What Causes Snoring? Snoring is a common occurrence in many Raleigh bedrooms. The sound is made by the vibrations of a person’s upper airway – in the back of the throat. Dependent on the cause, snoring can be temporary or something that’s heard on a nightly basis. Some of the reasons for what causes snoring are
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There are signs and symptoms that go along with having sleep apnea. Snoring is the most obvious symptom, of course, and the one that is usually first noticed by a spouse or roommate. But there are other symptoms and signs that are equally important to pay attention to in order to get the diagnosis and
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The Mental and Emotional Weight of Sleep Apnea. It’s no surprise that when you don’t get enough sleep, you tend to become more irritable and emotionally volatile than usual. You may struggle to keep a calm tone of voice with your children or find yourself snapping at your spouse or co-worker over nothing. Not only
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You Don’t Have to Keep Snoring! Sleep apnea: it’s more than snoring, though that’s often how it starts. In the most severe cases, the central nervous system’s attempts to get oxygen to result in several periods of wakefulness through the night. Most people don’t realize they are waking up so much or how little sleep
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Why Do I Need A Sleep Study? When patients find out that Dr. Agarwal can make an oral appliance to help with snoring, one of their first questions is, “Why do I need a sleep study?” Though sleep medicine and dentistry overlap through the treatment of sleep apnea and bruxism, they remain two different branches
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Every morning, you wake up feeling like you’ve been chewing the same piece of gum for hours on end. Your jaw aches. Your head aches. You want to go back to sleep, but that’s not going to help anything today. The joint where your mandible meets the rest of your skull is called the temporomandibular
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Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is like a mastermind, silently pulling strings behind the scenes to make your life a little more miserable every day. If you’ve never researched sleep apnea before, you might think that the condition only makes you snore. The truth is more sinister and far more dangerous to your overall health and
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If you have sleep apnea, the snoring probably drives your family crazy. Not only that, but you likely feel tired or cranky during the day. If you haven’t had a sleep study yet, that’s the first step to take. A sleep study will provide you with information about how bad your apnea is and what
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You snore a lot. You know a diagnosis of sleep apnea will mean sleeping with a mask strapped to your face every night for the rest of your life. So you resist. Before you make that decision to ignore a major health problem, let’s talk about what happens when you live with sleep apnea, and if
read moreWhen you bring your baby home from the hospital, one of the most common pieces of advice given is “Sleep when your baby sleeps.” That can be a hard thing to live up to since newborns sleep round the clock, and you, as much as you might like to sleep, have the responsibilities of adulthood
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