Waking up feeling weary but it's not apnea?

[Bugenhagen]

Apixaban can cause tiredness.
https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/apixaban


If snoring is interrupting your sleep, you can wear an inexpensive mouth guard on your upper jaw and sleep in an inclined position. This makes it much harder to snore.
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Well I don't snore to speak of but I've been on Apixaban a couple of years it would be odd for it to start giving me issues well other than I have to be damned careful working at my forge

Edit.. I just had an idea, about seven weeks ago I got new jets for the forge and also started doing experimental work with copper Damascus and some other alloys. Maybe I'm getting exposed to something new there?

I'll have to have a think about this.

 

[Overnight]

Well I don't snore to speak of...

Hold on there...Do you have a mate you sleep with that can verify this claim? Because unless you have external verifiable witnesses, you snore, and quite loudy. Assume that to be true.

 

[Bugenhagen]

Hold on there...Do you have a mate you sleep with that can verify this claim? Because unless you have external verifiable witnesses, you snore, and quite loudy. Assume that to be true.

Yes I have, the wife is basically Matt Murdock since she has been losing her sight. She notices guests snoring on the other side of the house. I also have a recurved memory foam pillow which keeps the neck straight.

Overnight, just record on your phone and you will see on the waveform any loud noises or snoring, have done this. I'm sure there are apps specifically for this. I've never snored except for when I used to smoke and developed a bit of apnea then alright.

 

[tango29]

Have you thought of looking into a place that does sleep studies? We have a hospital group around here that does them as well as a private company. I believe you stay there over night at least once and they monitor your sleep and other parameters to look for any insights on problems.
I can add our youngest went in for a physical when he was around 15 and the doctor looked at his stats from the nurse and comments he falls into the obese category and we should look into his eating habits. I looked at the doctor and asked him to look at him standing before him in his underwear. The kid was cut and ripped, ab definition and monstorous thighs. He played competitive soccer and was in shape. The Doc said I guess he is ok. I laughed.

 

[Bugenhagen]

Have you thought of looking into a place that does sleep studies? We have a hospital group around here that does them as well as a private company. I believe you stay there over night at least once and they monitor your sleep and other parameters to look for any insights on problems.
I can add our youngest went in for a physical when he was around 15 and the doctor looked at his stats from the nurse and comments he falls into the obese category and we should look into his eating habits. I looked at the doctor and asked him to look at him standing before him in his underwear. The kid was cut and ripped, ab definition and monstorous thighs. He played competitive soccer and was in shape. The Doc said I guess he is ok. I laughed.

Actually, I just got off the phone with a sleep expert based in Prague my brother knows. He said I have classic symptoms of an overproduction/misregulation of Adenosine which is the substance that actually causes the feeling of sleepyness.

I never knew that caffeine was an adenosine antagonist/inhibitor and this is why it works. I need to do a blood test but he says there are a couple of paths to reset my system so it does not overproduce adenosine (or too sensitive to it). This results in the slightly dissociated feeling lasting hours with lots of yawns.

Apparently it's used as a heart medicine and I was given a seditive a couple of months back for a transesophageal echocardiogram checkup.

I must check if they added this as it may have triggered a state where its over produced.


Indeed, BMI has that major flaw of it does not differentiate between fat and muscle which is heavier. The one where you measure the waist, can't remember the name, is probably better. Every time I mention my height and weight online I get called fat nobody does that in person though.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

I do and it's much of the reason I work out in the stairwell not a gym, nobody believes my "gains" and such. I dunno, I like my family are naturally very heavily muscled, long shins, just narrowing the waist a little is all required to look especially giant swimmer build.

I know looking at the strongest men (not steroid built) from say before the 80s they seemed much smaller but they weren't putting in the degree of work and technique known these days.

That guy Danny Jones for example, an inch taller than me but we have similar build.

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BMI: 30

For what it's worth, I wouldn't bet my lunch money that he's completely natural. Not as obvious as the other guy you posted earlier, but there are elements of his physique that ~suggest a bit of assistance.

 

[Bugenhagen]

I wouldn't bet my lunch money that he's completely natural. Not as obvious as the other guy you posted earlier, but there are elements of his physique that ~suggest a bit of assistance.

Perhaps but my daughter send me his pic around a year ago saying how we have a similar shape and I don't juice (if that's what it's called).

This may be it, when I needed to get in movie shape, though I hardly every got cast, I use an EMS Stimulator. Though this travel one I have has both EMS and TENS, TENS is OK for a cramp but you need EMS to really work muscles as EMS replicates normal muscle contract and relax. Slap it on and in an hour a day, you look great.

I actually have a 2nd for two areas at once.

And it avoids listening to this at a gym

 

[tango29]

Actually, I just got off the phone with a sleep expert based in Prague my brother knows. He said I have classic symptoms of an overproduction/misregulation of Adenosine which is the substance that actually causes the feeling of sleepyness.

I never knew that caffeine was an adenosine antagonist/inhibitor and this is why it works. I need to do a blood test but he says there are a couple of paths to reset my system so it does not overproduce adenosine (or too sensitive to it). This results in the slightly dissociated feeling lasting hours with lots of yawns.

Apparently it's used as a heart medicine and I was given a seditive a couple of months back for a transesophageal echocardiogram checkup.

I must check if they added this as it may have triggered a state where its over produced.


Indeed, BMI has that major flaw of it does not differentiate between fat and muscle which is heavier. The one where you measure the waist, can't remember the name, is probably better. Every time I mention my height and weight online I get called fat nobody does that in person though.

Interesting, I have had issues with caffeine, and have been baffled as to why. For most of my life if I drank too much coffee, or coffee and soda, I would actually feel tired to the point of feeling exhausted. Then after my 2nd Covid shot I was having the complete opposite effect. My heart was racing, and my anxiety levels were through the roof. As soon as I cut back my caffeine intake I felt much better and the racing heart stopped. I have started trying coffee again and the reaction seems to have faded and I am ok with coffee/caffeine again, although I do watch how much I am putting into my system. I am about 7 month since that 2nd dose, maybe that is helping.

 

[Bugenhagen]

Interesting, I have had issues with caffeine, and have been baffled as to why. For most of my life if I drank too much coffee, or coffee and soda, I would actually feel tired to the point of feeling exhausted. Then after my 2nd Covid shot I was having the complete opposite effect. My heart was racing, and my anxiety levels were through the roof. As soon as I cut back my caffeine intake I felt much better and the racing heart stopped. I have started trying coffee again and the reaction seems to have faded and I am ok with coffee/caffeine again, although I do watch how much I am putting into my system. I am about 7 month since that 2nd dose, maybe that is helping.

Yep that's me, coffee and sodas. It may be you have a similar issue with potassium to me.

My trick with coffee I learned here in Colombia is to not heat the water for coffee over 60C (cooking thermometer helps) and to mostly drink instant granules. I was surprised to learn that Colombians prefer instant but its sweeter a lot less stimulating than using boiling water. There's a chemistry reason I can't remember exactly.

If you start to develop any arrhythmia, bananas usually help calm it (potassium, an old barrista trick) but I have found that propafenone works a treat for me. It regulates potassium.

 

[tango29]

Thanks I'll look into those ideas.