Sleep Apnea

As we’ve detailed in prior posts, obstructive sleep apnea poses a number of dire secondary health effects, up to and including a reduced life expectancy. Now a new study underscores the serious impact that untreated sleep apnea can have on older Americans. The University of Florida College of Medicine conducted a study of more than […]

You’re a middle-aged man. And you’re in good shape. You’re not overweight, you stick to a healthy diet, you don’t smoke, your alcohol intake is minimal, and you work out regularly. But you have obstructive sleep apnea. Turns out, that one strike against you is enough to cause cognitive decline. A new study examined men […]

We’ve detailed how untreated obstructive sleep apnea can contribute to a host of issues ranging from cardiovascular disease to glaucoma to generalized brain damage.  Now add anxiety to the list. Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder characterized by interrupted breathing while asleep, ranging from excessive snoring all the way to periods of not breathing at […]

When a person is diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea, the first approach to treatment is generally the continuous positive airway pressure device (CPAP). However, many people quickly find that the CPAP doesn’t work for them – in fact, it has happened enough that “CPAP intolerance” has become a generally accepted diagnosis. So why do so […]

A few weeks ago, we shared a link from Reddit’s AmITheA**hole subreddit about a woman wanting to know if she was in the wrong for snapping at her husband over her snoring. While that post was somewhere between annoying and funny, this one is pretty heartbreaking. In this post, the redditor in question, u/povao, wants […]

Obstructive sleep apnea is a condition typically associated with adults. But pediatric sleep apnea – snoring in children – happens much more frequently than many people realize. As it turns out, there are some very good reasons why. In some ways, young children can be more predisposed to snoring than adults. A child’s airway is […]

Reddit aficionados may know something of r/AmITheA**hole, a subreddit where users can go and get feedback as whether they were in the wrong in a particular disagreement or argument. Last week, a redditor asked if she was off base for telling her husband not to wake her up…because of her snoring. She made it clear […]

Obstructive sleep apnea is linked to a range of serious health problems, including cardiovascular disease, glaucoma, and brain damage. Of course, the more immediate problem with sleep apnea is that it leaves you drowsy and fatigued during the day. And as one Maryland resident learned the hard way, failure to get treated can put you […]

There’s a popular saying: “Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.” If your partner is suffering from chronic snoring due to obstructive sleep apnea, you suffer from it too on some level, as it impacts you as well as them. So what do you do if your partner’s snoring is reducing […]