My Life and Sleep Apnea

The cause of sleep apnea comes down to the blockage of the airway in the back of your throat. When you are trying to sleep the loose tissues in the throat collapses causing you to stop breathing, which in turn sends a signal to the brain that you better wake up fast. You fall asleep again and in a few short minutes you wake up again, this pattern will happen all night. There are many ways to cure this, using the Cpap machine is common and surgery is sometimes needed if the blockage is severe. Something else you may try is to strengthen the muscles in the back of your throat by doing mouth exercises. Quick exercises that you could try: Stick your tongue straight out and hold it for 2 seconds, do this 5 times.  Stick your tongue out and move it from side to side, do this 10 times.  Make a big smile and hold it for 2 seconds, do this 10 times.  Move your tongue back and forth from one side of your mouth to another.  circle your mouth with your tongue make su...

It seems like I learn something new about sleep apnea and various treatments for it every day. I read somewhere about using throat exercises to help with sleep apnea. My first reaction was that its bull but I thought I would do a little research anyway. The first site that I looked at was a dental site where they described various “ mouth exercises ” such as puckering your lips and smiling for an extended time. Another was sticking your tongue out (there were several involving the tongue). The last group of exercises had the sleep apnea patient singing. I haven’t tried any of them yet. I plan on doing a little more research and then try a few of them for a short period of time and then do a follow up post. Feel free to comment and subscribe to my RSS Feed thanks