Sleep Apnea SolutionsSleep apnea? If you're anything like me, you'll be:
waking up nightly, gasping and choking for breath ---
when you do sleep, you'll be snoring to wake the house ---
you'll be tired all the time, feeling like you never slept at all ---
falling asleep at inappropriate times will be 'normal' ---
you will feel irritable and listless ---
you'll probably have high blood pressure ---
it'll be hard for you to lose that extra weight that hangs around.
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If this is you, hello friend, you're on the right page! - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi everyone, my name is Frances and I suffer from obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). I have had this condition for the last 10 years.
My purpose for starting this website is to help others sufferers from going through the same problems that I had. I have tried a number of different remedies and equipment with varying success. It has been a rocky journey, and my sincere hope is that I can alleviate some of the discomfort and distress others might have due to the lack of any knowledge on their part. I will be telling you on the different pages of this site about the remedies I tried, which have worked and which have not, and why.
There are several sleep-related disorders of which OSA is the most serious. I will describe the sleep study and the home tests. You'll find the causes, the physical and those that arise from your lifestyle. There are various treatments for apnea and snoring, from the natural to the surgical and everything in-between. Tips on healthy effective sleep are here and the side effects of this untreated condition listed.
The CPAP machine, lifesaver (literally) or torture machine? Here's an overall view with alternatives for you to try. If you think that you or someone you know, might have a sleep apnea problem, see the doctor, or advise them to see a doctor. In any case you may be comforted by the fact that there is help out there for sleep apnea, life can become more comfortable. It has for me and I would like to show you how.
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Definition of sleep apnea
" Sleep Apnea (Apnoea), also known as Sleep-Disordered breathing, is a serious sleep disorder that is recognised by one's breathing being interrupted during sleep. If this condition is untreated, patients stop breathing repeatedly during sleep, sometimes hundreds of times, resulting in insufficient rest and consequently tiredness and fatigue, and this gives rise to other medical problems.
Two distinct types are Obstructive Sleep Apnea, caused by soft tissue in the back of the throat collapsing and blocking the airway during sleep, and Central Sleep Apnea, when the brain doesn't signal the muscles to breathe because of instability in the respiratory control center."
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