Sleep apnea is a sleeping disorder that occurs when people stop breathing while they sleep.
Snoring is the first symptom and a good sign that you are vulnerable to this sleeping disorder.
You can tell if you have apnea or close to the point of have apnea if your snoring occurs in multiple positions for example snoring your back, or on your sides are significant signs of sleep apnea.
Snoring is the noise made when the air that is breathing in and out is passing through a partially obstructed airway.
Obstruction can occur either within the airway itself or blockage from the opening of the airway or from pressure form around the airway that is closing it off.
Obstruction of the airway is mainly caused by the muscle at the back of throat being so loose and flabby that is falls and blocks the airway.
During sleep every muscle in the entire body is in a relaxed state.
With the muscle at the back of the throatbeing loose and flabby when it relaxes it falls and blocks the airway, sometimes partially which cause snoring or totally blockage which will cause apnea.
Sleep apnea can happen between one and one hundred times during the night.
Remember apnea is when you stop breathing now imagine this happen almost one hundred times during the night while your sleep.
Think of how this will affect you.
It will make you not have a restful night sleep during the night, because each time you wake you stop breathing, no oxygen goes to your brain and other vital organs in your body so you wake up tossing around, most likely in a panic.
Because of the lack of oxygen to the brain you don't remember of it in the morning, but you think although you have had a whole night sleep yet you wake up tired.