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Navigate Ken’s Journey with Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea
00:25 About Ken
01:02 I’ve had it for a dozen years
01:20 I was a real skinny kid and even then had it
01:44 I stopped breathing 60 times an hour
02:10 It got worse after I hit 210 pounds
02:14 I started waking up with pounding headaches
02:45 I was tired all day
03:23 I did not realize how foggy my mental state was all the time
04:02 I absolutely hated the CPAP
04:20 Eventually i ended up getting a surgery for a deviated septum
06:07 I randomly saw a video of a guy messing with another machine and I just never thought about pushing any buttons and it made it it made a big difference
06:28 When I was younger I was always a morning person and that stopped after my sleep apnea got bad because I was always tired
07:16 I’m noticing I don’t get angry as easily
008:07 I’m in my 30s and I’m not trying to die in 10 years
12:25 When I was married my wife absolutely couldn’t stand it
12:51 so much so that so she didn’t want to sleep anywhere near me because of the snoring and the gasping
14:39 I’ll still use my wedge pillow some
16:12 How much did you miss in your life as a
result of sleep apnea?
16:47 I just felt terrible
17:01 I would have slept for 12 hours and still could not feel arrested to save my life
17:54 I am a lot more motivated to actually do stuff now when before I would lay in bed all day