Articles related to "Sleep Apnea"



Definition of Sleep Apnea
Sleep apnea is a serious sleep disorder causing brief interruptions in breathing and disrupting sleep. Sleep apnea can cause stroke and heart attacks.
• sleep apnea • sleep apnea symptoms • sleep apnea treatment • causes of sleep apnea • adult sleep apnea

Sleep Apnea Symptoms and Signs
Snoring and gasping while asleep are just two sleep apnea symptoms. Sleep apnea symptoms are diverse, and include insomnia, exhaustion, personality changes and depression
• sleep apnea snoring • sleep apnea symptoms • insomnia • sleep apnea and depression • sleep apnea and weight gain

Diagnosing Sleep Apnea
Diagnosing sleep apnea begins with a symptom history, and progresses to a complex sleep apnea test at a sleep clinic.
• diagnosing sleep apnea • sleep apnea test • sleep apnea clinic • sleep apnea clinics • sleep center

An Operation Obsession
A large body of research exists to raise questions about the use of most currently available operations for obstructive sleep apnea. Nevertheless, these continue in widespread use, often persistently sought by patients despite evidence against their effectiveness, at least in contrast to that of CPAP. This article considers some explanations for this "operation obsession."
• apnea • sleep apnea • obstructive sleep apnea • surgery • operations

Causes of Sleep Apnea
Causes of sleep apnea include obesity, asthma, GERD, and lifestyle choices. No matter what the cause, the result is the same: breathing is interrupted, disrupting sleep.
• causes of sleep apnea • sleep apnea and obesity • sleep apnea and weight gain • asthma • gerd

Exercise & Apnea: Blessing or Curse?
A recent study has shown that a modest exercise program improves symptoms of sleep apnea. Aside from the good news that a little increase of activity can help, there is the danger that such findings will encourage doctors to perpetuate the already too prevalent practice of "blaming the victim" of apnea for being overweight and out of shape, which are consequences of as much as contributors to the disease. A solution to these problems may lie out of reach of many symptomatic apnea patients.
• apnea • sleep apnea • obstructive sleep apnea • exercise • conditioning

Ignoring Snoring: A Dangerous Truce
This article is geared to alerting people who sleep with annoying snorers as to the danger of trying to "live with" the problem, and the importance of pursuing the possibility of diagnosable, dangerous, yet treatable Sleep Apnea.
• snoring • sleep apnea • obstructive sleep apnea • osa • sleep-disordered breathing

Sleep Apnea - An Overview
Sleep Apnea is much more common then you think. You could be suffering from it. This article presents an overview of Sleep Apnea including a quizz of possible symptoms.
• sleep.apnea • sleep apnea • james foster robinson • suite101 • central sleep apnea

Sleep Apnea and Didgeridoos
Australian aboriginal didgeridoo playing can improve moderate obstructive sleep apnea symptoms by strengthening the airways and reducing sleep disturbances.
• didgeridoo • sleep apnea • obstructive sleep apnea • snoring • sleep disorder

Sleep Apnea BiPAP and AVS Machines
Describes BiPAP (bilevel continuous airway pressure) and AVS (adaptive servo-ventilator) machines, two sleep apnea treatment alternatives to the CPAP.
• bipap • bilevel • machine • cpap • sleep apnea

Snoring and Sleep Apnea Treatment
Provides an overview of sleep apnea treatment, including use of a CPAP machine, oral applications, sleep apnea surgery and lifestyle changes.
• sleep apnea treatment • cpap • surgery • snoring • dental

Childhood Sleep Apnea Symptoms
Sleep apnea affects children as well as adults, causing symptoms ranging from snoring, bedwetting and trouble sleeping to hyperactivity and ADHD-like behavior problems.
• adhd • hyperactivity • sleep • apnea • child

Bullying And Sleep
Can being sleep-deprived actually cause bullying? This new study has found that not getting enough sleep can be a factor in children that bully.
• school bullying prevention • verbal abuse • sleep apnea treatment symptoms snoring disorder ch • children insomnia • sleep apnea research

CPAP Machine Problems
CPAP masks and machines can cause a range of problems that impair sleep apnea treatment, including dry mouth, discomfort, skin irritation and claustrophobia.
• cpap • continous positive airway pressure • machine • bipap • cpap mask

Only the Internet . . .
Only the Internet offers patients with a wide range of diseases, such as obstructive sleep apnea, the opportunity to interact with a large number of similarly afflicted people around the country and the world. Often, the Internet also offers disease-specific informational web sites that allow patients access to the latest developments in research on their illnesses. Some of these permit free, informal "consultations" with experts in the field. Bulletin boards give people the opportunity to post specific problems and get suggestions from others, including not only fellow patients but professionals as well. Finally, some medical journals, prohibitively expensive for most people to buy subscriptions, permit free access to their contents on-line for doctors and patients alike.
• internet • web sites • medical • health • diseases

Trouble Sleeping
Finding the exact cause of Sleep Apnea has proven to be somewhat of a mystery to modern science. However there are natural treatment options with fantastic results!
• symptoms of sleep apnea • natural solutions for sleep apnea • how to get more sleep • treatment options for sleep apnea • herbs to help with sleeping problems

