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Other Symptoms of Sleep Apnea
Posted on 05. Dec, 2009 by admin.
Other symptoms sometimes associated with sleep apnea include the following:
1. Impotence
2. Morning headaches
3. Bed-wetting
Few people have all the symptoms of sleep apnea. Most people show only one or two obvious signs of the disorder.
It is important to emphasize that any of the symptoms of sleep apnea might also be caused by other, possibly harmful conditions. [...]
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Sleep Apnea : Case Study – Mental Change
Posted on 05. Dec, 2009 by admin.
Mr. Arnold was under a lot of stress. His business was in trouble from new competition. His wife was drinking heavily, and their marriage seemed to be breaking down. His business partner was concerned that he was gaining weight, seemed irritable and depressed, and was not his usual outgoing self with the office staff and [...]
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Sleep Apnea Symptoms : Changes In Alertness, Memory, Personality, Or Behavior
Posted on 05. Dec, 2009 by admin.
Sleep apnea can mimic depression, laziness, or personality change. Increased irritability, shortness of temper, or “crabbiness” are very often caused by sleep apnea but may be explained away as the result of stress in the person’s life.
As with the other symptoms of sleep apnea, family and friends often are the first to notice behavioral signs [...]
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Sleep Apnea Symptoms : Obesity
Posted on 05. Dec, 2009 by admin.
Obesity is fairly common among people with sleep apnea. A complicated relationship exists between weight and sleep apnea: sleep apnea makes the weight problem worse, and vice versa. Losing weight usually helps the sleep apnea, but people often cannot lose weight until after the sleep apnea has been treated.
Not everyone who is overweight suffers from [...]
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Sleep Apnea : Case Study – Obesity
Posted on 05. Dec, 2009 by admin.
Mr. Bell’s wife pleaded with him to see a doctor about his gasping and irregular breathing during sleep. But Mr. Bell was in excellent physical condition and at the age of 46 could outrun much younger men in 10 kilometer races. He had seen a TV show about sleep problems and knew that some apnea [...]
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Sleep Apnea Symptoms : Excessive Daytime Sleepiness And/Or Fatigue
Posted on 05. Dec, 2009 by admin.
The most common sleep complaint of people with sleep apnea is that they get “too much sleep.” Sleep specialists call this symptom excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS).
Two-thirds of sleep apnea patients suffer from some degree of EDS, and they may not even know it. People often have simply lived with the effects of sleep apnea for [...]
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Sleep Apnea Symptoms : Pause In Breathing During Sleep
Posted on 05. Dec, 2009 by admin.
Everyone’s breathing is irregular at certain times during sleep. For example, your breathing may pause for a moment just as you fall asleep or as you awaken. During periods of dreaming, breathing tends to speed up and slow down in an irregular manner. These are all normal changes in breathing while asleep.
However, a person with [...]
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Sleep Apnea Symptoms : Loud, Irregular Snoring, Snorts, Gasps, and Other Unusual Breathing Sounds During Sleep
Posted on 05. Dec, 2009 by admin.
The most obvious sign of sleep apnea is very noisy snoring that stops and starts in an unrhythmic manner during the night. The snoring stops when the person stops breathing. It begins again, sometimes with a snort or a gasp, when the person takes the next breath.
Irregular snoring, with breathing that stops, is different from [...]
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What Are the Symptoms of Sleep Apnea and Sleep-Disordered Breathing ?
Posted on 05. Dec, 2009 by admin.
If you have a sleep disorder, you may be the last person to recognize the symptoms. After all, you are asleep when many of them occur. Often it is a friend or loved one who notices that someone’s sleep, or his breathing during sleep, is not quite normal.
So, husbands, wives, children, and friends: See if [...]
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Sleep Apnea : Case Study
Posted on 05. Dec, 2009 by admin.
On the Wednesday before Christmas 1985, Reverend Allen felt himself slipping toward death. This 67-year-old retired minister had seen one doctor after another, searching for the reason for his declining health. Specialists had treated him for heart problems and a variety of other symptoms. But no one had been able to explain what was causing [...]
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