Sleep Apnea Treatment

Sleep Apnea Treatment

Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder that makes it difficult to breathe while you sleep. Sleep apnea can disrupt your sleeping more than 30 times a night and is characterized by pauses in normal breathing, gasping in your sleep, waking up with headaches, feeling foggy and tired during the day and, most infamously, excessive snoring that might keep your partner awake.

There are two main types of sleep apnea:

• Obstructive Sleep Apnea – The most common form of sleep apnea, caused by tissues in the back of the throat collapsing and blocking the airway during sleep.
• Central Sleep Apnea – This form of apnea is caused by a disruption in the communication patterns between your brain and muscles which leads to a breathing disruption.