Yes, I have it.
Read about it. I was first diagnosed in 2004; the VA sent me a DIY kit to do the testing. Based on that kit alone, they said I had Sleep Apnea, snoring from almost the outset. It also turns out that Apnea can run in the family. So, I've been on a CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) machine since then. It takes a while getting using to the beastie. At first, it feels as if you're being inflated. After the initial teething period, you find that you've never slept so well.
Well, just recently, I underwent the full blown test. I got wired for sound (quadrophonic, of course!). The technician who wired me and monitored me must've been taught by the Marquis du Sade. About 2 hours into the study, he came in and placed the mask on me and hooked me up to the BiPAP machine. After about an hour, he came out and cinched the mask down so hard, my eyes bulged!
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The results of this test were relayed to me this Sunday. It appears that my O2 saturation dropped to 70% during the course of the test. Not a good thing. The lower your O2 saturation goes, the harder your ticker works to get oxygenated red stuff around your corpus delicti. The harder your ticker works, the less sleep you get, which results in lower O2 saturation ... can you see a pattern developing here?
As of today, I have retired Snuffleupagus
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and replaced him with Snuffy II
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. Now comes the fun part -- getting used to Snuffy II. I took a snooze this afternoon. The difference between the two is like comparing a normally carbureted engine with a fully-blown, nitrous injected hemi.
Boiled down, if your spouse complains of your nocturnal sound effects (the northern sounds, not the southern sounds, for which there is no cure), check it out with your local sawbones.