Sleep Apnea Side Effects Range From Mild To Life Threatening
If your friends joke and rib you about your snoring at night, you may be wondering just why you have this disturbing tendency to make strange as well as funny sounds at night, or even when you are just taking a nap. And, though it may amuse your friends and even you may yourself choose to laugh it off as being nothing serious, you should realize that after a point it may in fact be symptomatic of a much more serious problem, and in fact may even be reason to suspect having sleep apnea.
Deprived Of Adequate Sleep At Night
If indeed you suspect that it is one of the sleep apnea side effects that you are experiencing and that it is not a simple case of making funny noises at night, you will then end up being deprived of proper sleep at night, and thus will experience a considerably deteriorated quality of life. There no doubts that many of the sleep apnea side effects that you experience will result in more than simply depriving you of adequate sleep at night, because it can also lead to disturbing your sleeping partner and in addition, it also will make you feel very sleepy during the day which in turn will adversely affect your concentration and lead to poor daytime performance.
Thus, you may either be lucky and suffer from just mild sleep apnea side effects or unfortunately be affected by those that are actually life threatening and among other less than desirable sleep apnea side effects you will have to contend with are depression, sexual dysfunction, irritability, difficulties with learning and memory as well as falling off to sleep at work, or when on the phone, and worse still, when driving your car.
Another spin-off of suffering from sleep apnea side effects is that, according to research conducted on the topic, it has been found that, it is believed, as many as fifty percent of patients with sleep apnea suffer from high blood pressure. However, though it has yet to be actually proven whether high blood pressure is a cause or side effect of sleep apnea, there is still every indication that sleep apnea does contribute to developing high blood pressure.
Other serious sleep apnea side effects include being at greater risk of suffering from a heart attack or being more prone to having a stroke, and there is also a strong suspicion that among other sleep apnea side effects, sudden infant death syndrome too is one such side effect that can affect those afflicted with the condition.
Thus, mainly due to the fact that sleep apnea results in serious disturbances in a person's sleep patterns, whatever sleep apnea side effects are noticed, must be dealt with at the earliest, especially since a number of them can even be life threatening.
