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Tiredness/fatigue/aches

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After being asked for the 50th time why I am always tired and achy, I thought about it and decided to ask what you guys what you think about what it could be.

Partial list of symptoms

- Rarely awake feeling rested

- Frequently sleep through my alarm clock

- By lunchtime, I am exhausted and ready to go home

- Frequently take lunchtime naps at work, sometimes not by choice

- Awaken at night to go to the bathroom, often have trouble going back to sleep

- Frequent pain in joints or muscle spasms

- After work, want to just eat and gostay in bed instead of doing other activities

- After dinner, often go to bed, watch some tv and I am out.

- Had this problem on and off during and since active duty, have service and VA treatment records

- VAMC prescribed sleep meds like ambien or trazodone

- SC for allergies/rhinitis/sinusitis, GERD, TMJ (wear bite guard for bruxism). Regarding sinus, can't really breath through nose much at all, snore, awaken with dry mouth, etc...

Partial results from sleep study

- Insignificant OSA, no CPAP required

- Dysfunctions of sleep stages

- Multiple arousals from sleep

- Spontaneous arousal index of 8 per hour

- History of sleep related bruxism

I checked the sleep apnea ratings and it has a rating for persistent daytime hypersomnolence. What exactly does this mean and could it be related?

I checked the chronic fatigue syndrome and its ratings are similar to:

"Which are nearly constant and restrict routine daily activities by less than 25 percent of the pre-illness level, or; which wax and wane, resulting in periods of incapacitation of at least two but less than four weeks total duration per year"

Could someone please explain the both parts of this, especially the latter?

What do they mean by incapacitation? Is it like when someone's back is shot and the doctor puts them on bedrest for x number of days, i.e. incapacitated for x days?

Do they mean the periods must last two to four weeks consecutively or merely total that amount over a year?

Could it be something else?

Any ideas, recommendations, advice?

Thanks

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Something I noticed but can find no medical literature on.

Before I was diagnosed for sleep apnea, and put on a CPAP machine, I had horrible problems with sinus infections, headaches, and heartburn. Post cpap they have all resolved. Medical literature explains the Headache and Heartburn resolving but doesn't mention/link sinus infections to sleep apnea(excepting for deviated septum). I suppose my gastric reflux could have been causing damage to the sinus linning, but I don't see studies linking sinus problems to Sleep apnea.

I am currently fighting for service connection for respiratory for both Kyphoscoliosis(in service connected to back injury) and apnea diagnosed long after service. My pulmonologist's medical opinion clearly references a series of medical conditions test results and such that he says indicates my apnea started in service. 19 months into a DRO, hopping to hear something soon.

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