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What Is Sleep Apnea?
Sleep apnea is a common disorder in which you have one or more pauses in breathing or shallow breaths while you sleep.
Breathing pauses can last from a few seconds to minutes. They often occur 5 to 30 times or more an hour. Typically, normal breathing then starts again, sometimes with a loud snort or choking sound.
Sleep apnea usually is a chronic (ongoing) condition that disrupts your sleep 3 or more nights each week. You often move out of deep sleep and into light sleep when your breathing pauses or becomes shallow.
This results in poor sleep quality that makes you tired during the day. Sleep apnea is one of the leading causes of excessive daytime sleepiness.
Overview
Sleep apnea often goes undiagnosed. Doctors usually can't detect the condition during routine office visits. Also, there are no blood tests for the condition.
Most people who have sleep apnea don't know they have it because it only occurs during sleep. A family member and/or bed partner may first notice the signs of sleep apnea.
The most common type of sleep apnea is obstructive sleep apnea. This most often means that the airway has collapsed or is blocked during sleep. The blockage may cause shallow breathing or breathing pauses.
When you try to breathe, any air that squeezes past the blockage can cause loud snoring. Obstructive sleep apnea happens more often in people who are overweight, but it can affect anyone.
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Re: what is Sleep Apnea (Re: willeim andrea)
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Untreated sleep apnea can:
Increase the risk for high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, obesity, and diabetes
Increase the risk for or worsen heart failure
Make irregular heartbeats more likely
Increase the chance of having work-related or driving accidents
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Re: what is Sleep Apnea (Re: willeim andrea)
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Sleep apnea, a disruption of breathing while asleep, is a deceiving sleep disorder - 90% of people who have sleep apnea don't know that they suffer from it. Although episodes of choking or gasping for air might occur hundreds of times throughout the night, you may not have any recollection of struggling for breath.
Warning signs and symptoms of sleep apnea may include frequent silences during sleep (due to breaks in breathing), choking or gasping during sleep (to get air into lungs), loud snoring, sudden awakenings (to restart breathing or waking up in a sweat) and finally daytime sleepiness and not feeling #######ed by a night's sleep (including falling asleep at inappropriate times.)
When you stop breathing during sleep due to sleep apnea, the balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood is upset. This imbalance stimulates the brain to restart the breathing process. These waking episodes are necessary to restart breathing (and to save your life) and they disrupt your sleep and cause daytime exhaustion. Snoring is not the same as sleep apnea. Snoring is simply a loud sound that you make during breathing while asleep if there is any obstruction in your airway. While it may be unpleasant for your sleep partner, snoring is not in itself a harmful condition. Snoring does often accompany sleep apnea, but just because you snore does not mean you have sleep apnea.
When you have obstructive sleep apnea, your throat collapses during sleep, blocking the airway and preventing air from getting to the lungs. Generally, your throat muscles keep the throat and airway open. Primary causes and risk factors of obstructive sleep apnea include being overweight or obese, large tonsils or adenoids, nasal congestion or blockage (from cold, sinusitis, allergies smoking, etc) and finally, having throat muscles and tongue that relax more than normal during sleep (possibly due to alcohol, sedatives or age.)
Sleep apnea has serious health consequences and can even be life-threatening. Some trickle-down effects of sleep deprivation include a compromised immune system, poor mental and emotional health and irritability. When you stop breathing, your brain does not get enough oxygen. Serious health problems can result from the oxygen deprivation of sleep apnea, including heart disease, high blood pressure, sexual dysfunction and learning/memory problems.
If you suspect you have sleep apnea, you should keep a sleep diary for a few nights recording if you are snoring and how loud, how well you are sleeping, and whether you are having trouble breathing. You can also record yourself sleeping. With your sleep record in hand, consult with your doctor or a sleep specialist
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