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What is sleep apnea?
Sleep apnea means that you often stop breathing for 10 seconds or longer during sleep. The problem can be mild to severe, based on the number of times each hour that you stop breathing or how often your lungs don’t get enough air. This may happen from 5 to 50 times an hour.
This topic focuses on obstructive sleep apnea, which is the most common type.
A less common type of apnea, called central sleep apnea, can occur in people who have had a stroke, have heart failure, or have a brain tumor or infection. Even though this topic isn’t about central sleep apnea, some of the treatments discussed here may also help treat it. Talk with your doctor to find out more about central sleep apnea.
What are the symptoms?
The main symptoms of sleep apnea that you may notice are:
- Feeling tired in the morning.
- Being so sleepy during the day that you fall asleep while working or driving.
- Waking up with a headache.
Your bed partner may notice that while you sleep:
- You often snore loudly.
- You stop breathing.
- You toss and turn.
- You gasp or choke.
Children who have sleep apnea:
- Nearly always snore.
- May be restless during sleep and wake up often.
- May have a hard time breathing during sleep.
But children may not seem very sleepy during the day (a key symptom in adults). The only symptom of sleep apnea in some children may be that they do not grow as quickly as most children their age …read more
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