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Anybody else dealing with sleep apnea?

chiromommyMichellechiromommyMichelle member
in 3rd Trimester
All that mucous membrane inflammation we've all been dealing with down below and up in the sinuses has recently taken over my throat.  Two months ago it started with ridiculous snoring, sometimes loud enough to wake me up, and often enough to drive one or the other of us to another room during the night to have a prayer of a night's sleep.  Well, late last week, it got so bad that now it's actually stopping my breathing from time to time...I'm now averaging about 45 min of sleep before I wake up, then up for about the same time before I can fall asleep again.   The only thing that seemed to help was a Vick's inhaler and saline nasal spray to take a little of the inflammation down.  A little online research found that this is pretty rare, only about 2-5% percent of pregnant women, just wondering if anybody else is dealing with it?  Calling the OB at 9 to see what they recommend!
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Re: Anybody else dealing with sleep apnea?

  • LeelaHLeelaH

    My husband won't even sleep on the same floor of the house as me anymore because of my "snoring and snorting" all night.  He has been sleeping in the guest bedroom upstairs.  I don't get much more than an hour of uninterrupted sleep, so I probably have sleep apnea too.  I'm not too concerned since I only have to deal with it for two more weeks, but I'm ridiculously tired all the time.  Let us know what your doc says...I'm anxious to see if there is anything that we can do.

     

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  • cagreerancagreeran
    I'm stuffy and use the Saline spray and the breathe right strips, nothing like what you are dealing with. DH,however, has sleep apnea, he has been using his cpap machine for a couple months now. Now I'm so used to it I can't sleep well w/out him using it. It has helped him a lot tho. Between the two of us, him w/ his cpap mask and his mouth guard to stop his teeth grinding and me w/ my breathe right strip and mouth guard also for teeth grinding our LO is going to be terrified for night feedings because her parents look like aliens!
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  • heather121184heather121184
    My husband has sleep apnea. When he sleeps on his left side it helps a lot, but his sleep apnea is due to a deviated septum. Sometimes those breathe right nose strips combined with some saline spray before bed works. When the doctors put him on sleep meds (he did ambien once and elavil 10mg once) it only made it worse.
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  • neenee03neenee03
    I have sleep apnea, I had it before I was pregnant so i already have my cpap machine that I where every night and everything but it gets worse with pregnancy.  I had ot go through the whole sleep clinic to be diagnosed with it.  The saline spray is good, and you said a vicks inhaler, but have you ever tried a nonwater vicks vaporizer.  It is about 10 bucks at walgreens or target (that is where I found it) and you get these little vicks cartridges to put in it.  It helps, it makes your room s,ell liek vicks but it helps.  also it help me to lay on my right side. if I start to get stuffy I lay on my right and it clears up. 
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