Imagine being in a situation where every effort to shed a few pounds seems to be an uphill battle. Sarah, a working mother of two, had little time to devote to self-care because of the demands of her family and her career. She tried everything, including cutting down on carbohydrate intake, working out longer than usual, and even swearing by fast

Eventually, the patient reenters deep sleep, upper airway tone is again lost, the patient enters the various levels of noisy breathing and the airway blockage returns. A type of CSA was described in the German myth of Ondine's curse where the person when asleep would forget to breathe. The clinical picture of this condition has long been recognized