Symptoms and Side
Effects of Sleep Apnea
A quality night of sleep is important to a healthy
lifestyle. But a common sleep disorder known as sleep apnea can prevent you from getting the restful sleep you need
and deserve.
Side effects of sleep
apnea include:
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- Daytime drowsiness
- Stress
- Fatigue
- Moodiness
- Difficulty concentrating
- Memory loss, and more…
Other more serious side effects of sleep apnea include accidents at work or while driving, high blood
pressure, heart problems, and risk of premature. What’s more, untreated sleep
apnea doesn’t just endanger your
health. It can also endanger your partner’s
health. Since one of the most common signs of sleep apnea is snoring, you could be preventing your partner from
getting the kind of sleep they need, resulting in similar side effects for
them. All of which means that if you regularly experience any of
these symptoms, it’s time to find out if you have sleep apnea.
The reason that patients with sleep apnea experience all these symptoms is that they actually
stop breathing while they sleep. This prompts the brain to send out a signal
waking the patient up so they can breathe. Sometimes that just means moving
from a deep stage of sleep to a lighter stage of sleep, but in other cases you
may wake up completely. But even if you don’t, you still aren’t getting the
kind of sleep you need to feel rested during the day.
So, what causes sleep
apnea? We’ll talk more about that in our next post. For now, if any of
these symptoms look familiar, give Dr. Wade’s Frisco office a call to
schedule a consultation appointment. Dr. Wade and her team
at Stonebriar Smile Design serve
patients from Frisco, Plano, McKinney,
Allen, Dallas, The Colony, and surrounding areas.
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