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spinbaby

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10. Women have different symptoms, too

Reply to REP (Reply #7)

Mon Dec 26, 2011, 01:16 PM

Dec 2011

Men tend to be sleepy; women tend to be irritable insomniacs. Also, women tend to have upper airway resistance syndrome that interrupts sleep without showing up as frank apnea. I had it for decades--but didn't have apnea on a sleep study--and was told that I was depressed (not sleeping will certainly depress you) before finally being diagnosed and put on a CPAP. Now I can finally sleep without waking up all night long.

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Warning! Your Police Officer's Sleep Disorder May Be Hazardous to Your Health [View all] McCamy Taylor Dec 2011 OP

It's not just police officers. Sleep disorders are misdiagnosed or go undiagnosed in every Brickbat Dec 2011 #1

I suffer from sleep apnea... CoffeeCat Dec 2011 #2

I am just curious but Skittles Dec 2011 #5

Sure, I don't NEED a program... CoffeeCat Dec 2011 #8

It is seriously under diagnosed in women REP Dec 2011 #7

YES... CoffeeCat Dec 2011 #9

Women have different symptoms, too spinbaby Dec 2011 #10

sleep is all. mopinko Dec 2011 #3

Yes, police are people, with dangerous stressful jobs. That only 40% have a sleep disorder Skip Intro Dec 2011 #4

Police officer isn't even in the top ten of dangerous jobs.. Fumesucker Dec 2011 #6

CNN says different - Skip Intro Dec 2011 #11

Police officer is number 11 on that list.. Fumesucker Dec 2011 #12

Um, no, it isn't. Skip Intro Dec 2011 #13