What are the dangers of
Sleep Apnea Side Effects ?
If sleep apnea side effects were not so serious, many people would be happy to go to sleep. But it's not so easy to sleep when you know that you have a real problem with sleep apnea. As time passes, sleep apnea becomes more serious and dangerous to your life. All aspects of your life will be affected by this sleep disorder.
You will start with a very bad sleep, with nights struggling to breathe and noisy snoring that probably makes your partner to wonder about you and your future together.
You will have negative changes in personality, a poor work performance and a continuous decrease of quality of life.
And this is only the beginning...
Let's suppose that you avoid to treat sleep apnea for a period of time. What will happen to you? Well, at first you will be affected by serious health problems, like:
- heart arrhythmia,
or abnormal heart rhythmThis problem is very common at patients with sleep apnea. Your heart may have long pauses between beats, even 2 or 3 seconds long, or extra beats. Sleep apnea arrhythmia, which appear during sleep, is a risk of sudden death. If you didn't know this, now you have a reason to be afraid to sleep.The good news is that when you start CPAP therapy, this problem will disappear.
- There is a strong correlation between
sleep apnea and obesity.
Obesity is known to have an influence on sleep disordered breathing, and to affect sleep quality.
- low blood oxygen level is another one of the typical sleep apnea side effects responsible for worsening your health.
Your blood oxygen level will decrease during the night. With each sleep apnea episode, your blood oxygen will drop to an abnormal level and affect your cells. The most affected organ of your body will be the brain. That's why you may have memory loss, strange judgments, loss of balance and loss of proper coordination of movements. You'll be surprised to find simple work tasks to be too difficult to do.
- high blood pressure symptoms
appear as effects of your low blood oxygen level. If this symptoms continue to appear, the risk of
sleep apnea stroke
will increase to an alarming level.
- sleep apnea and congestive heart failure
are often found together, especially if you have central sleep apnea.This side effect of sleep apnea results from delivery of low blood oxygen level to the body tissues.
- Scientists have found that sleep deprivation from sleep apnea disorder may be an important risk factor in
the development of diabetes.
- car accidents are very common at drivers with sleep apnea.
The main reason is
drowsy driving,
which results from excessive daytime sleepiness.
- Sleep Apnea and Anxiety
- many people with panic attacks complains about sleep apnea symptoms. What is the truth, anyway?
- Can sleep apnea cause death?
Knowing all sleep apnea side effects, you will now wonder if
sleep apnea is deadly.
And I think you already know the answer, isn't it?
Your quality of life will be seriously affected.
Sleep apnea and depression
is a tough combination. The risk of depression rises when you see your work performance is affected or your bed partner announces to leave you.
Psychological problems, like irritability, anger, loss of memory and confusion will slowly destroy your mental health.
Enough with bad news!
I want to remember that all this health problems can disappear if you use a proper treatment of sleep apnea.
The CPAP therapy
can help eliminate many of these sleep apnea side effects, even from the first days of use!Many people discover that sleeping on the side of the body can make a huge improvement on their sleep apnea. Although I am in the same situation,
this sleep apnea pillow changed my life completely, even from my first night!
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