by Patti Neighmond
March 14, 2011
At 32, it just didn't make sense that Daniel Sheiner was exhausted literally from the moment he woke up. "It didn't get any better over the course of the day, and I knew that was not normal," Sheiner says.Sheiner is a software designer and programmer. His job suffered as a result of his fatigue.
"I would miss conversations," Sheiner says. "I would ask a question that had already been answered."
Sheiner suspected he had sleep apnea because it ran in his family. But he was not overweight, which is the biggest risk factor for the disorder — some 60 to 90 percent of patients diagnosed with apnea have a body mass index, or BMI, over 28.
A sleep study confirmed Sheiner had one of the worst cases of apnea his doctors had ever seen. After trying a number of different treatments, his doctors finally tried a surgery using robots to treat his stubborn apnea — with positive results.
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