Yes, that's exactly what happened, I was in a room with discrete cameras around me , I was asked to read a book for an hour and watch a film for an hour, I thought at most I'd slightly nodded but nowhere near the point of being asleep whereas in reality, having had the footage shown back to me, I was clearly out for many minutes at a time., it was quite unnerving to be honest.
Yes, I was pretty severe, I had a sleeping study where I was monitored whilst sleeping at night and a wake study as I describe in my post above.
In short, I was stopping breathing for up to 45seconds an average of 50 times per hour, the strain this put on my heart caused me to have two heart attacks on consecutive days (!) the coronary care centre couldn't work out why I'd had them until I mentioned that I'd recently been referred to the sleep & ventilation unit for suspected sleep apnea.
I was told in no uncertain terms that a third in succession would have killed me, all caused by a condition I frankly at the time scoffed at, putting my tiredness down to the long hours and irregular sleep patterns I had/still have as an HGV driver, incidentally I'm still an HGV driver, I maintain my license because the DVLA are aware of my condition and liaise with my sleep clinic, despite being older now I don't have the problems I used to have getting up at stupid times of the night to start my shift...
People dismiss sleep apnea yet as I say, it damn near killed me, at age 43...
I'm 53 now, never felt better simply because I'd argue over the last 10 years now I'm treated I.e. I use a CPAP machine, I've had the uninterrupted sleep that I hadn't been getting for years and years previously.