A Night in a Sleep Lab Part One
Your doctor has decided to refer you to a sleep lab for testing. What is a sleep lab like? What happens there? What do you have to do to get ready for it?
• sleep • lab • test • sleep apnea

A Wonder Drug For Shiftworkers?
Provigil has the potential of revolutionizing the 24 hour society.
• provigil • modafinil • shiftwork • circadian rhythms • sleep apnea

An Apneic Abroad
The author recounts his misadventures trying to use his CPAP machine during foreign travels--as a warning to others. He also describes a plan to carry spares of every CPAP part when traveling abroad.
• apnea • sleep apnea • cpap • fuses • travel

Can Your Bed Partner's Snoring Make You Sick?
A new study claims to be the first to show that wives of snorers suffer symptoms of sleep disturbance and the consequences of sleep deprivation, two to three times as often as women with husbands who do not snore. The same finding should prove to apply to men living with women who snore. While snoring is more frequent in men than women (41% vs. 28%), together male and female snorers make up one-third of the population--an extremely common problem!
• snoring • sleep • illness • sleep disturbance • insomnia

CPAP Machines and Airway Masks
A CPAP machine is the most effective obstructive sleep apnea treatment option, and may also prevent snoring if the machine is used correctly.
• cpap • machine • mask • sleep apnea • obstructive

Damaged Brains?
Research findings showing neuropsychological impairment of the type commonly associated with brain disease in patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea, even under treatment with Continuous Positive Airway Pressure, raise fears of irreversible "brain damage" as a consequence of OSA. However, research has yet to separate continuous impairment from state-dependent impairment related to varying levels of Excessive Daytime Sleepiness. Until such studies show otherwise, patients should maintain an attitude of concern enough to keep track of new findings, but resist counterproductive worry and anxiety over the issue.
• obstructive sleep apnea • osa • continuous positive airway pressure • cpap • brain damage

Diagnosing Sleep Apnea
Your spouse and family have told you that you snore and snort (that is stop breathing) during sleep. You are tired all day even though you seemed to have sleep all night. You have researched Sleep Apnea and checked the various symptom checklists. And yes, it seems that you just might be suffering from sleep apnea. What do you do next?
• sleep apnea • sleep lab • oximeter • polysomnoaphy • multiple sleep latency test

Dickens' "Fat Boy:" A Classic Case of What?
The "Pickwick Syndrome," named after a character named Joe in <B><I>The Pickwick Papers</I></B> purports to describe a prototypical case of sleep apnea, but in reality represents nothing of the sort. The fat boy who falls asleep constantly and immediately in the midst of any kind of vigorous activity resembles, if anything, a case of narcolepsy. However, Dickens did not attempt to portray a real-life clinical syndrome; like most fictional characters, that of Joe need only convince the reader to suspend disbelief, not to reflect some authentic illness. The use of stereotypical "classical cases" in medicine militates against identification of the many people with the disease who do not fit the stereotype.
• apnea • sleep apnea • sleepiness • obesity • pickwickian syndrome

Did Sleep Apnea Afflict Johannes Brahms?
Johannes Brahms had many signs and symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea--frequent napping under inappropriate circumstances, falling asleep with extraordinary rapidity, heroic snoring. His success despite this deserves our admiration and emulation in the face of other disabling diseases. Moreover, current epidemiologic data suggests that OSA must affected many others, in times when it could not be diagnosed or treatment, but might have drawn ridicule or even accusations of character defects, like "laziness."
• brahms • composer • obstructive sleep apnea • sleepiness • naps

How to Educate Yourself on ApneaApnea Self-Education
This is guide to learning more about Sleep Apnea, for people newly diagnosed with that diseased, or even just suspected, by themselves or others, to have it. It should also serve to guide those who care about the afflicted--family and close friends who want to help.
• sleep apnea • education • diagnosis • treatment • information

How to Find Diagnosis and Treatment for Apnea?
This article helps guide the person suspected of or newly diagnosed with sleep apnea to locate nearby resources for evaluation and treatment. It also touches on how to approach and deal with your sleep specialist.
• apnea • sleep apnea • obstructive sleep apnea • osa • treatment resources

How to Live with Hypersomnia and Excessive Daytime Sleepiness
The author, a physician afflicted with obstructive sleep apnea and chronic hypersomnia (excessive daytime sleepiness), recounts his own strategies and those of others for dealing with such a disabling symptom.
• coping • chronic illness • sleep disorders • hypersomnia • hypersomnolence

Insomnia
have trouble getting to sllep and staying alseep? You could be suffering from Insomnia! Read all about it here.
• insomnia • james foster robinson • suite101 • sleep apnea • transient insomnia

Migraines and Hormones
More women have migraines because there is a connection with the level of estrogen in the body. That's a fact. From there on it gets more complicated.
• headache • perimenstrual migraine • migraine • sleep apnea • estrogen

Obstructive Sleep Apnea & Surgery
Obstructive sleep apnea surgery can alleviate snoring and OSA symptoms. Surgical options for sleep apnea are usually only suggested if CPAP treatment fails.
• sleep apnea • surgery • cpap • laser • sleep

