Can you have sleep apnea without snoring?
One of the biggest signs of sleep apnea is snoring , but not just any kind of snoring. The snoring that sleep apnea sufferers experience is a kind of grunting and gasping for air. This is exactly what happens because your airway is blocked, and when you grunt, you wake yourself up to breathe; if your sleep apnea is pretty bad, then this occurs frequently through the night. That is why a sleep study is so important: the results of the tests will tell you whether you have sleep apnea or not. Lots of folk's snore, but not everyone has obstructive sleep apnea. But can you have sleep apnea without snoring? I guess that would depend on what you consider snoring, whether it is the regular rhythmic snoring that goes without stopping or the grunting that I had earlier described. While I have read that it is possible to have sleep apnea with snoring, I think that it would be very rare and very dangerous. The loud grunting noise of sleep apnea is a great warning to you or your partner th...