What are sleep apnea symptoms?
If you’re like most people, you’ve heard a little bit about sleep apnea. Maybe you’ve seen commercials about it, or maybe you saw a pamphlet about it last time you went in for a checkup. Maybe somebody you know has talked about it.
Chances are that somebody you know has it. A 2019 study by Adam J. Benjafield and his colleagues estimated that as many as a billion people (that’s roughly one out of every eight people on the planet) suffer from sleep apnea. A 2021 study by Bastien Lechat and his colleagues puts the number closer to one in every four people. Clearly, sleep apnea is a common problem, and it looks like it’s becoming more so.
Symptoms of Sleep Apnea
In addition to being common, sleep apnea gets in the way of living a good life. Some of its symptoms range from the merely annoying to the problematic, including:
- Snoring loudly
- Stopping breathing while asleep
- Gasping for air during sleep
- Waking with a dry mouth
- Having a headache in the morning
- Having difficulty staying asleep (insomnia, tossing and turning, trips to the bathroom)
- Having excessive daytime sleepiness (hypersomnia)
- Having difficulty paying attention while awake
- Being irritable
- Suffering from sexual dysfunction
However, some of its symptoms are deadly. Among others, Jonathan Jun of Johns Hopkins University notes that sleep apnea can contribute to car accidents, diabetes, strokes, and heart attacks. There is even some suggestion that it contributed to the death of a Supreme Court Justice in 2016.
When would be a good time to find out if you are facing the peril of sleep apnea?
Now!
Now is the time. Tomorrow, even tonight, might be too late if you have the symptoms listed above, particularly the snoring, gasping, and stopping breathing.
Do You Have Sleep Apnea?
The good news is that you can do something about sleep apnea. Take 30 seconds to fill out and submit the form below, and one of our staff will send you a FREE survey that many doctors use to help determine if you are at risk of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). Additionally, we will include action steps of exactly what to do next, if you are a candidate for sleep therapy. Lastly, we will include some tips and tricks that you can use immediately, to help reduce the effects of sleep apnea.
Lastly, talk to your physician about the results and your symptoms. Your physician may determine that medical intervention is necessary. In most cases, if you do need medical treatment for sleep apnea, then it will be some kind of positive airway pressure, or PAP, therapy. At Wise Owl Medical Supply in Marble Falls, Texas, we offer the equipment you’ll need for PAP therapy, and we can work with your insurance to get the best possible equipment at the lowest possible cost to you. We also offer the premier PAP-supply service in the Hill Country, helping to keep your equipment running at its best so that you can run your life at your best.
Remember, if you’re not sleeping well, you’re not healing well.
If you want something different, then you have to do something different. Something wiser.
Are you ready to make a wiser decision and find out how We Help Harder at Wise Owl?
Start by completing the form below. If you suffer from any of the sleep apnea symptoms mentioned above, you could be saving your own life.
Let us show you how We Help Harder at Wise Owl.
