call it the sleep apnea fog,
where you're just in this sort of hazy fog.
Your sleep is so fragmented due to all the interruptions
because of the sleep apnea that your brain's
just not getting that recharge of the nighttime.
It's not getting the sleep that it needs.
And so because of that, it's hard to focus, all right.
So that's a tricky one because it's hard to know
whether or not we're just a bit slow
or whether or not there's something actually going on.
But if you constantly forgetting stuff
and you just have that real hard time solving problems
or working out things, or concentrating,
then that's another one.
Mood changes, depression, irritability,
if you're really short tempered all the time.
Now some of us have a short fuse, that's all right,
but if things are constantly getting on your nerves,
things that maybe shouldn't,
if you constantly always yelling at the driver,
forgot to go through the green light or whatever,
or your kids are constantly bugging you.
And you're just irritable all the time,
then have a look at your sleep
because there might be something going on.
We all know I've got a brand new baby at the moment.
So I know what it's like to have those
constant interruptions and have a really bad sleep,
and you know you are, you're just on edge,
everything bugs you.
So have a look at your mood.
Other health conditions, so other co-morbidities.
If you're someone who's got diabetes,
high blood pressure, you're overweight or obese,
or you've got cardiovascular disease,
any of those sort of conditions are generally correlated
heavily with sleep apnea.
So it's like that smoke with fire again, you know,
if you've got any of those conditions,
I just recommend you have a test and check it out.
And then last one, decreased sex drive or libido.
If your finding that you just don't wanna have sex,
or you've got no interest in it,
then maybe there might be something going on as well,
because let's be honest, we all should wanna do it,
and if you don't wanna do it,
maybe there's something to look at.
Anyway, I'll leave it at that guys.
Really short video, just something to look out for.
If you think there's something up
and you're wanting to do a real quick and easy screen,
just to have a look and see if there is something going on,
I can highly recommend going
and grabbing one of these little O2Rings.
What they do is they measure your blood oxygen level
continuously throughout the night.
And they'll give you a little graph and a little indicator
that says where you are in the scale,
whether you're red and there's something going on,
or whether you're green and your breathing's okay.
I've tested since I've got it about 20 people.
Most of them, my dad's mates,
and so far, three of them have severe,
very severe sleep apnea, there's no doubt.
I'll put the test results up at the end of this video.
Amazing way to screen yourself,
especially if you don't wanna be going and seeing the doctor
or booking in for a hospital sleep study,
or you don't wanna go to all the hassle.
If you just want a convenience screen, O2Ring.
Anyway, I will leave it at that.
I'm sure you've got better things to do
than watch me ramble on about sleep apnea.
So have a good day.
If you liked the video,
I always appreciate all those thumbs up and likes.
Until next time guys, have a great weekend
and I'll see you soon, bye.
Okay, so you're looking at my SpO2 results here.
So this is my blood oxygen levels throughout the night.
And you can see there's a couple of little periods
where I go below 90, but as a whole,
everything is kind of pretty stable and in the green.
And now we'll have a look at one of my dad's mates results
and you'll be able to see a big difference.
Alrighty, and here we have dad's mates results.
And as you can see,
there's just a massive difference between mine and his.
Dad actually went away camping with him
and shared a room and just said he got absolutely no sleep
because he was just rattling the walls all night.
But he had no idea what was going on,
he had no idea he had sleep apnea
and that's a very common sort of thing.
But as you can see here,
you've got all these red bars just coming down below 90,
below 80 actually hits 70% level oxygen levels,
which is extremely low.
Anything below 90 is not good at all.
So when you can see half the night he's spending
well below 90 and into the 70 range,
this is gonna lead to heart attacks
and cardiovascular problems, high blood pressure,
all sorts of nasty things.
But it's also just gonna make you feel
like rubbish during the day.
And there's gonna be a lot of snoring.
So once we get him sorted with a bit of treatment,
with some positive airway pressure,
he's gonna feel like an absolute brand new person.
Anyway, that's just sort of some of the test results
and you can sort of see quite clearly
the difference between someone who's breathing well,
that was me and dad's mate.
Cheers.