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Sleep apnea/night terrors?

wren444wren444
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I am 11 weeks and just started having the craziest thing develop. I wake suddenly from a sound sleep and my immediate thought is that I've died - no actually that everyone has died. The whole world stands still for that instant. It's terrifying. I gasp for breathe and come into full consciousness and my heart is racing. It's over as quickly as it started. The first few times I thought we'd been nuked or electrocuted or something, but the more frequently it happens I seems to recognize it quicker and just go to breathing through it.

It happened first last Thursday, twice Friday, twice Tuesday and like 10x's last night!! Needless to say I am not sleeping well.

 The only thing I can figure is that I've suddenly developed sleep apnea...because it seems like I am not breathing when I wake and the breathing is what my body needs. Anyone ever dealt with anything like this? Is there a reason why shifting hormones would make me relax so much I'd stop breathing? I asked my doc and she said to try a humidifier, if that doesn't work I'll probably go for a sleep study.

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  • SunidazeSunidaze member
    I did not experience what you have, however, in the beginning (like first tri) of my pregnancy, I experienced the most vivid dreams ever.  Actually, they were nightmares.  On more than one occasion I woke up screaming or DH would wake me up because I was screaming in my sleep.  It eventually went away.
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    I have a lot of allergy and sinus problems and I had every symptom of sleep apnea. I did a sleep study and to everyone's surprise, I didn't stop breathing once. I never had any nightmares associated with it. I would guess that you're probably so emotionally worked up from the nightmare, that your breathing is just tense until you calm it down. Or perhaps if you're sleeping on your back, you need to move to sleeping on your side? 
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  • wren444wren444
    I don't sleep on my back ever usually, but many of the times I have woken up more on my back then normal (lower body is still on my side)...but last night it was clearly happening just as often on my side. Usually more of a belly sleeper, but gave that up a few weeks ago. And I don't really have any risk factors for apnea - no sinus issues, not overweight, DH says I don't snore. The nightmare is really what goes through my mind as I wake...I realize that sounds weird but it is almost an instantaneous experience - kind of like waking to a loud sound and you're brain is trying to register what it was...my brain registers death and then i gasp for air and its over...super freaky. And I haven't had any recent trauma/stress that is out of the ordinary. Thanks for any insights...
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  • hoopduckhoopduck member
    I don't know much of anything about sleep apnea but I am very familiar with night terrors. I was adopted as a 10 month old infant, and my Mother told me that from the first night in their home until I started Kindergarten, I would wake up screaming every night at exactly 2 am. She still wakes up at the same time every night, from getting into that habit when I was young. She took me to a few different doctors and sleep specialists, and I was diagnosed with night terrors. One of the major things for me about them - I never ever remembered what those night terrors were about. My parents would gently comfort me and I would immediately return to deep slumber, all without waking. I don't know if it's the same in all cases of night terrors, but that's what mine were like. It doesn't sound like you have them to me, but if this is really freaking you out than maybe you should make an appointment with your doctor and find out if this is something to look into. 
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