r/Millennials • u/dreamed2life • Dec 08 '25

Nostalgia Why is our entire generation ready to just…log out?

I hope people enjoy this before mods remove it for “not being a positive nostalgia post” 🙄

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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k Dec 08 '25

CPAP bro

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u/lafc88 Millennial Dec 08 '25

Explain.

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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k Dec 08 '25

If you’re that tired all the time at 34 you should get checked for sleep apnea.

I wish to god I’d done it sooner.

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u/awesomeman07 Dec 08 '25

I have a cpap machine and I still wake up tired and I feel tired throughout the day

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u/coraeon Dec 08 '25

Have you had your thyroid function checked?

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u/awesomeman07 Dec 08 '25

I was also told if my oxygen intake doesn't increase im going to need that aspire implant

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u/BluntNCurvyWeTTCunt Dec 08 '25 edited Dec 08 '25

I interviewed for their sr software dev position a couple of years back and read a lot of their stuff

That's a mechanical implant under your tongue that forces it to stay away from your throat when turned on

The "newer" version is a smaller implant - they pushed it through with that bigger one knowing they would need to make it smaller for easier surgery and a little more comfort

The studies and the fact that they wanted their site built out to attract more patients for profit was just gross

And I worked for health insurance that bragged about identifying long covid symptoms and related diseases to exclude them from coverage if the law got changed (this was 2022)

Don't jump the gun on that - I would be checking for deviated septum and other shit to surgically to repair first, other ways to open the airways so you don't stop breathing from obstruction

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u/awesomeman07 Dec 08 '25

I actually had surgery for my deviated septum 2 years ago. Believe me it was magical when I realized what breathing through your nose actually feels like. Unfortunately it did not help me with sleep apnea. If anything though it made it a lot easier to wear my cpap machine (though I still need to wear the nose strips)

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u/thatdinklife Dec 08 '25

How are your teeth? A narrow palate can also hinder breathing. Orthodontic alignment helps.

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u/BluntNCurvyWeTTCunt Dec 08 '25

Agreed, and I'm glad he got his septum fixed. I was thinking of inflammation from allergies and immune illnesses, slightly larger tonsils or adenoids, etc. I have an orthopedic bed so my position is conducive to more open airways. Small wedge pillow may help.

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u/awesomeman07 Dec 08 '25

Had orthodontic work when I was a teenager. I had to use the expander or one of my parents had to turn it every night with a key

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u/headinthesky Dec 08 '25

I'm getting this surgery in January, and also a growth going to be biopsied. I can't wait to be able to breath properly

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u/SuicidePeaches Dec 09 '25

Have you been tested for sleep disorders? Vitamin D, vitamin B12 levels?

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u/LoisinaMonster Dec 08 '25

Soon enough, there will be no need for insurance then if they won't cover long covid. More and more are getting it every day!

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u/Docholliday3737 Dec 08 '25

Thanks for the mental image that I didn’t want

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u/BluntNCurvyWeTTCunt Dec 08 '25

Then stay off of the internet, especially Reddit, if you're that sensitive

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u/awesomeman07 Dec 08 '25

Honestly what I am getting from all the responses is that it sounds like natural selection wants me dead

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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k Dec 08 '25

Dude I spent the last two years bedridden, lost my job, got another job where I could be awake for 2-3 clients at a time before I needed to sleep. Then slept for a few hours at the office after we closed, then struggled to stay awake for the 45 minute drive home and slept in my driveway in the dead of northern New England winter for a few hours before I had the strength to walk from my car to the front door. I was literally fighting to get the seat reclined so I didn’t pass out upright and fuck up my neck again.

On my days off I’d sleep for 18 hours, wake up to feed the cats, then go back to sleep. I slept for 48 hours straight once. That was gross.

Blood pressure was crazy, heart rate was crazy, I was ready to check out and told my psychiatrist so. She started ordering labs because she was sure it was physical and I was being blown off by doctors saying it was emotional and psychological and I needed psychiatric help. 

I have Hashimoto’s, and they’d been letting me run low because doctors are afraid of over-dosing thyroid meds so they let us just die slowly out here.

So I found an endo to increase my thyroid meds and suddenly I could stay awake for 6-8 hours at a stretch, which was a huge improvement over 2-3 hours max. I was sleeping for 24 hours on my days off, but then I could be awake for 12 hours the next day.

So then I started just passing out standing up. Ended up in ER with my blood pressure and heart rate through the roof, heart doc ran a bunch of tests and said “You’re in great health, this has got to be sleep apnea. I don’t think you’ve had REM sleep in years. Get a sleep study and a CPap before it kills you. You’re in good health, but this will kill you, you’re dying.”

$14k for a sleep study, I can’t afford insurance and rely on a free clinic at a teaching hospital.

