A drink before bed wouldn’t help you sleep
Why is alcohol so bad for sleep apnea? Like certain medications, alcohol relaxes muscles in the body. If those muscles happen to be in the back of your mouth and you have sleep apnea, you have trouble. The muscles relax and block the airway. Well, the airway is blocked anyway, so why not drink? Well, if you eliminated alcohol the airway might not be as blocked or not blocked at all. Stopping drinking is better than trying to get used to a CPAP machine or a dental device. Alcohol is also bad for sleeping for other reasons, such as messing with your normal sleep patterns. It is true that a few drinks before you go to bed make it easier to fall asleep. But it will inhibit your ability to fall back asleep if you wake in the middle of the night. And as with alcoholics, the more you drink the harder it is fall asleep because the alcohol isn’t as effective as a sedative as it is with a causal drinker. An article in the Daily Mail suggested that red wine had melatonin in it, ...