7 ideas for mild sleep apnea

Have you found that you have:

– incredibly loud snoring
– pauses during your snoring while you sleep
– gasping or chocking after the pauses
– daytime exhaustion and sleepiness

You could have sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is a medical condition where you pause your breathing for seconds – to minutes – while you sleep. Those pauses are called “apneas”, and can happen up to 30 times an hour.

If you have mild sleep apnea (where you’ve got less than 5 apneas an hour), you might want to try some of the following behavior changes to help in alleviating your sleep apnea:

1) Shed weight. Research has documented that the number of apneas lower with the number of pounds you lose.

2) Cut the amount of alcohol your drink – particularly five hours or so before bedtime.

3) Reduce the use of sleeping tablets, as they have been found to make sleep apnea worse.

4) Scale back your smoking – especially at night.

5) Get sufficient sleep, since shortage of sleep has been tied to sleep apnea.

6) Sleep on your side. Stitching a tennis ball to the back of your night shirt could help here. You might also try putting a large pillow against your back or sleeping on a couch.

7) Keep your head and body aligned throughout the night via special pillows for sleep apnea. These pillows will permit you to adjust them to your shape and size, and they will then stay in that position through the night for all-night spinal alignment and comfort.

It may appear that some of the above suggestions are contradictory. How can you get sufficient sleep if you’re sleeping in an unnatural position, and can not take sleeping tablets – or alcohol? To help you with your insomnia, you might need to experiment with night-time hypnosis downloads. Also, exercise during the daytime (not before bedtime) seems to help sleeplessness (and your weight loss). And, there is always the well-known warm baths, warm milk, and relaxing, darkened bedrooms.

If the above recommendations don’t improve your sleep apnea, then you need to see your doctor. Sleep apnea can cause strokes, diabetes, elevated blood pressure, and heart attacks. Also, those that have sleep apnea just don’t get the sleep they require which results in work and car accidents, bad performance, irritation and depression.

Doing all you can to improve your sleep apnea is well worth while. You may wake refreshed and ready for the day with seriously reduced day-time drowsiness – and you’ll be avoiding life-threatening diseases.

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