Obstructive Sleep Apnea is a condition where a person's throat
closes down involuntarily during sleep. During that time, the
patient is not able to breathe and will awaken repetitively to
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Micheal Frye: Obstructive Sleep Apnea is a condition where a
person's throat closes down involuntarily at night during sleep.
It's worse than snoring is that step beyond snoring, where the
throat completely closes and despite the patient trying to
breathe, the throat is closed and the patient is not able to
breathe. Ultimately definitely, after often as long as 30 or 40
seconds, they will awake and just enough start to breathing
again and began snoring again. But they do this repeatedly
throughout the night and it leads to a great disruption of their
overall sleep. The next day they complain of awakening and
feeling unrefreshed. They are tired throughout the day. Patients
are often prompted to nap. It affe