Anyone here with sleep apnea who has had strokes? I need information about it.?

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I'm not sure how extensive your side effects of your stroke is. but with sleep apnea, which is the absence of breathing while you are sleeping. usually you are a loud snorer, you have daytime sleepiness, and your oxygen saturation drops at night, partly because you stop breathing at night, while you are sleeping. this is treated sometimes with oxygen, sometimes with a clearway oral device, but mostly with a machine called a CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure). this machine continuously sends air into your airway with a mask that is worn on the head while you are sleeping, and this will keep your airway open at night. if you think you have this, you need to check with your family Dr, and they will know where to send you to have what is called a sleep study. that will determine if you have this. then a CPAP would be prescribed, and a second test would be ordered to see which setting to set it on. this has improved many lives, good luck to you, and god bless you.