We will talk depth about this, later on.
Sleep Apnea is a silent killer that strikes in the dark when a person is at their most vulnerable; when a person is asleep.
This alone should be enough to make anyone who snores, or even cares about a person who snores to seek out some resolution; find some way to provide relief when sleeping so as not to stop breathing altogether.
The term apnea is taken from the ancient Greek use of the word meaning: absence of breathing. Sleep Apnea is merely a precursor to asphyxiation.
The correlation between snoring and Sleep Apnea is direct: really snoring is just another word for Sleep Apnea.
If snoring is caused by tissue blocking the air passage; this is an absence of breath.
The sound associated with snoring if the vibration of the obstructive tissue is being vibrated by the body sensing this blockage and breathing with a sense of urgency.
Sleep Apnea is when breathing stops; snoring is when the body forces itself to breath hard enough to open the blockage. The correlation is simple.
Sleep Apnea does not have to be fatal to have a negative effect on a person’s health.
Breathing provides the body with oxygen, it goes into the lungs and then into the bloodstream from where the oxygen it taken to all parts of the body.
Sleep Apnea translates to not breathing; if we are not breathing, our body is starved of the oxygen it needs to survive and operate to its full capacity.
A lack of oxygen causes an imbalance in the blood stream leading to an excess of carbon dioxide. Too much Carbon dioxide in the body creates a toxic state that can result in brain damage, heart disease or a stroke.
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The Emotional Aspect of Snoring
Snoring does not affect people who snore alone. Anyone close to the severity of snoring understands this fact.
The impact of snoring on the people around the snorer is as serious as the health risks involved. People who snore loudly; this means that the noise of a running motorcycle or some other internal combustion device may prevent your partner from sleeping.
A loud snoring sound will disrupt your entire home throughout the night, and every night, this should begin to expose a wide range of problems that may arise due to snoring.
People who sleep with the snorer, or may be in the same room with the snorer, or who share a wall between rooms, even in the same building, know that they are trying to get the depth and tranquility of the whole night Sleep is a futile exercise.
There will be a lot of frustration in such a situation, because the snorer may not be aware of this, or think that there is nothing they can do about it.
Snoring can cause very expensive emotional losses; the following are some examples of emotional disorders caused by snoring:
• Lack of sleep can cause depression or anxiety.
• Break up, including marriage.
• Evict the house for disturbing the tenant. Jobs that are unemployed due to insufficient sleep
• Insufficient sleep causes short-term and long-term memory problems
• People affected by snoring lack compassion
These are just a small part of the many emotional problems of snoring.
The impact of snoring is profound and devastating for those who suffer from snoring. Beneath the surface of these emotional states are the mental states related to the snorer and the person who has to deal with it.
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Some of the emotional states caused by snoring are:
• exhaustion
• frustration
• resentment
• anger
• helplessness
• pain
• despair
• low self-esteem
• confusion
It is not difficult to see how lack of sleep affects behavior, especially if it is insomnia due to snoring.
If you keep up with the snorer, people will soon lose sympathy for the snorer.
So how to solve the problem of snoring?
There are different schools of thought and many ways to reduce snoring, which will be discussed later, but the surgical method will be discussed first and why it should not be the first choice.