If you feel that you are the only person suffering from sleep disorders such as sleep apnea, guess again. Just when you think it is just you or a couple of people suffering from this dreaded sleep issue, sleep apnea has been growing in numbers from recent years and the continuously increasing.
Combine all the people who are suffering from this sleep epidemic and you may finally see the walking dead in the flesh. You may say that it is an overstatement or vague way of putting the whole thing into perspective but unless sleep apnea is given the proper studies and results, chances are this problem will grow out of proportions.
“In the past, obesity-hypoventilation was pretty unusual. Now, in our in-patient hospital service, we usually have at least one or two out of 20 people admitted for that,” he says.
Obstructive sleep apnea is the most common form of this sleep disorder.
It’s the result of muscles in the upper airway, around the base of the tongue becoming so lax, they collapse and close off all airflow.
(Source) Edmonton Journal
wow, that’s pretty nuts that 1 in 20 of the admitted are coming in for this form of OSA!
The problem is not only feeling like the walking dead, it’s more dangerous because of course it overlaps to the driving dead. Staying in focus with quick responses when driving is tricky when you’ve only had 4 hours sleep and during that time you have awoken at least 30 times per hour.
I have searched long ad wide for a solution to my exhaustion, and tried endless methods to recover. Some are funny and some not so much. Please enjoy my blog where I go into great detail outlining how to solve this problem.
Sleep dreams, Caroline the unstoppable despite low energy