WWhy You Snore More As You Get Older And What You Can Do About It
The Huffington Post | By Yagana Shah Posted: 07/06/2015 6:02 am EDT No, you’re not imagining things. Your partner’s snoring probably has gotten worse over the years. You’ve tried everything from ear plugs to sleeping in different beds but nothing seems to drown out the inexplicably loud throaty sounds coming from your partner at night. We spoke to sleep specialist Rafael Pelayo of the Stanford Sleep Medicine Center to find out exactly what causes snoring and why it gets worse with age. “It can start at any age,” Pelayo says, noting that it does occur more often as we age. …
Notes from Dr. Norman Blumenstock SomnoMed provides us four different oral appliances to choose from that can be used for patients with obstructive sleep apnea. Medicare and medical insurance companies generally provide benefits for oral appliance therapy. September 24, 2014 02:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time FRISCO, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SomnoMed (ASX:SOM) announced this week that it has received Medicare approval for its new SomnoDent® Herbst Advance Classic and Flex oral devices. The devices, which effectively treat obstructive sleep apnea, have received full CMS/PDAC approval and were allocated the HCPCS Code of E0486 for DME billing, allowing for Medicare reimbursement in the United …
Snoring, sleep apnea can kill
By Philip ChuaCebu Daily News 12:15 pm | Monday, July 15th, 2013 Read more: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/445233/snoring-sleep-apnea-can-kill#ixzz2ZEv4KtRB FOR years physicians have suspected that snoring is generally associated with sleep apnea, and sleep apnea was linked to sudden cardiac death. Unlike heart attack not related to sleep apnea, which could occur anytime of the day, cardiac death from sleep apnea happens while the patient is asleep. In an article in June 11, 2013 in the Journal of American College of Cardiology, Dr. Apoor Gami, a cardiac electrophysiologist at the Midwest Heart Specialists-Advocate Medical Group in Elmhurst, Ilinois, and leader of the study, confirmed that link. …
Is Snoring Affecting Your Relationship With Your Significant Other?
Posted: Jun 11, 2013 5:47 PM CDTUpdated: Jun 11, 2013 5:47 PM CDT By Randy Key, WJBF Web Content Producer – email By ABC News New York City – A quarter of married couples say they sleep in separate beds just to get a good night sleep. “I can’t deal with this anymore! I can’t sleep!” says Nancy, from Michigan. “It usually turns out someone stomping out to the couch!” says Gina, from New Jersey. Dr. Jennifer Ashton, reporting: I’m embarrassed to admit. I often move to a different room.” “She says I disrupt her sleep. I snore,” says my husband, Rob. It …
Fighting Snoring, and Its Dangers, Together
Dan Hajjar and Anne Marie Jarka-Hajjar before their sleep disorder tests. By LAURA RIVERA Published: February 15, 2007 MORRISTOWN, N.J., Feb. 13 — After canceling a planned romantic dinner, Dan Hajjar and Anne Marie Jarka-Hajjar, who have been married 17 years, spent Valentine’s eve in separate beds, tossing and turning amid a tangle of electrode wires and sensors stuck all over their bodies. Enlarge This Image Aaron Houston for The New York Times Cathy Durkin, left, and Kerry Kelley preparing the couple for their study. In a last-ditch bid for bedtime bliss, the couple checked into the sleep disorder clinic of Morristown …
Living with Sleep Apnea
Living with sleep apnea can be a real challenge, not only for the sufferer but the for the loved ones who share the same bed and/or room. Family members or bed partners are usually the first ones to notice the snoring. They are normally the first ones to recognize their loved one stops breathing while sleeping. It is essential for people with sleep apnea to get medical help. Sleep apnea sufferers are at higher risk for car crashes, work-related accidents, and other medical problems due to their sleepiness. Even though some people learn to sleep through someone else’s snoring, it …
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