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Your wife or husband tell you they need to go to bed before you or they will never sleep. You know if you are going on a trip you can not share a room with anyone else because they will complain. Do you know when a snore needs medical attention or is just annoying? The fact is that no matter what a snore is not normal. If you snore there is something in your anatomy that says you need to...

An article was released about teens and the effects of caffeine and technology is having an effect of teens and their sleep. I know I live this issue daily. I have a teen son and a daughter who is just in her 20s. The problem is that we have not created a culture that supports teens and their needs. This article was timely as this week my son took his yearly standardized tests. He...

There are many nights when I perform sleep studies and I realize that my patients in their sleep think breathing is optional. You know the people I am talking about. They will never admit it but you have heard them. Snore, Snore, Louder Snore, Louder Snore then silence, followed by a loud inhale. This happens over and over again all night. But this is not how everyone with sleep apnea sounds....

You see them on television and read about them in magazines. They cost anywhere from $30 to a bed that cost $1000+ Do they really work? Are they worth the money? Well it depends on what you are thinking of getting. I will start with some of the ones that make us laugh in the sleep lab and move on from there. There are several sprays on the market that say they will fix snoring. Well they...

Women say it all the time. “He snores like a freight train” or “he snores so loud they can hear him down the street.” And in the end someone ends up sleeping on the couch. The problem is that that snoring can mean that your spouse could have a sleep disorder. The other problem is that sleep deprivation comes with its own set of problems that include fatigue, short term memory problems,...

This is an area that has not had enough research. The general consensus is that either ADD causes sleep disturbances like insomnia and fragmented sleep (sleep that is not continuous.) Or that sleep deprivation can bring on the symptoms of ADD/ADHD. So how do you know what to look for? How do you know what came first? The first thing is to look for obvious signs of a sleep disorder. Does...

With greater research going on we are finding new reasons why people are tired during the day. A research study was publish in the Chest magazine compared daytime sleepiness in snoring patients as it related to obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. The findings were not necessarily what were expected. The conclusion was that snoring independently affects daytime sleepiness and was not...

Many people go to the doctor because they have something they want fixed. They expect that a...