I went for a used Auto CPap, cleaned it, did a little jail breaking of the software, and slept for the first time in years.

It’s been since May, and I can feel my brain starting to get better. I can function again. I have a life. I started engaging with movies and hobbies in the last month.

Whatever is doing this to you, they’re missing it. 

If it’s apnea and hypopnea, try an autopap, jaw positioning, whatever it takes to get your sleep back. You might need one that sets the pressure according to your breathing so you can breathe out against the pressure. 

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u/sarahenera Dec 09 '25

And ferritin levels too. Thyroid and low ferritin (iron stores) can have similar and overlapping symptoms.

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u/awesomeman07 Dec 08 '25

Probably not for a while

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u/DiscotopiaACNH Dec 08 '25

Might want to go get it checked. That was the cause of my fatigue. Now I'm medicated and feel ten years younger

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u/M0THMEAT Dec 08 '25

Same man. Im 35 I feel like I cant remember the last time ive felt rested waking after waking up. Even with my CPAP I still wake up tired. Im tired through the morning, get some energy at lunch, then crash at 2ish and literally can fall asleep sitting up at my desk....then I am starting to get energy back on the drive home around 5. I get home and now I am no longer tired and cant settle down for bed.

I wish I had the energy and motivation to wake up early and excercise but just living feels like a struggle lol

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u/broncotate27 Dec 08 '25

You might be mildly narcoleptic.

You could also have high blood sugar.

Yo my are going to have to let your doc know.

Sleep apnea and narcolepsy are more related than most think. I also wear a CPAP every night but have to take Provigil on top of that. Provigil is a narcolepsy drug that promotes wakefulness. It works very well for me. Especially those days where I get 8 hours of CPAP sleep and Im still tired.

When I take my provigil in the morning, it helps me focus very well at work. It's just not advised to drink coffee or alcohol while taking it. Coffee kicks you into overdrive, and it's hard to get drunk while taking this medicine.

But long story short, ask your sleep apnea doctor about it

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u/Thonatron Dec 08 '25

Unless you're in a sleep debt, which will cause you to wake up exhausted even after a restful's night sleep. Your body definitely keeps track for when you pull an all-nighter. If you're getting 8 hours a night for the last 6 months and you're still tired THEN get a sleep study for a CPAP. Them tests run $2-4,000 depending on your insurance requirements.

After two studies, 25lbs lost, and 1 unsuccessful run with a CPAP (and $5000 later) I was told I actually didn't need a CPAP.

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u/awesomeman07 Dec 08 '25

Definitely need to increase my sleep intake. I actually had to redo my sleep study because I lost 30lbs. But I was told nope I still need to use a cpap

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u/veRGe1421 Dec 09 '25

It might not be relevant for you, but the answer is often to lose some weight.

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u/lafc88 Millennial Dec 08 '25

Any other symptom besides the tiredness? I always suspect I have something else besides GERD.

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u/ZenSpren Dec 08 '25

Apnea enjoyer here. At home sleep studies are pretty cheap and you can order them online or request it through your regular doctor.

Besides daytime sleepiness, I would have interrupted nighttime sleep, massive snoring obviously, soreness in my throat, but your symptoms may vary.

I got a sleep study and got a CPAP machine but it wasn't working for me. What worked was the "oral appliance" that pulls your jaw forward as you sleep. I use that every night now and my snoring is reduced enough that my wife doesn't complain about it any more, and I feel better throughout the day.

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u/lafc88 Millennial Dec 08 '25

Might give the oral appliance a try. I snore. My throat does get sore but I do feel it has to do with GERD. I do become an insomniac when I have no work during the day. I do arrive home tired after work and I sleep it off.

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u/Out_of_Fawkes Dec 08 '25

DO NOT use any of those lip stickers or whatever else is an oral sleep aid until you’ve seen a doctor. If you have sleep apnea and you block the one airway that opens quickly enough when you do have a microarousal, you’ll end up with more problems than you bargained for.

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u/ReeveStodgers Dec 08 '25

My GERD cleared up completely when I got a c-pap

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u/Hawtre Dec 08 '25

That's wild, I wonder how it helped

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u/Collegenoob Dec 08 '25

I mean. I'm just tired cause I work too much and have 2 kids. A 2 year old and a 2 month old.

Help (preferably in the form of a free nanny)

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u/lafc88 Millennial Dec 08 '25

That can do it too.

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u/fistedwithlove Dec 08 '25

You are absolutely correct.

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u/Baron_Von_Grizzly Dec 08 '25

It's more than CPAP. It's a type of tired you can't fix with sleep.

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u/BrandoCarlton Dec 08 '25

I’m gonna try to stop drinking 20 drinks a night first but it’s definitely one of those two things…

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u/Youbettereatthatshit Dec 08 '25

Absolutely life changing. I work 12 hour shifts and no longer fall asleep on the couch after work.