My problems with sleep apnea started about four years ago.
At first I did not realize that anything was wrong with me.
As I was doing contract work at the time, I stayed in caravan parks and slept in a caravan.
Snoring is one of the symptoms of sleep apnea, but as I stayed on my own there was nobody that could have told me that I was snoring during the night.
All of a sudden I become very sleepy right through the day, it became so bad that I fell asleep behind the wheel of my truck during the day.
One time while driving on a gravel road I fell asleep behind the wheel and when I woke up I was doing about 60 mph; next to the road, fortunately their was no ditches or rocks next to the road.
My boss heard about this and forced me to go for tests.
During sleep studies it was confirmed that I did have sleep apnea.
The specialist prescribed a c-pap machine but after trying it for a while I could not cope with it.
Due to this my boss fired me; he said that I was a danger to myself and other people and should rather not work anymore.
My sleep apnea was so bad that I could not drive my car anymore as I fell asleep behind the steering wheel after a couple of miles.
About two years ago my snoring became so bad that my wife could not sleep anymore, she woke me many times during the night, one night when she woke me for the umpteenth time I went to the lounge and fell asleep in my favorite arm chair.
The next morning she told me that my snoring did not wake her during the rest of the night.
Since that night I haven't slept on a bed again.
My health improved steadily and I can honestly say that sleep apnea does not affect me anymore and I can now drive my own car again.
During the last year I have on numerous occasions done trips of 400 miles per day and did not feel sleepy at any time.
If you have sleep apnea try sleeping in a chair, you should feel the improvement in your health after three months.
I am not implying that this will cure your sleep apnea but it certainly helped me.