Symptoms For Sleep Apnea – Cure Your Sleep Apnea Now!

When my friend Jerry said the throat specialist had diagnosed him as having sleep apnea, I asked him what made him aware of the problem in the first place.

He said his wife kept complaining of his loud snoring so he went to the throat specialist who examined him and recommended he spend a night at the hospital.

A few days later Jerry was shown the test results and informed that he had sleep apnea. I was appalled. I snore too. So does that mean I had this sleep apnea as well?

What on earth is sleep apnea and exactly what are its symptoms?

I picked up a book from the local library and found out that apnea is a sort of breathing disruption and occurs when we are sleeping. If the stats at the end of the book are to be believed, then as much as 90% of people here in the united states might be suffering from sleep apnea and not know of it.

Seems we all choke and gasp for air many times during our “normal” sleep but don’t have any recollection of it. Wow! I somehow could not imagine myself gasping and choking and not knowing it.

Fortunately, because I snore does not necessarily mean I got sleep apnea. Aha! Snoring, Someone said, was totally different from having apnea. Snoring is a result of obstruction inside the wind pipe and brings about the loud sound I will make when sleeping.

True it is unpleasant for my wife but it does not mean I have sleep apnea. However, the book also tells me that if I snore, the chances are good that i might be suffering from sleep deprivation. On reading further, I found out that the symptoms of sleep deprivation include a feeling of weakness when you wake up in the morning like your sleep was not completed, feeling tired instead of refreshed, waking up with a headache, suffering from frequent heartburn at night.

Symptoms of sleep deprivation that your partner might notice include loud snoring, that you don’t seem to breathe and wake up choking only to fall back to sleep again, as well as tossing and turning during sleep. The book however mentions that accurate diagnosis can only be done at the local hospital or sleep center where they have the proper medical equipment to monitor you as you sleep.

How about our children?

The book also had a chapter on insufficient sleep in kids. You ought to have your son or daughter examined if your little child is below five years old and snores, or breaths from the mouth, sweats, is restless and wakes up often throughout the night.

If your little child is above 5 years old and snores, there’s frequent wetting the bed, is poor at studies and contains stunted physical growth compared to other children of the same age, then you should look at taking your son or daughter to a expert on stop snoring.

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