Do you often find yourself waking up feeling as if you didn’t sleep the night before, as if you didn’t get a fulfilling, good night’s sleep? Does your partner often tell you that you snore heavily during sleep?
If you answer YES to these questions, you could have sleep apnea. People with this disorder may show sudden move swings, anger, and they can be a little irritable in general.
Sleep apnea strips the time your body needs to repair muscles and analyze memories during the deep sleep (REM). It causes some notable emotional and personality changes that could easily contribute to your overall downfall if not cured at the earliest.
The good news is that sleep apnea is curable. We have a sleep apnea specialist at 7 Day Dental to help you enjoy proper sleep.
How Sleep Apnea Causes Personality Changes
Sleep apnea deprives you of quality sleep. Without proper rest during the night, you stay inactive and sleepy throughout the day.
Over time, sleep apnea affects your mental health and therefore makes visible changes to your personality. These changes affect others and therefore may have a major impact on your emotional and social life.
Underneath these personality changes, it’s basically something blocking your airway when you are sleeping. With lack of oxygen, your brain doesn’t act normally. It announces an emergency, waking you up as a consequence. Once normal breathing is restored, you go back to sleep.
Since these events can be numerous (sometimes more than 100 in a single night), you never enjoy quality sleep. You wake up with a heavy head and a tired body. Sleep deprivation in the night affects your day, which contributes to major changes in your personality over time.
You have Anxiety
When you are not enjoying proper sleep at night, one of the obvious outcomes is anxiety. You feel tired throughout the day and fail to achieve the expected. As a result, you start feeling anxious.
Waking up at night several times could easily contribute to severe anxiety as your brain continually perceives the threat of interrupted breathing while you are sleeping. This problem could easily lead to mental health issues and influence your personality negatively.
Your Relationship Suffers
When you snore at night, your spouse will consider sleep in a separate bedroom at some point. This can influence your sex life and therefore contribute to personality changes and stress for both partners.
Relationship problems can damage your physical and mental health, leaving a long-lasting impact on your longevity and overall well-being. It’s important to treat sleep apnea before it takes over your life.
You don’t Enjoy Dreaming
When you enjoy normal sleep, you start dreaming when you arrive at the second to last of five sleep stages. This stage, known as Rapid Eye Movement (REM), changes your brain and body activity. Your brain activity increases while your body relaxes. You typically reach this stage in an hour after sleeping.
With sleep apnea, you never reach REM sleep. You wake up frequently, making it impossible for you to enter the advanced sleep stages. As a result, you rarely enjoy dreaming.
Your inability to dream could easily influence your personality and overall health. It can contribute to increased anxiety and memory problems in addition to other health problems.
So, What can You do to Treat Your Sleep Apnea?
Often times, visiting the doctor’s office is not the best choice. The doctor will prescribe CPAP, or Continuous Positive Airway Pressure, a mask like contraption, which forces oxygen into your system.
The CPAP, however, has a fifty to seventy-five percent rejection rate. So, why not turn to another solution—an alternative?
That’s why you should visit 7 Day Dental. Although it sounds quite odd, 7 Day Dental’s very own Dr. Frank Burrell is an expert in sleep apnea. He is able to administer a different treatment—that being a retainer like a device that will hold your tongue down, preventing your tongue from blocking your airways and therefore stopping heavy snoring, snorting, choking, and gasping. It has a low rejection rate, and thus should be the solution to your sleep apnea!
“As a dentist who has been treating sleep apnea for a long time, I will do everything I can to help you get the proper treatment you need to enjoy the benefits of a full night’s sleep.” ~ Dr. Frank Burrell
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