Fitful nightly sleep linked to chronic inflammation, hardened arteries
If your doctor tells you to do a sleep study, do it.<p>If, as a result, they tell you to get a CPAP, get it.  Those things are life-changing.<p>I felt like an old man at 50 years old.  My back was so stiff I couldn't put on my socks.  When I got out of bed in the morning I felt so fragile, like my joints were all inflamed - especially my Achilles' tendons.  I was too tired to do anything beyond 6 pm.<p>Now, 51, I feel totally normal again.  And that change was pretty much overnight once I started using that wretched machine.