Swindon man diagnosed with sleep apnea after suffering for nearly 20 ...

A Swindon man has been diagnosed with one of the worst cases of sleep apnea that doctors have ever seen in Britain.

The condition which causes a person's airways to close when they are asleep, tortured Philip Skeates, 39, for nearly 20 years.

Sufferers of sleep apnea are rarely aware of it, and usually become conditioned to the daytime sleepiness and fatigue that occur because of it.

The seriousness of the condition for Mr. Skeates meant that he would wake up once every 40 seconds, throughout the night, thereby only achieving true REM sleep for a couple of seconds at a time and cumulatively for about 15 minutes a night.

But after the condition's accompanying snoring pushed his wife to the end of her rope, she convinced him to see a doctor.

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