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Spring has bloomed and with it the pollen levels have reached some of the highest levels of the year. For many people this is the time of year where breathing and snoring are at their worst. The minute you lie down you feel pressure on your forehead and your nose clogs up. If you snore it is loud and more disruptive than usual. If you use a CPAP this is the time of year when you are...

More people and their physicians are looking at sleep habits and problems that might be contributing to problems such as hypertension, difficult to control diabetes and congestive heart failure. They are also looking beyond medications to take care of issues like chronic fatigue. Snoring is looked at as something more significant then an annoyance. To find out the source of the problem a...

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...

Today on Yahoo.com the reason I do my job was evident. if you watch this video: http://video.yahoo.com/network/100743807?v=4438098 You will See father snoring and how it disrupts the sleep of his new son. Many of my patients who have sleep apnea would rather deny their sleep apnea, their snoring , their leg movement or their teeth grinding the fact is that it affect more then just...

Oral devices are one of the least talked about ways to help people with sleep disordered breathing. Because of this lack of discussion there is a great deal of misinformation as to who they work for and what they do. Sleep apnea and primary snoring can have a profound effect on not only the person who has it but also their bed partner. Loud snoring disturbs sleep and if sleep apnea is present...

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,...

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...

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...

You go to the doctor to discuss your insomnia or snoring and the next thing you know the doctor...

You have been diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea or OSA and then they hit you with a bunch of words you have never heard before. They start talking about machines and mask and humidity. You are told this is long term therapy. What they do not explain is what the machine does, what types of therapy are you eligible for and what will be the best type of therapy for you. CPAP...