Hello; When reading James post, I thought maybe I should ask everybody about this. I now use cpap at night. I only knew I wasn't sleeping because of the pain in my legs. I knew that when I fell asleep jerking or something would wake me up in a few minutes. So I went for a sleep study. They found that I have a rhythmic pain in my legs every 20 seconds or so, that I have some weird arousal thing in my eeg waveforms way above normal indicating pain, and that I have some type of unexplained airway thing that responds to cpap. I do have a short neck, but the usual causes aren't really present. So, they started me on cpap. Weird thing was, I took to it right off. Still have some bad nights, and apparently some weird abnormalities, but I sleep without waking up gasping for air. ( My oxygen saturation was reallly dropping when I slept.) The really weird thing is, that I now can tell it's harder to breath when I take the thing off in the morning, and then I feel normal after feeling like I'm working hard with it off. So, my thought is, that maybe anyone with an higher involvement of the TM might benefit from a sleep study. I really am wondering if it is weak thoracic muscles causing my problem. I do know that sleeping is GREAT. Pam
