Sleep Disorder
Wake up and Do Something about Your Sleep Disorder… Are you falling asleep behind the wheel, in meetings, in waiting rooms, watching television, or worse even, in church? Do you snore or wake up frequently during the night?
You may have a sleep disorder and you need to do something about it immediately before it is too late. Sleep apnea is a growing problem in the United States; this particular sleep disorder is quite dangerous. The first sign you may have a problem, of course, is snoring.
Very often chronic snorers have a sleep apnea, which is a sleep disorder where you just stop breathing for a while in your sleep. This could vary from a few moments to as much as a minute or more. This sleep disorder also prevents you from obtaining a deep, REM sleep . You awaken frequently, after an apnea, or cessation of breathing.
There are various causes of this problem, but there is no time to waste figuring that out; get help immediately. When you quit breathing during the night, there is, of course, danger of a sudden death. But, even more alarming is that not being able to sink into that reparative deep sleep that your body needs, is harmful to your body, and especially harmful to your heart. You also run the risk of any number of calamities during a day due to the lack of good sleep. You become, eventually. a walking zombie. You feel like you want to sleep, but you can’t achieve that depth of rest that you need, so you are constantly sleep deprived and can barely function.
A sleep specialist can easily hook a few wires to you while you sleep, performing a sleep test. Most insurance will pay for this. He can quickly ascertain what the problem is and how to go about fixing it. Usually, you are set up with a machine that actually kind of keeps you breathing when you have an apnea by blowing wind into your passages.
The technology in these machines has improved rapidly in the last few years, and there is a very wide selection of options in masks and equipment. Wake up and do something about your sleep disorder and your whole outlook on life will change. If you don’t, you might wake up in a car accident or worse yet, you might not wake up at all.