During my sleep study last Saturday night the first portion of the study they had me sleep without the biPAP machine and I woke up 3 times choking and gasping for air. I called for the tech to hook me up to the machine but he said that he couldn't because I had another hr to be off the machine. It was a rough night. Then during the next part of the night he hooked me up to the machine and I slept better but I still woke up exhausted and said so in the survey before I left the sleep study.
Could be a lot of things. Could be you've been treating this with speed and the speed has stopped working and now you're suffering the rebound many people get when they take speed. Ritalin is speed. It can be the cause of lack of sleep. It can also cause anxiety, though you don't say that's a problem. If you tell us what medications and what types of therapy you've tried somebody might have something new to suggest. If you do have sleep apnea, it can be the cause of a lot of problems. It can also be irrelevant and overdiagnosed, but when it is the problem, it is the problem.
Just a follow-up to my question I forgot to say that in the past few months I awake exhausted and stay exhausted all day and I don't take any tranquilizera. I recently had an overnight pulse oximetry test done and it revealed that during my sleep my oxygen dips into the low 80s and even as low as 77%. So they ordered a sleep study and I took it last Saturday night. I go for my sleep study results in 2 wks. I don't know if this oxygen issue during my sleep has anything with the resurgence of my deep depression.
Any thoughts?