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Facing Up To Snoring
and Obstructive Sleep Apnea
You Have to Do More Than Stop Snoring
You could see it was hard for Marian Whitehead to talk about her husband Mark's fight with snoring and obstructive sleep apnea. "I'd lay there at night and listen to him. He'd stop breathing. Suddenly be gasping for air. Seem to wake up. Then drift back to sleep. This happened over and over again and I didn't know what to do."|
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"This went on all night long. Night after night. Maybe as often as 60 or 70 times an hour." "I thought if he could just quit snoring things would be okay. But you know how men are. They don't take care of themselves like they should. And for sure won't go to the doctor unless they're bleeding." Mark would wake up feeling tired. He could fall asleep at the drop of a hat. But he had no clue what was wrong. Mark's case isn't unusual. Usually, most patients dealing with snoring and obstructive sleep apnea don't know what's going on." |
"Finally I couldn't take it any more. I confronted Mark and told him how many times he stops breathing every night and how scared I was he wouldn't wake up. It was like he was choking and almost dying all night long."
Did You Know? 4% of men and about 2% of women suffer from sleep apnea. But if you're overweight you're at much higher risk. And with more people with weight problems this number of cases of snoring and obstructive sleep apnea is only going to increase.
Anyway in Mark's case a sleep study at a sleep clinic confirmed the diagnosis. No typical stop snoring remedies would help. He got himself a cpap machine and two people are sleeping much better ever since.
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