Understanding Sleep Apnea and Other Sleep Disorders
For centuries, man has focused upon health in wakefulness, while ignoring the significant portion of our lives that we spend in that mysterious state called sleep. The truth is that humans spend 1/3 of our lives sleeping. Unfortunately, science has determined that a disorder known as sleep apnea that prevents a startling 12 million individuals from achieving a healthy night's sleep. Sleep apnea is a condition in which the airway collapses during sleep, affecting breathing and causing stress on the heart.
the main symptoms of sleep apnea are persistent Loud snoring,frequent long pauses in breathing during sleep, followed by choking, shortness of breath or breathing altogether stops for a minimum of 10 seconds up to 20-30 times an hour. People with sleep apnea do not get enough restful sleep, and their daytime concentration and productivity.
Common Effects of sleep apnea range from annoying to life threatening. during delayed breathing will create your oxygen levels in your blood drop. making your heart work harder and your brain to react by waking you enough to resume breathing. This will leave you feeling sleepy during the day as well as signs of depression, higher blood pressure, irritability, anxiety, sexual dysfunction, learning and memory problems, and falling sleep on the phone or while driving. People with severe sleep apnea are 2 to 3 times more likely for risk of heart attacks, heart failure and stroke.
The good news is that the necessary tests for diagnosing sleep apnea and other sleep-related illnesses are so safe and benign that they are even used in premature infants. In addition, treatments for sleep apnea are both simple and rapidly effective in the vast majority of cases.
The only thing missing is awareness. Your bed partner, roommate, concerned spouses, family members and friends who bring sleep-related breathing problems to the light of day can prevent unnecessary suffering and save lives. Here's some more information about sleep apnea and how Sonno Med can help.
Other Sleep disorders Linked To Sleep Apnea
- Insomnia - Difficulty falling asleep or frequent waking during the night
- Narcolepsy- Difficulty in Fighting the urge to fall asleep
- Cataplexy - loss of sudden muscle control
- Sleep paralysis - Inability to talk or move while asleep of in the first few seconds of waking
- Hypnagogic hallucinations - Seeing things that are dreamlike and not really there while dozing
- Automatic behavior - doing things that are routine and not remember doing them ( driving to work with no memory of doing so.)
- Automatic behavior - doing things that are routine and not remember doing them ( driving to work with no memory of doing so.)Pare
3. Parasomnias - terrors which can cause ou to become violent while dreaming.
4. Sleep walking
5. Nocturnal Bruxism - grinding teeth
6. Fibromyalgia - chronic pain in any or all body parts
7. RLS - Restless Leg Syndrome - Unpleasant sensations in the legs
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