4. Waking up throughout the night is a distant memory.
It wasn’t uncommon for me to wake up five or six times a night. I’m not talking about a few second of consciousness and then back to dreamland. I was physically getting up and out of bed five or six times. Sometimes I’d take a warm bath in the middle of the night because my legs were kicking so severely from the PLM, but even more frequently I would get a glass of water because my mouth was bone dry from the sleep apnea. This past month was the first time in 10 plus years that I slept a full night without waking up once.