Dehydrated no, sleep apnea just had a study done but haven't gone over the results yet. I don't have any symptoms of sleep apnea except in my chart where they insist on saying I'm sleepy when I tell them I fatigued lol. The tech who gave me the study said I had apnea twice that she thought was due to my position. They said I breathed shallowly a number of times which the rheumatologist Interpreted as sleep apnea. I'm going to ask the difference between that and shortness of breath.
They said the shallow breathing was when i woke up but the electrodes kept slipping off my head, I was having night sweats, so they kept waking me up to reattach. It was kind of a joke since I was supposed to be "asleep" 7 hrs. but actual time sleeping was under 5 due to them waking me up to reattach and untangle stuff as the nasal breathing thing kept moving around. Somehow I think the test was less than accurate Lol
Interesting about the RBC though, husband really does have severe sleep apnea but his RBC is normal (mid). Do you know why that could make it high? Guessing dehydration would be decreased volume but wonder why apnea would. If not I'll ask the sleep specialist when I go in.