Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Exercise Program To Stop Snoring

There are actually different levels of snoring conditions. There is a primary snoring condition on one level. On another life threatening level is the snoring condition known as Obstructive Sleep Apnea. These two snoring conditions can be differentiated. Sleep apnea is commonly accompanied by choking sounds and life threatening breathing pauses. There are some alarming conditions linked to sleep apnea - hypertension and cardiac arrest. Unfortunately I was not armed with this knowledge when I was a teenager. Every night I used to listen to my father choke while snoring and actually stop breathing. I used to become so concerned that I used to go and wake him when I heard him stop breathing. He had a number of heart attacks in his life, the last one being fatal.
You may be surprised to learn that common medicines for cold actually contain sleeping aids that will trigger and aggravate your snoring problem further.

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