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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How many times has your sleep partner said this to you in the middle of the night? How many times has your snoring woken you up on its own? You probably know it already, but snoring can be a key symptom of sleep apnea, a life-threatening condition in which you stop breathing while you sleep!
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Sleep Apnea is a troublesome condition. It interrupts your rest, makes you feel miserable, and ultimately threatens your life. And you aren’t the only one affected by it. Your sleep partner wakes up to your snoring and lies there counting the seconds until you breath again. Your job suffers because you are sleepy all day
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“Sleep Study” Maybe those words make you think of a large, sterile room with a window on one side for people to watch you, or beeping machines and people coming and going all day and night. None of this would be very relaxing, which conflicts with the whole purpose of the sleep study. Sleep labs
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Last night, you went to bed at a reasonable time. When you wake up, the clock says you got a full 8 hours of sleep, but you are still exhausted. You have a raging headache most mornings. In fact, you don’t remember the last time you woke up feeling refreshed. Sitting down to drink your
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