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Do you also track sleep apnea? For me, not controlling it (still able to manage it by adjusting sleep position here) makes me wake up in a panic with my brain being filled with anxious thoughts about my own mortality. And I'm not an anxious person at all.
I do not. How would I go about this?
Your ring probably gets a bunch of useful information already, especially if it tracks SpO2; most of those I saw already had a feature to help in detecting it, but otherwise if it charts your SpO2 during your sleep, look for slow, gradual loss of oxygenation in your blood over many seconds/multiple minutes, dipping below your baseline %, until a sudden jump back to your baseline. You also said you got a girlfriend recently? Ask her to check when she's awake in bed while you're asleep if she notices you ever stop breathing for a while.
Of course, either one of those indicators should be a prompt to consult to get a proper diagnosis.
SpO2 sensors on wearables tend to be very bad AFAIK. Check your specific sensor @thejdizzler.
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