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symptoms effecting my sleep

Over the past 4 years I've developed these symptoms:   a chronic daily headache behind my forehead, which was debatabley attributed to a benign bone tumor in my skull;    constant dry swollen nose/turbinates with no real sinus disease;    most lately in the last year,  a distinct broad pressure in my chest all the time with also new onset of extra heart beats.  This makes it feel hard to breath in  or also as if I have "air hunger".    This symptom equals to often waking from my sleep feeling as if I'm suffocating due to the tightness in my chest,  and if this happens when I'm in a deep sleep I will sometimes have an extreme racing pulse in my sleep that wakes me up...  I don't feel short on breath per se,  just this air hunger and very uncomfortable heaviness in the chest that follows me around.  
There are some mornings I wake up with a migraine like headache and I will be bradycardic at around 45-50 which resolves when the headache does.

I have good exercise tolerance, my symptoms don't increase during exercise,   and I had a normal stress echo test.   My sleep study was also unremarkable with just mild sleep apnea..   I am 31 yrs old , male, and 40 lbs overweight
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159619 tn?1707018272
In one of your previous posts, you stated you were 5'10" and 272 pounds, that could likely be the cause of many of your symptoms. You should start there and see if some weight reduction helps your symptoms.
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707647 tn?1251488547
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If you have been evaluated by a sleep center and you had no underlying sleep disorder, then they are not related to sleep and your doctor would need to address these symptoms.

Dr. Jacobs
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