Yeah he did the sleep study, back before we lost our insurance. The doc said "Do you know you move 20 times in an hour?" He said "Yep, my wife told me I move some body part violently every 3 minutes, because she lays there and times me, since I keep her awake." He doesn't have apnea, just some weird variant of "restless leg syndrome" that afflicts his entire body. He took Requip for quite a while, and it helped a little, though not completely. Then we lost the insurance and the problem came back, till I did some reading and researching and suggested he try iron supplements, as iron-deficiency anemia seems be a fairly constant factor of most all the sleep disturbances suffered by middle-aged men. He tried it, and it actually helped a great deal. Then, he got diagnosed with hypertension, and they made him stop the iron supplements.
But fixing the jumping and wiggling did nothing to help the snoring, anyway. So around the time they made him stop the iron, he got tired of finding me sleeping on the couch every morning (felt guilty about it, I'm pretty sure), so we decided he would move to the guest room, and have maintained separate rooms ever since. It saves a LOT of wear and tear on the marriage. Yelling and screaming at each other in the middle of the night is not conducive to any kind of friendly relations all the rest of the time.
Plus, I don't have to smell all the various "man smells" everytime I go in my room -- that's an amazingly wonderful side effect I hadn't anticipated.
Andria
