"moderate heart rate increases and parasympathetic nervous activation cause me to have panic attacks, hallucinations, flashbacks, migraines, and what may or may not be absence seizures"

You ever just... wish temporary body-swapping was a thing? Not so you could force these people to go through with it. Just to *dare* them. Call their bluff. Because, holy fuck, who would voluntarily exercise under that kind of strain?

Also hellofriendsiminthedark is correct that the diagnosis of apnea is ridiculous and stems from moral and intellectual laziness. I don't know what's going on -- the constant pain may or may not be causing all the sleep, but the really interesting question is what's causing the *constant pain* -- but that doctor really, REALLY doesn't know what's going on, and moreover doesn't seem to have any interest in finding out. Or, uh, making it stop.

What an asshole.