Phil Hands: Sleep Apnoea
I just noticed that I wrote this a decade ago, and then never got round to posting
it, so thought I might kick it off now to mark my tentative return to blogging.
At the recent 2015 Cambridge-UK Mini-DebConf (generously hosted by ARM), I
gave an impromptu Lightning Talk about Sleep Apnoea
(video here).
Obstructive Sleep Apnoea
(OSA - the form I'm on about) is a sleep disorder where one repeatedly
stops breathing while asleep, normally when snoring, but not
necessarily. The consequence of this is that in order to resume
breathing one must wake up momentarily. These events are not
remembered, but they ruin the quality of your sleep.
If you find that you're often quite tired,
you should probably give the
Epworth Sleepiness Scale
a try -- if it suggests you have a problem: Get thee to a doctor for a check-up!
The good news is that if you do turn out to have OSA it's fairly easy to treat
(CPAP or more recently APAP being the favoured treatment), and that when treated
you should be able to get good quality sleep that will result in you being much
more awake, and much more cheerful.
If you might be an Apnoeac (or a sufferer of some other sleep disorder, for that
matter), get yourself treated, and you'll be able to use the extra hours of
daily concentration working on Debian, thus making the world a better place