How Sleep Apnea Can Ruin Your Life.

Snoring is annoying, Sleep Apnea can be deadly.

While everybody loves jokes about snoring, there’s nothing funny about Sleep Apnea.

It can negatively impact your life in so many ways, for so many years and yet most people endure the decline in both their physical and mental well-being without any idea what the problem is. It can take years before most people are properly diagnosed and treated.

Most physicians don’t know a lot about Sleep Apnea and they often misdiagnose it.

Even when it is properly diagnosed, and someone is urged to undergo a Sleep Study, most people don’t. For some reason, many people stick their heads in the sand and hope the problem goes away.

They do this at their own peril. For every year they procrastinate, their quality of life and their health can deteriorate significantly. And for some, refusing to recognize the problem and treat it can be a fatal decision.

Sleep Apnea is hazardous to your health: mental and physical.

Few medical conditions cause as much damage to as many different parts of your body and in as many different ways as Sleep Apnea.

The traumatic experience and stress of hundreds of choking episodes night after night after night inevitably takes its toll on your heart, lungs, circulatory system and brain. Links to major health problems such as high blood pressure, heart attacks, stroke, diabetes, and obesity have been well established. Mentally, the damage can be
just as widespread and severe.

Sleep Apnea has been linked to Depression along with a broad range of cognitive impairment problems such as the inability to concentrate, irritability, mood swings, loss of memory, anxiety, etc.

Tired of being tired?

When you have Sleep Apnea, you NEVER feel like you get a good night’s sleep.

Never. The problem is the choking episodes prevent you from reaching and staying in the REM stage which is the most important stage of sleep.

People with Sleep Apnea often wake up more tired than they were BEFORE they went to bed! A night filled with hundreds of choking episodes is exhausting even if you do sleep right through it. You certainly don’t sleep well. Ironically, when you have Sleep Apnea your body gets more rest during the day when the choking episodes
are NOT happening. This turns your world upside down.

This explains why so many people with Sleep Apnea suffer from chronic fatigue. They are always exhausted, falling asleep at inappropriate times, tired, irritable and cranky. It’s no way to go through life. It’s no way to die either. 56,000 Americans fell asleep while driving last year—nobody knows how many of these crashes and deaths
were attributable to Sleep Apnea.

You can lose your health, job, marriage, even your life.

Few medical conditions can ruin your life as quickly and as completely as Sleep Apnea.

Imagine trying to succeed at work when you’re exhausted every day. You can barely drag yourself out of bed in the mornings. You go to work with large bags under your eyes. You fall asleep in meetings. Your ability to manage and think strategically suffers. Your work performance declines while your anxiety level soars. You know you’re not doing a good job. So do your co workers. So does your boss.

Imagine trying to have a successful marriage or being a good parent when your mental and physical health get worse day by day. Your mood swings, depression, irritability, anxiety and chronic fatigue make your homelife a nightmare for you and everyone around you.