Have you ever woken up at night choking and realized that you "forgot" to breathe? Have you been battling out with your roommate or your wife because of your excessively loud snores? What you’re having may be sleep apnea symptoms, and you don’t want to take those for granted. Normal snoring is not harmful, but it's important to know when it becomes apnea. Severe snoring is enough to merit a trip to your doctor and doctors are taking apnea very seriously now.

Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is condition where your airways close off and breathing is disrupted or stops several times during sleep. In mild cases, breathing disruptions could occur five times in one hour while in more severe cases, these disruptions could occur up to fifty times in an hour.

The most telling sign of apnea is very severe sleepiness during the day, especially in the afternoon. This is not just your typical sleepiness because of staying up late. You know you have excessive sleepiness when you

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