PHANTOM DEATH
Many who already know that they have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are well aware of the potentially fatal consequences of this disease. But many, many more have the disease without knowing it. This article attempts to use the shock value of a possible case of death in sleep due directly to apnea, in order to gain the attention of the general public, who need to know much more about OSA.
• obstructive sleep apnea • osa • apnea • breathing • respiration

Postoperative Catastrophes with OSA Patients: Two Sad Accounts
Obstructive Sleep Apnea presents special hazards after surgery, requiring adjustment of postoperative care, which often fails to take place. Two cases of mortality illustrate this point.
• apnea • surgery • osa • obstructive sleep apnea • postoperative

Relaxation and Sleep Disorders
It is hard enough to get quality sleep when you do not have to cope with any sleep disorders, it is even hard when you suffer from Sleep Apnea, insomnia or any of a host of other debilitating sleep disorders. Relaxation is one such technique that can help you get a good night’s sleep.
• sleep disorder • james foster robinson • suite101 • sosa • relaxation

SDB &amp;amp; PLMS: What Does It Mean?
SDB and PLMS, two different causes of sleep disruption, appear to be associated in individuals, and in time. This shows one example of the multifactorial nature of sleep problems.
• uars • sdb • sleep apnea • cpap • plms

Self-Help for Sleep Apnea Symptoms
Provides self-help tips and lifestyle changes to reduce sleep apnea symptoms, including weight loss, avoiding sleeping pills and using saline to clear nasal passages.
• sleep apnea • self help • treatment for sleep disorders • nasal passages • snoring

Sleep Apnea and Dental Mouthpieces
Sleep apnea symptoms may be prevented with a dental mouthpiece. The oral appliance fits into the mouth and prevents the back of the tongue from collapsing.
• sleep apnea • dental • mouthpiece • treatment • cure

Sleep Apnea and Drowsy Driving
Sleep apnea and drowsy driving double the risk of traffic accidents and significantly increase the risk of personal injury during a car crash.
• drowsy driving • shit work • night shift • insomnia • sleep

Sleep Apnea and Obesity
Obesity is the leading cause of sleep apnea and you can reduce the symptoms and breathe easier by losing weight.
• sleep apnea and obesity • losing weight • loss of sleep • breathe easier • reduce symptoms

Sleep Apnea Appliance Cleaning
Discusses the cleaning and brushing of sleep apnea dental devices as well as whether denture cleaners and tooth grinding shorten the usable life of oral appliances
• sleep apnea • tooth grinding • bruxism • symptoms • dental

Sleep Apnea Complications
Sleep apnea complications cover a range of conditions, including depression, fatigue, hypertension, sleep deprivation, stroke and even sudden death.
• sleep apnea • complications • hypertension • high blood pressure • stroke

Sleeping Dancing with Death
Every night I would sleep dance with death until I was diagnosed with a sleep disorder and proscribed treatment. Now I dance with a different partner - a CPAP machine and it saves my life every time I sleep!
• sleep • apnea • cpap • death • nap

Snoring
Snoring is a major cause of marriage breakdown and the source of endless jokes. But what is Soring and what causes it? Can it be cured? Read all about it here.
• snoring • sleep apnea • james foster robinson • suite101 • severe obstructive sleep apnea

Snoring more than Embarassing
Snoring can be the first sign of sleep apnea, which can lead to heart disease, diabetes, depression, hypertension and sleeping inappropriately.
• snoring • sleep apnea • fatigue • sleepiness • irritability

The Dangers of Sleep Apnea
The sudden death recently of football great Reggie White from complications due to Sleep Apnea combined with an inflammatory condition shocked the sports world. It also points out the dangers of undiagnosed sleep disorders such as Sleep Apnea.
• james foster robinson • suite101 • reggie white • sleep apnea • dangers

To Nap or Not to Nap: Is That the Question?
Discussion of the different roles of different types of napping in normal people, those sleep deprived by habit or choice, and those who suffer excessive daytime sleepiness and nap as a result of common sleep disorders.
• naps • sleep • sleep deprivation • sleep apnea • obstructive sleep apnea

Tonsils And Learning? There's A Connection!
For some children who do not perform well in school, the usual diagnoses (such as Attention Deficit Disorder) may not apply. The problems may be the result of a serious sleep disorder, and a simple surgical procedure can change their lives.
• learning disabilities • sleep disorders • sleep apnea • children and sleep • tonsils

Where Did My Sleep Go?
Good health shouldn't cause you to lose sleep at night
• sleep apnea • cpap • hearing impairment

Lack of Sleep Can Kill
A new British study released on September 24th states that people double their risk of dying by not sleeping seven hours a night.
• importance of sleep • teen sleep requirements • not sleeping can kill • effects of not sleeping • health problems from not sleeping

Mechanical Effects of Obesity
Obesity is associated with cardiovascular conditions, but it also has consequences related to the heavy weight of fat tissue. What else can obesity do to the body?
• obesity • sleep apnea • obesity hypoventilation syndrome • gastroesophageal reflux disease • osteoarthritis


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