Find Out If You’re Prone to Sleep Apnea

There are two principle types of sleep apnea. The vast majority of apneas that people have are called obstructive sleep apnea. There is another type of apnea called central sleep apnea, which is less common, and that's really where the brain is just not telling the body to breathe, but the vast majority of people struggle with obstructive sleep apnea, which is caused by the tongue and other tissues falling back and occluding, or blocking, the airway, so really collapsing during sleep, preventing airflow.
The patient is trying to breathe, and yet everything is collapsed. And it creates this cycle where it could go on for 10 seconds, 20 seconds, 30 or more seconds at a time where your patient is not breathing, and then the body, something triggers the body to have an arousal, and they might kind of gasp or choke or just turn and twist. The body is fighting for oxygen, and there's an arousal and the patient is not necessarily gonna arouse and become awake, but they're gonna wake up enough to start breathing again. Then the problem is that this will continue over and over and over again throughout the night depending on how severe a case they have, but that's why the people wake up and they're not very well rested.