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Do You Suffer From Any of These Four Common Sleep Disorders?
Sleep disorders– which prevent restorative sleep and often result in daytime dysfunction– are common among the adult population. In fact, it’s estimated that up to 70 million Americans suffer from some type of sleep disorder. While there are dozens of common sleep disorders that have been identified, the following are the most prevalent: Insomnia Almost half of […]
Snoring: Why It Happens and What To Do About It
Whether it sounds like a bulldozer demolishing your bedroom or soft thunder rumbling in the distance, 45% of adults snore at least occasionally, and 83% of adults reported having a snoring bed partner in a recent survey. Although snoring is a common affliction, its causes and cures may surprise you. In fact, only 27% of SleepRate […]
That Bedtime Drink Might be Doing More Harm than Good: The Impact of Alcohol on Sleep
For some people, tossing back a drink before bed is part of the process to falling asleep. They’ve had a stressful day, with a mind that is buzzing long past bedtime. Unfortunately, studies about the impact of alcohol on sleep say that it isn’t that simple. While alcohol may contribute to falling asleep faster, ultimately, it causes […]
How Radio Frequency Ablation Eases Sleep Apnea
You’ve probably heard from friends and family that CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) machines are the only way to effectively treat apnea. Yet the prospect of sleeping with a mask over your mouth and nose and the whirr of a noisy machine doesn’t appeal at all. If you’re willing to go through several minor office […]
Sleeping Disorder? 4 Ways to Get a Better Night’s Sleep Tonight
What we call have a sleeping disorder is what you call not getting enough (quality) sleep; you might even have sleep apnea. You feel the effects as you sluggishly get out of bed in the morning, and you feel it in the evening as you drive home in rush hour with a pounding headache. If […]
Headaches Can be Caused by Sleep Apnea – Curing Sleep Apnea Headaches
Do you tend to suffer from headaches in the morning? Headaches are an unpleasant way to start the day, and they can be a serious drain on productivity and happiness. Often, they lead to additional stress, sensitivity to light and sound, and general discontent. If you have headaches that hit predominantly in the morning, they […]
Sleep Apnea and Erectile Dysfunction (ED): Increased Risks for Men Suffering from Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA)
Many patients who have obstructive sleep apnea also have erectile dysfunction, and there is a high correlation between these two conditions. While we are not completely sure if one causes the other, it is clear that the two disorders are related. Based on clinical studies, when evaluating sexual dysfunction and impotence in men who have […]
How Sleeping Pills Make Your Sleep Apnea Worse—and What To Do About It
Quite a few of my patients work in high-powered, high stress careers in technology, law, and government here in Maryland, Northern Virginia, and the Washington, DC metro area. Along with their high-pressure lifestyles, many also suffer from sleep apnea (and often don’t even know it), which further disrupts the uninterrupted sleep they need to manage […]
Lack of Sleep and Your Daytime Life
Daytime fatigue is the consequence of untreated Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), and we are poor judges of how impaired we are due to lack of sleep. And when we are driving, a lack of self-awareness of our own fatigue puts us and our passengers at risk for serious accidents. We frequently talk about “the impaired […]
