Quote Originally Posted by DJD View Post
I don't snore much if at all (thats what I been told) but I wheeze when allergies are kicking my butt. I know I need a sleep study according to my healthcare friends.
Yup, the sleep study is probably the best thing you could do. I had no clue I had sleep apnea until I had a seizure and then had a sleep study (turned out the two weren't related). And I never realized just how bad my sleep pattern was until I got on CPAP and started sleeping well! BUT, sleep apnea doesn't keep you from going to sleep; it just makes you not get restful sleep once you're asleep. As you're going down into deep sleep and your airway occludes, you waken, not fully, but enough that you take a deep breath, then go back to sleep, then your airway occludes again, etc. You never get to REM sleep. I'm not saying, of course, that you don't have sleep apnea, it just sounds like there's something else at work that keeps you from going to sleep to begin with. Still something that a doctor may well be able to help with.

As far as meds, my neurologist gave me baclofen, and it works like a charm. It's a muscle relaxer, and he gave it to me to help prevent my migraines, and to help me sleep. He prescribed it when I told him about how the strap from my CPAP mask going across the back of my neck was causing me some neck pain, leading to headaches. Fortunately for me, he is on CPAP himself, and understood, and told me he takes baclofen himself for that very reason. It comes in 25mg pills, and I can take 1-4 a night. I generally take 2 and it does the trick. It's also known to be a mood stabilizer.