Sometimes, right when I close my eyes and begin to fall asleep, I will wake up because I am making a loud moaning noise. It's very loud and people have told me I moan in my sleep sometimes throughout the night. Would this be any way related to sleep apnea? I read that most people the moan don't tend to wake up and it happens during REM sleep. I experience the moaning right as I fall asleep...maybe 3 to 10 mins after starting to daze off. Any info would be great.

Do you have any type of chronic pain condition??  Are you currently depressed about some event in your life??


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This might help, it deals with groaning instead of moaning but maybe it will help.

http://www.sleepeducation.com/Disorder.aspx?id=40


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Here is an uneducated answer. I am not a specialist but just someone who does a similar thing. I believe it is part of  parasomnia group of sleep disorders. Sometimes when I first start to fall off to sleep I make little moaning sounds. Sometimes I can hear myself moaning and wake up and ask my husband if I was ust moaning. I do not believe it is related to OSA. Parasomnias are a whole group of different sleep disorders...like sleep talking, night terrors and sleep walking. All are group under the one heading.

Webbie73 wrote:

Here is an uneducated answer. I am not a specialist but just someone who does a similar thing. I believe it is part of  parasomnia group of sleep disorders. Sometimes when I first start to fall off to sleep I make little moaning sounds. Sometimes I can hear myself moaning and wake up and ask my husband if I was ust moaning. I do not believe it is related to OSA. Parasomnias are a whole group of different sleep disorders...like sleep talking, night terrors and sleep walking. All are group under the one heading.

I don't suffer from depression or chronic pain. Just this morning when I woke up, I was lying in a recliner and started to drift off back to sleep. My friend on the sofa next to me woke me up saying that I was weezing and moaning/groaning. This has been going on for about 2 or 3 years now on about a weekly basis.

I did a little reading about catathrenia and it says that it takes place during REM sleep. I can't find anything though about it waking you up right when you begin to fall asleep. I've also been told a few times that it looks like I take deep breathes and hold them in for around 10 seconds or so before I exhale. As if I am holding my breathe. This has never bothered me. The moaning begins right as I fall asleep and startles me and wakes me up.

I'll make a brief list of things that I have experienced:
-hearing myself moan right upon falling asleep and waking up from the sound (happens almost weekly)
-I've been told that I also laugh and moan when I'm in a deep sleep (more than several times)
-I've been told that I weeze or look like I take deep breathes and hold them in for long periods.
-I've been told that I keep very calm facial expressions and don't move at all when it happens.
-I've woken up in the morning and would sit a few minutes, and if I would start to drift off to sleep again, I will moan and wake myself up not even 1 minute after I closed my eyes.
(this has been happening more frequent)
-Sometimes, I can actually feel the slow breathing begin as I fall asleep and the change will startle me and I'll jump up.

Oh, and not sure if this is related or not...this doesn't happen very ofter but sometimes whenever I begin to fall asleep, my whole body will jerk and wake me up. Doesn't happen too ofter but it scares the !@#! out of me

thanks

I think I missed something..are you on CPAP for OSA?

Since I have been on CPAP I sleep like a baby without bad dreams, moaning or snoring. Life is good.

Webbie73 wrote:

I think I missed something..are you on CPAP for OSA?

Since I have been on CPAP I sleep like a baby without bad dreams, moaning or snoring. Life is good.

No. I have never seen any specialist's and haven't been diagnosed. I don't snore at all.