Sleep Apnea

Snoring while sleeping? Waking up with headaches and having trouble staying awake during the day?

If you answer "YES" then you have a serious sleeping disorder called Sleep Apnea (greek word: "want of breathe"): a breathing disorder, interruptions of breathing while you sleep.

This kind of Sleep Apnea occurs when the brain fails to send the appropriate signals to the breathing muscles to initiate respirations, usually with decreases in blood oxygen saturation.

This kind of Sleep Apnea is more common. It occurs when the air cannot flow into or out of the person's nose or mouth usually accompanied by a reduction in blood oxygen saturation, and followed by an awakening to breathe.

Sleep Apnea affects more than 20 million americans of all age groups and all sexes. Sleep Apnea can be on a genetic basis.

Symptoms Of Sleep Apnea

Several treatment options exist, such as behavioral therapy, physical or mechanical therapy and surgery. For many Sleep Apnea patients, their spouses are the first ones to suspect that something is wrong, usually from their heavy snoring and apparent struggle to breathe. If you have excess weight then you should try to lose weight and you will see the difference in sleeping. In 99% cases Sleep Apnea is the consiquence of excess weight.