Sleep Apnea
Sleep Apnea
By:
Matthew George
Com/156
What if you were cutting years from your life away and what’s worse is happening while you sleep? Do you find yourself feeling fatigued over the daytime and people closest to you complain about your loud snoring at night? You could be like most Americans and have an undiagnosed sleeping disorder known as Sleep Apnea. “Sleep apnea is a potentially serious sleep disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts. You may have sleep apnea if you snore loudly and you feel tired even after a full night 's sleep.” (Sleep Apnea, Para. 1) Getting a full well rested night’s sleep is important to everyone and those with this disorder are not able to get their 8 to 10 hours of need sleep at night. Not getting this sleep goes beyond just feeling tired the next day and not having energy to complete daily tasks, but there are some serious health risks involved like strokes, heart attacks, and obesity. Which starts a serious health cycle of becoming obesity from sleep apnea and being obese has major effects on having sleep apnea. Since this disorder is fairly new in the medicine world, its signs are hard to diagnose and there isn’t a lot of test for it, getting to the doctor to find a specialist a first step many never take. The longer you go without getting checked out, just remember, even though Sleep apnea is a disorder linked with obesity, sleep apnea has negative effects on your sleep and quality of life, because sleep apnea can shorten your life by 10 years and sleep apnea blocks your airways so you can’t breathe while you sleep.
Many people have their sleep apnea go un-diagnosed because they are unaware of what to look for or even what it is. Sleep apnea is a disorder where while you’re asleep, your airways are obstructed and you stop breathing for short periods of time. Sometimes your airways are blocked for long often waking the sleeper up many of times during the night. Since this disorder is relatively new in
By:
Matthew George
Com/156
What if you were cutting years from your life away and what’s worse is happening while you sleep? Do you find yourself feeling fatigued over the daytime and people closest to you complain about your loud snoring at night? You could be like most Americans and have an undiagnosed sleeping disorder known as Sleep Apnea. “Sleep apnea is a potentially serious sleep disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts. You may have sleep apnea if you snore loudly and you feel tired even after a full night 's sleep.” (Sleep Apnea, Para. 1) Getting a full well rested night’s sleep is important to everyone and those with this disorder are not able to get their 8 to 10 hours of need sleep at night. Not getting this sleep goes beyond just feeling tired the next day and not having energy to complete daily tasks, but there are some serious health risks involved like strokes, heart attacks, and obesity. Which starts a serious health cycle of becoming obesity from sleep apnea and being obese has major effects on having sleep apnea. Since this disorder is fairly new in the medicine world, its signs are hard to diagnose and there isn’t a lot of test for it, getting to the doctor to find a specialist a first step many never take. The longer you go without getting checked out, just remember, even though Sleep apnea is a disorder linked with obesity, sleep apnea has negative effects on your sleep and quality of life, because sleep apnea can shorten your life by 10 years and sleep apnea blocks your airways so you can’t breathe while you sleep.
Many people have their sleep apnea go un-diagnosed because they are unaware of what to look for or even what it is. Sleep apnea is a disorder where while you’re asleep, your airways are obstructed and you stop breathing for short periods of time. Sometimes your airways are blocked for long often waking the sleeper up many of times during the night. Since this disorder is relatively new in
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