Regular snoring versus sleep apnea

SewTired wrote:Regular snoring easily stops when you move position. Apnea snoring often does not go away with position movement.

back when my wife kicked me, I stopped snoring as I adjusted my position all the time. Otherwise she would have just left the room.

SewTired wrote:Regular snoring easily stops when you move position. Apnea snoring often does not go away with position movement.

citation please.

For years I thought I had a very robust immune system. I would wake up with a very sore throat and it would go away in about four hours. So it looked like I had again concurred a cold. After a few weeks of XPAP I realized that it was the snoring destroying my throat.

I've wondered for awhile about the connection between snoring and apnea. Presumably one wouldn't snore with the mouth closed (Tape?), so what impact might a no-snore, closed mouth (without a Cpap), have on apnea?

No snore/closed mouth but apnea diagnosis just means your throat still closes up (you wear a nasal mask).

Snoring does not automatically mean you have apnea, but it's one symptom of it if you do... Lots of us never snored, but still have OSA.

And side sleeping instead of back sleeping can lessen or even stop snoring, but it doesn't mean you don't have apnea (or that you do, but it could be positional).

I guess I should be more precise. Is there any way that reducing or even eliminating snoring is of any benefit as respects apnea?

If snoring is caused by nasal blockage (whether or not you have apnea - and that's always about airway blockage whatever the origin) I guess it's possible that fixing it would help... only you'd have to be tested afterward to see if it somehow 'cured' your apnea... and I have no way of knowing if it would or would not do so in you personally... your MD might think so, but only a sleep study (or Apap home testing) could say for sure.

After explaining that I cannot get enough sleep and have been this way since age six, the best theory I have yet heard is that serious loud snoring prevents you from going into deep sleep for enough time. If without apnea events, this accounts for the tiredness that one feels. I wonder if that is true. Anyone have an opinion?

Pesser wrote:After explaining that I cannot get enough sleep and have been this way since age six, the best theory I have yet heard is that serious loud snoring prevents you from going into deep sleep for enough time. If without apnea events, this accounts for the tiredness that one feels. I wonder if that is true. Anyone have an opinion?

For sure snoring plays a role. They came up with a study that showed that both sleep apnea and heavy snoring cause memory decline. Snoring probably isn't as bad as sleep apnea. But I can imagine what decades of oxygen desats could do to the brain.

I'm trying to save myself from that, before it's too late.

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Pesser wrote:After explaining that I cannot get enough sleep and have been this way since age six, the best theory I have yet heard is that serious loud snoring prevents you from going into deep sleep for enough time. If without apnea events, this accounts for the tiredness that one feels. I wonder if that is true. Anyone have an opinion?

For sure snoring plays a role. They came up with a study that showed that both sleep apnea and heavy snoring cause memory decline. Snoring probably isn't as bad as sleep apnea. But I can imagine what decades of oxygen desats could do to the brain.

I agree with you. I have never been able to understand how loud consistent snoring can be overlooked by medical professionals (this is without apnea events). The strain on your stomach, lungs, neck, etc... is extraordinary! Or at least I think it is! That is over a long period of time!

tiredandscared wrote:I'm trying to save myself from that, before it's too late.

An XPAP machine will put a stop to snoring. Buying a machine for just that reason seems to be a good idea. I only wonder how right I really am?