Reddit reviews Sleep, Interrupted: A physician reveals the #1 reason why so many of us are sick and tired
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No doctor did. They all give up so easily. Sadly, you have to be your own doctor. I had a lot of problems, gastroparesis being just one of them, and I couldn't get any doctor to take interest in them. I couldn't figure out what was causing them so I started making rounds between all the specialties, pursuing any abnormality I could find. Along the way, a neurology fellow mentioned that my serum bicarb was elevated and said I could have sleep apnea. I pleaded with my primary care physician, got the study, and sure enough it was positive - very positive.
Later I figured out what the connection was. No studies here to my knowledge, though Dr Park describes the connection between sleep apnea and GERD in his book Sleep, Interrupted, a great read. I can trace pretty much everything back to sleep apnea now and that can be traced back to untreated allergies growing up (my turbinates are still huge).
About 15 years ago I had two episodes like that. Shrugged them off. 10 years later I was horribly sick with all kinds of problems. Turns out I had sleep apnea and pretty severe at that. I'm skinny with a generous airway so every doctor I've seen has scratched their heads. Point is, you may be a hypochondriac but you should rule it out.
Sleep apnea is a strong risk factor for anxiety and depression btw. Check Pubmed. Or read Sleep, Interrupted by Dr Steven Park. He thinks it's such a common risk factor that every patient seeing a psychologist should be screened first.