Dave hadn't felt well before but had been told it was down to smoking, shift work, allergies, poor diet - and even his pillow and mattress
Dave Whelan has been grumpy and tired for as long as he can remember. He is 46 now, but even as a teenager, he would doze on the sofa after school virtually every day. He can fall asleep at the drop of a hat and would even snore as a baby. It has been a bone of contention for most of his life, but he didn’t realise his noisy sleep sounds were the sign of something much more dangerous until he was in a near-fatal accident.
Dave had been to the doctors multiple times about the snoring and tiredness, fearing it was sleep apnea is a sleep disorder that causes breathing to repeatedly stop and start while during sleep, preventing the body from getting enough oxygen. It can be dangerous and lead to serious complications, including heart damage, arrhythmias, and sudden cardiac death.
Dave was lucky to come out of the collision with little more than aches and pains, but after the crash, he was signed off work and he pushed his doctor for a sleep apnoea test because he felt his reaction time could have been affected by fatigue. His work - which he says has been really supportive - paid for a private ResMed sleep study, with shocking results; his reaction times were that of an eighty-year-old.
"I’d had no idea what it felt like to wake up and not still feel tired, I genuinely thought when people woke up, they were still tired. In the month after getting the machine and returning to work, I was waking after 7 hours’ sleep, naturally, feeling so energetic.
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