Obstructive Sleep Apnea Symptoms - Other Symptoms

Excessive sleepiness during the daytime (hypersomnia), or breathing cessation during sleep, snoring loudly, waking up abruptly and being short of breath, waking up with a sore throat or a dry mouth, having a headache right in the morning, and finding it difficult staying asleep (insomnia) are many symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea.

Some other obstructive apnea symptoms are sweating during your sleep, getting up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, heartburn in the middle of the night, chest pain while you are sleeping, episodes of you not breathing (witnessed by others), tossing and turning during your sleep, being restless, and nighttime spells of gasping or choking (witnessed by others).

Obstructive Sleep Apnea Symptoms - Sleep Disruption

Difficulty staying asleep is one of the sleep apnea symptoms directly related to the frequent awaken signals issued by the brain. The sleep pattern is frequently interrupted resulting in restlessness.

Morning headache, along with dry mouth and sore throat are sleep apnea symptoms resulting from lack of oxygen to the brain, and the frequent gasps for air when breathing is resumed. In addition, mental impairment from restlessness and interrupted sleep can result in memory lapses, problems concentrating, personality changes and even depression.

Obstructive Sleep Apnea Symptoms - Two Most Common

The most common symptom of sleep apnea is snoring which is of course a difficult symptom to spot yourself and normally needs to be pointed out to you by a sleeping partner. Snoring has many causes and the presence of snoring is not by itself an indication that you have sleep apnea.

The second common symptom is excessive daytime tiredness. Sleep apnea causes you to stop breathing frequently during sleep and the body's natural reaction to this is to wake you just enough for you to start breathing again. The result of this is that your sleep is very light and continually interrupted and you do not enjoy the deep sleep that your body needs to recharge its batteries.

Obstructive Sleep Apnea Symptoms - Common

The most common symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea are loud snoring, constant tiredness, high blood pressure, headaches, dry mouth, depression, heartburn, recent weight gain, memory impairment, impaired concentration, mood disturbances, poor judgment, personality changes and sexual problems.

The main symptom of sleep apnea is stop breathing in repeated periods of sleep. Not all people who snore have sleep apnea, but almost all people who have sleep apnea have loud snoring.

Obstructive Sleep Apnea Symptoms - Breathing

Sleep apnea is a disorder experienced by many people with some estimates put the figure as high as 10%. Sleep apnea is a breathing disorder characterized by episodes of disturbed or interrupted breathing during sleep resulting in recurrent arousals and awakenings. The symptoms of sleep apnea include loud snoring, waking up often during the night, being excessively tired, being irritable, and experiencing depression during the day.

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