Sleep abnea cause dizzyness

[Corne89]

I am 40 years of age , i have been diagnosed with hypertension and sleep abnea , it took the doctors 2.5 years to find this out , and I was dead tired ,I Smoked 40 cigarettes a day, and by 35 this problem started with me , I would start to struggle to talk, realizing, I would run out of breath , but not also realizing i had sleep abnea by that time. I would start shaking, get bad vision , still do , and even start feeling very scared together i would feel when people started asking me what is going on , i would get nervous due to feeling like this then it will feel that blood does not get to my brain , so I wount be able to write , i would have to pinch to write someting simple, due to shaking , but simple became difficult to me.Like Walking, standing to talk to a client. Concentrating to keep with a conversations, reading. I became dizzy from the morning all during the day , people thought I was drunk, and drinking at work , I had to explain to my manager this is not the case as I would also struggle to talk due to short breath, I was promoted just before all this happened , but I was doing my job even though I new something is starting to happen or to go wrong , half a year after being promoted , but not on paper , I tried to explain to the doctor , managers ,that this was not the case as above and that I am not well , I went from Doctor to Doctor , and some thinking as well that I have drank , I asked to take a blood sample to proof my innocence , as the people at work also had this idea , and he said he will have it ready as I was in his office 8:00 due to being at work at 7:30 , and having people giving me a hard time saying to me: are you OK , the blood test came back , only a few hours later , CLEAN , the doctor phoned me to came back , he decided it was stress disorder , he gave me pills , and pills for the inner ear , it helped a bit but still the dizzyness persisted . it is like i was looking threw a fog , like being scared, together with unsure of myself , like I cant manage myself to do the basic things to walk around or stand still and concentrate on a client in front  of me , as i am swinging inside my head , i will sit on a chair and it will swing around me  , and it is not like some people say it is if you stand up quickly and you feel light headed for a few seconds , NO you are almost constantly on a boat , i think their was maybe not a  full hour that passed where i was myself  . i have seen 5 Doctors ended up at a Neorologist who could not find any thing , went for scans did it all  , could not afford the blood one where they pass liquid threw your blood to see on the MRI if their is a blockage , in the end the Doctor said i look tired , maybe i don't sleep well , So i said , Yes can i be tested , and was referred,   by know i had it for 2.5 years all ready age 37 and a half,  FINALLY , i found a doctor that helps with sleep , it was found i had 84 events per hour , and that my machine should be placed on 16 , Man was this hard , i never had any relieve , it felt like i slept worse , people was saying you found the cure but still look at you , have you slept , i felt worse , i went back and told the Doctor , the machine makes me more dizzy then what i all ready was, I WENT BACK TWICE , i was told she cant do nothing for me , if this is the case , maybe their is something else wrong ,  so i went back to the Doctor , testing it all , Nothing , , the only other thing i noticed , i picked up a lot of wait during this 2.5 years , ALSO I MUST SAY I MANAGED TO STOP SMOKING 8 MONTHS WITH THE MACHINE, i realized i am feeling better after 6 months , but know on 2 years i must say even more better but still gaining Wait , but during all this tiredness , i tried to exercise , So I changed the reading of the machine to 9 or 10 sometimes to 13 , feeling that if it is at this level i can manage to blow out my breath from my nose , I cant tell you to do this !, but it helped me a bit ,  , it felt i was having a panic attack with the machine on 16 , in the morning , also i take blood thinners ecotrin , once or twice daily and blood pressure pill in the morning , i realized i have to walk 4-5km a day in the afternoon , 3 - 4 times a week ,  and i try to sleep only what is needed 8 hours A DAY, if i wake up earlier i will try to go outside to get the fresh air in my body , not really walking around just breathing , other wise if i sleep to long it feels i have to much CO2 in my blood as well , and it takes longer to desolve through my body ,  i exercise my stomach by doing  5 different exercises for only 6 minutes every second day IF I FEEL I CAN. believe me it is hard , but if i DONT EXERCISE it feels it comes back .Believe me their is times , i do all this but still it does not go away completely it is there , lesser and the dizzyness still comes and go in the mornings , but not so much anymore but still lasting for some time up to 10 in the morning , some days i will feel better earlier , but more manageable  , i struggle to loose wait a lot , but i am better when i start to do , it feel this illness want me to move around , I don't worry what the people think , or how you look , i do it for myself , believe me i had comments a lot , and still do here and there. i am trying now to go on oxygen liquid CELL FOOD you buy from the pharmacy for R300.00 a month it last a month  , you drink it in the morning , maybe this will speed up my metabolism to loose the fat ,height 1.78 wight 110 kg, but this is me , i don't have a cure , but this helps me . For my nervousness , I go to church . i know what some of you go threw , there is times i think , WHO CAN JUST HELP ME , due to it being hard everyday , but I should persist, by taking action , and do what I can , I am still looking around, hope you have answers , GP Doctor says he cont do anything more , But why if i pickup wait , it feels more dizzy?
Can your Stomach have something to do with sleep abnea, also can your blood presure go up and down after taking medicine for blood pressure 160 mg one a day?
It is a long story but this is mine, i wish to stand up normal again.

[Zootal]

Disclaimer - I'm not a doctor. This is not medical advice nor should it be considered as such.

I too have hypertension and sleep apnea, but these never caused dizziness or shaking or shortness of breath. Is your doctor a sleep specialist? If so, go find a general practitioner or better yet, a pulmonary specialist and get your lungs checked out. Every so-called "sleep specialist" I've ever seen just tole me to use a cpap and everything would get better. I did, and nothing got better because my sleep apnea wasn't causing the problems.

If you get out of breath just talking, I doubt sleep apnea has anything to do with it. Go get a thorough physical and be sure to get your lung checked. My bet is something else is wrong, though it is possible you are just out of shape and have non-cancer lung damage from smoking so much. Speaking of which, be absolutely certain to get a chest xray.

[Morpheus1517]

Your best bet is to continue working with your doctor.  If s/he can't do anymore, ask for a referral to a specialist or consider a teaching hospital.

[Corne89]

But what specialist would you recommend,