Article by Kyle Richey

Insomnia and sleep apnea are directly related, and the combination makes it very difficult to get a good night’s sleep. Insomnia is the inability to sleep consistently, and sleep apnea is the medical term for a lack of oxygen while sleeping. The body tries to make up for the lack of oxygen by breathing heavily through the nose. This causes a loud snore, making it difficult for others near by to sleep, too!

In many cases, sleep apnea causes insomnia. While some sleep apnea sufferers do not realize that they are waking up throughout the night, they do indeed wake up frequently. The quality of their sleep is greatly reduced due to the body’s strenuous effort to supply itself with much needed oxygen.

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Question by Nicole: Can sleep apnea cause people to not sleep at all?
i know someone that has sleep apnea and can hardly ever fall asleep. we have been wondering if sleep apnea can cause not being able to shut off and go to sleep or if it’s more serious such as a brain tumor. also seroquel and other sleeping meds aren’t helping her fall asleep so please tell me what should be done.

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Article by George Mitchell Sr.

We generally hear sleep apnea being talked about as being a condition that’s signified by loud, chronic snoring. But that’s not always the truth. Each time a person is affected with obstructive apnea, they snore as air pushes past a totally or partially blocked airway, with all the breathing interruptions happening a minimum of 5 and quite often in excess of 30 times an hour. In the event you share your bed with somebody that hasn’t resolved his or her obstructive apnea, you are aware how annoying this really is. Furthermore the breathing interruptions lead to your partner’s moving from a state of deep sleep to light sleep, however they may have the identical effect on you, leaving you both feeling tired, irritable and not able to concentrate during waking hours.

However, when your partner suffers from central apnea, you might not know that they’re experiencing sleep apnea. As opposed to obstructive apnea that results from a blocked airway, central apnea is brought on by the brain’s ineffectively communicating the right breathing actions towards the breathing muscles. Consequently, the sufferer intermittently gasps for air as opposed to snoring. Central apnea is less frequent that obstructive apnea, but it’s no less dangerous to a person’s long-term health. Both obstructive and central apnea can increase a person’s risk to get a many negative health issues, including high blood pressure, hypertension, heart failure, diabetes, erection dysfunction, obesity, depression and poor concentration. But the most damaging effect of sleep apnea is its weakening of the immune system. As with all insomnia issues, the insufficient sleep that results form apnea causes immune cells to function with less efficiency and therefore decreases the human body’s capability to fight off infection and disease.

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Question by admaster_99: Can sleep apnea cause digestive problems?
I was just wondering if sleep apnea could cause digestive problems and if anybody has had experience. The symptoms I mean are diarrhea, abdominal pain, and bloating mainly. I have a good possibility that I have sleep apnea and I was wondering if maybe these other symptoms could be from it. I always assumed it was the other way around the digestive symptoms causing me to be so tired.

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Article by Anton Hout

For those who suffer with sleep apnea, one simple solution maybe a sleep apnea pillow. These pillows are designed to encourage the user to sleep on their side, rather than the back, making breathing easier. The sleep apnea pillow which is normally in the shape of a triangle helps to support the head and elongate the neck to encourage the airways to remain open by keeping the tongue from falling back and blocking the airway.

What is sleep apnea and how does it affect you? It is a serious condition which causes a disruption of the flow of air to the lungs while you sleep. This causes pauses in breathing to occur frequently during the night and in severe cases cause the sufferer to stop breathing altogether. Sleep apnea pillows are specially designed to prevent this from happening by ensuring the airways are kept open by positioning the head and neck properly.

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Article by Ray Burk

Many people erroneously believe that sleep apnea is no more than a snoring practice. It is correct that the state is demonstrated through snoring, however, the problem is more deep rooted than that. Sleep apnea is a condition where collapsed tissues in the airway cause breathing cessation while one sleeps. These episodes can last anywhere from 1 second to 30 seconds and can occur many times during the night. This results in interrupted sleep and the ultimate lack of oxygen getting processed throughout the body causing serious health problems over the long term. The good news is that the sleep apnea condition has been successfully treated over the past 20 years with Continuous Positive Airway (CPAP) Devices and an apnea mask.

Some of the signs of sleep apnea include, excessive snoring, continuous interrupted sleep, and choking or gurgling sounds during sleep. Additionally, many people are overweight or have excessive skin tissue around their throat area. Inadequate sleep:

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Article by Wellyn Leu

Obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome is a prevalent condition resulting from a decrease in upper airway size and patency during sleep. Apneas, hypopneas and episodes of airflow limitation occur during sleep resulting in physiological changes including reductions in oxygen saturation from sleep. This leads to cessation of the respiratory event, only to be followed by repetitive airflow obstructions. This cause sleeps fragmentation, and secondary daytime symptoms including non-restorative sleep, excessive daytime somnolence, memory loss and other psychometric changes.

It also leads to a rise in sympathetic tone, with secondary changes in blood pressure, pulse and cardiac output. In addition to the nocturnal and daytime symptoms, obstructive sleep apnea may contribute to significant complications including hypertension, cardiac arrhythmias, myocardial infarction, and stroke. Snorers with obstructive sleep apnea have a higher prevalence of hypertension and are at increased risk of postoperative hypertension due to an increased sympathetic tone.

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Article by Victoria Carson

Symptoms of sleep apnea are a condition where a person more or less

stops breathing during sleep and generally wakes up unaware of what

had happened. These people will have pauses in their breathing lasting

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Article by Ouida Collins

It should come as no surprise that researchers have found that sleep apnea and depression are associated. In fact in a recent study scientists have found that sleep apnea causes depression.

Sleep apnea is a condition that reportedly affects between 2 and 4% of the population in the U.S. Physicians however, believe that this number may be abnormally low since the diagnosis of sleep apnea is often over looked by primary care doctors or people attempt to address the symptoms of loud snoring using over the counter remedies without addressing the underlying oxygenation problem.

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Article by Donald Saunders

Sleep apnea is a very common sleep disorder which affects more than twelve million Americans and is now as common as adult diabetes.

The commonest form of sleep apnea is obstructive sleep apnea which, as the name suggests, results from an obstruction to the airways which interferes with breathing. There is also a second form of sleep apnea known as central sleep apnea, in which the brain fails to control breathing adequately during sleep. Finally, some people suffer from mixed sleep apnea, which is a combination of both obstructive and central forms of the condition.

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