Holy Crow! I am still awake. Amazing. It didn't always used to be like this. I could never get out of bed in High School. I could never stay awake in class, either. I never had any energy and I was depressed all time.

In my thirties my doctor said I was Manic/depressive or Bi-polar and put me on Lithium and anti-depressants. I was till sleepy all time and my bouts of sudden naps at inappropriate moments increased. I just couldn't accomplish anything without running out of steam. That bummed me out further. I really didn't notice any change with all meds except for side effects so stopped taking them. I waited for my world to cave in but nothing happened. I was exactly same without dry mouth, headaches and pill-popping. I just concluded that I was just your average, run-of-the-mill screw-up and I would never amount to much.

Meanwhile, I kept under-performing at my job and I lived in a state of anxiety that I would get fired. They said I had a bad attitude but I was just depressed and exhausted. It's pretty hard to be sunny and bright when you have your own black cloud raining on you. My nap attacks were frequent. I would feel my stamina draining away like someone pulled a plug in my energy sink. A couple minutes warning was all I had. Enough time to sneak into a toilet stall and take a 15 minute snooze. They probably thought I had a colon problem. Hee hee.

I lacked energy to keep my girlfriends socially entertained so they disappeared. I crashed several cars. My memory failed frequently and my cognitive skills were mushy. So what hell was wrong with me?

By chance I read an article about sleep disorders. I turns out I suffer from not one but two different sleep disorders. Probably because I am a Gemini: twins.

I was bagged all time because I could not attain deep sleep. Result: daily fatigue. Why? Because of Sleep Apnea. That's when your windpipe partially collapses when you lie down and your oxygen flow is restricted. Your brain panics and goes into survival-mode. Respiration is increased, your heart beats like crazy and you awaken gasping for air only to fall asleep immediately and cycle resumes. In my case, this would happen 30-60 times in a night. And I was classified as a mild case! The funny thing is in morning I thought I had an uninterrupted night's sleep.

Both of maxillary sinuses drain into nose. Nothing much really happens in sinus except when exit into nose is blocked. Swelling in nose can cause blockage of sinus outlet and fluid builds up in sinus. And when sinus fills up with fluid, bacteria can grow in fluid because sinus is warm, dark, and moist. The problem started with nose blocking up and this is usually caused by nasal and breathing allergies.