OSA disrupts the household, disturbs and worries bed partners. Many couples regularly sleep in separate rooms due to the disruption, and even neighbours have been known to complain!
Sleeping apart does nothing to maintain the important bond in any relationship, and the night times become increasingly fraught with an increased incidence in breakdown of the relationship.
Daytime fatigue from disrupted sleep at night gives way to frank sleepiness during the day as measured by the
Epworth Sleepiness Scale.
Sufferers feel tired and lack motivation, and there
is ‘less doing and more sitting’ at the weekends when not working. One partner recently summed the situation up when she said “his get up and go has got up and gone!”
Most sufferers say that they cope well when they are doing things and concentrating, for example at work, but that they tend to go to sleep when they are sitting or inactive including
driving.
Many sneak a quiet snooze during work breaks, and some simply cannot stay awake even during that important board meeting!
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