If you have sleep apnea, chances are you don’t realize it.  Inverse reports.

My doctor was puzzled. He ordered blood tests, urine tests, an electrocardiogram — maybe, he thought, the trouble was heart disease; those night-time palpitations…

No, my heart was fine. My blood was fine.

He ordered a colonoscopy. It was late 2008 and I was 47 years old —almost time to be having one anyway. So I forced down the four liters of Nulytely to wash out my intestines so a gastroenterologist could take a good look inside.

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