What was your lowest oxygen level when you did your sleep study?

I always snored, but I didn’t know it was an actual problem until a couple years ago when I was sleeping on my friends sailboat during a bachelor party, when I woke up I was on an inflatable raft tied to the boat. Apparently I was snoring so loud that three of my “friends” carried me off the boat and put me on a raft outside the boat.

The second event was maybe two years ago. I was offered a job and the training required me to share a hotel room with three other guys during training. I told them right off the bat I snore pretty loud and that I’ll take the pull out couch in the living room as to try my best not to disturb them. They assured me that it’s okay and that it can’t be that bad, well that night at 2am I wake up to a flashlight in my face, all three guys are standing around me looking at me with their mouths agape. The asked me if I was okay and if they should call 911. I groggily asked “what happened?”. They said not only do I snore very loud but I sound like a dying wounded animal. They said I have been choking and gasping for air the past 3 hours.

Well fast forward a year later I take a sleep study. Two days later I have a bunch of calls from the doctor. They said I had over 100 hundred events and that my blood oxygen dipped into the low 60s multiple times.

I now have a machine and life is day and night different from when I didn’t use the machine. Waking up everyday and going through the daily motions of life without the machine was how I’d expect one to feel the day after having been beaten up by an angry gorilla. I was always tired, everything always hurt and no matter how much I slept I was STILL tired. I thought that was normal. Now I feel much better.