weird breathing issue

Last night I jumped up at 2am. I had a sensation that I needed to jolt myself back to breathing. When this occurred I made a gasping sound once and was ok. I called my cardiologist today to see what my pacemaker did last night but they won't have the reading until tomorrow. I have dysautonomia ( deregulation of the autonomic nervous system) at got the pacer in Oct. due to bradycardia from the faulty nervous system.
A sleep test three years ago was fine. I went to doctor today and ekg fine. I ended up having fever and sinus infection; any illness can mess me up due to the dysautonomia. My doctor ran bloodwork and is waiting to hear what pacer data shows.
Any ideas?

2 Comments

It's all related

by Theknotguy - 2013-12-28 11:12:57

Yeah, get the same symptoms too. Usually I get a jolt as I'm starting to go to sleep. Unless you have anything else, I'd just ignore it. Especially if the doctor can't find anything. I attribute it to the whole situation of dysautonomia, heart problems, sleep apnea, etc. Sorry your grandparents swam in the wrong gene pool.

I'm hearing of people having problems but "passing" their sleep tests. Question in my mind is if you're borderline sleep apnea and could benefit from either a mouth device or a CPAP.

For me, I get it two ways. One way is the "jolt" as I'm going to sleep sometimes. Another is when I go into a real deep sleep and stop breathing. The "jolt" I ignore - nothing happens otherwise. For stopping to breathe I have the CPAP. Even then the brain wakes me up by screaming, "BREATHE!" even with the CPAP pushing air in.

I don't know if they have anything to monitor if you're stopping to breathe while going to sleep. Usually I don't go into a deep enough sleep when I'm at the sleep study. So I never get to the point where I stop to breathe. You may want to re-visit the sleep doctor and ask that question.

It's all related. Sleep, heart,etc. So sometimes it's hard to tease out each individual problem.

Hang in there.

Theknotguy

Sleep Apnea?

by KAG - 2013-12-28 11:12:57

You said that you were tested 3 years ago for sleep apnea and all was good. Perhaps things have changed since then?

Remember that an EKG is a short test of your HR, usually just seconds. So unless something happens in those few seconds everything looks fine.

Sleep apnea seems to be associated with many medical conditions. I'm going in to be tested in a few weeks and at my consultation with the Dr, she rattled off 16 medical conditions that are currently known to be associated with sleep apnea.

Maybe worth another look?
Kathy

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