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Sleep Apnea Symptoms : Changes In Alertness, Memory, Personality, Or Behavior

Posted on 05. Dec, 2009 by admin.

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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.

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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 Symptoms : Excessive Daytime Sleepiness And/Or Fatigue

Posted on 05. Dec, 2009 by admin.

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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.

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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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