How do you feel when you wake up after a night of inadequate sleep? Tired, fagged out, worn out, weak, touchy etc? If you do not know, this is the same reason why you should <a rel="nofollow" onclick="javascript:ga('send', 'pageview', '/outgoing/article_exit_link/4822964');" href="/links/?u=http://treatmentforsnoring.net/83/what-you-need-to-know-before-stopping-snoring/">stop snoring</a>. Snoring is also known as Obstructive Sleep Apnea. It is a condition where the nasal passageway is obstructed by tissues and muscles of the throat or the upper airway. This condition affected up to 20 million people in the US alone; that not to talk of many more people that are affected from all over the world. Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), in recent researches, has been connected to some form of cardiovascular disease. If you have OSA, you are prone to hypertension or high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, heart failure and cardiac arrests.

Sleep apnea is therefore not something you want to be lackadaisical about, you will need to get obstructive sleep apnea treatment as soon as you discover you have it. This goes past snoring because you have cold allergy, sleep apnea is a more devastating condition that is not even only peculiar to the weighty. There have been myths in the past that only the weighty have sleep apnea but this is not true. Many people with normal Body Mass Index (BMI) have been diagnosed with this health condition which is also known as the Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome (UARS). 

So get this off your mind, you do not have sleep apnea because you are weighty, the cause of sleep apnea in people starts from early in life when the upper airway and jaw area is being shaped. A narrower jaw and upper airway will naturally mean less space for inflow and outflow of air. Whenever a person sleeps, the upper airway collapse and relax. An increased resistance or obstruction of the flow of air through the airways is will cause OSA.

Obstructive sleep apnea is not stuffy nose, neither is it limited to snoring. A complete obstruction of the airways leading to no air movement is what is known as Apnea. It is a repetitive, cyclical pattern which may involve stoppage of breathing for up to 10 seconds each time in the sufferer. While 10 seconds of no breathing may not be so devastating, in some cases, the apnea may last for up to one minute. When this happens, the oxygen level in the blood will naturally start to drop because no fresh air is made available in the lungs. This may lead to increased heart rate and blood pressure increase. This may cause the sufferer to wake up suddenly from sleep, gasping for breath momentarily and going back to sleep. Most people who suffer from sleep apnea do not remember waking up this way. It is therefore a very severe case that requires a potent obstructive sleep apnea treatment.

I know this is scary enough for you but there is nothing to panic about. This condition is absolutely treatable. As a matter of fact, there are several obstructive sleep apnea treatments which are very efficient. One of the common treatments is the CPAP know as the <a rel="nofollow" onclick="javascript:ga('send', 'pageview', '/outgoing/article_exit_link/4822964');" href="/links/?u=http://treatmentforsnoring.net/102/stop-snoring-devices/">Continuous Positive Airway Pressure</a>. This is a device that can sit on your nightstand and filter the air in your room. Once it gets the air filtered, it will start blowing out the air in the room at a higher fixed pressure through a tube connected to a mask. This mask is to be worn by you either under the nose or over the nose and mouth together. The function of this device is to keep your upper airways open using higher fixed pressure from the machine which flows into your airways through the mask.

There are other obstructive sleep apnea treatments that are more of surgical than device-based. If you find it hard adjusting to the CPAP, you can try surgery. The chances of success with surgery are put at about 50 to 70% which is good enough. However you might want to check the risks and benefits of going through surgery with your doctor before going ahead.
This article is not written to scare you or make you feel uncomfortable. If you are not sure of what you have, you can get to the doctor immediately to have you diagnosed. Who knows, you might just be having a peculiar case of snoring.