Snoring, Can It Affect a Marriage?

Can snoring be grounds for divorce? Can it ruin a marriage? Maybe not but snoring and sleep apnea can cause tension between an otherwise harmonious couple. It's time to silence the snoring and get sleep apnea treatments.

If your partner is a chronic snorer, you could experience classic signs of sleep deprivation- memory, learning, and reasoning difficulties. You could also suffer from headaches, burn-out, irritability, and depression.

The snorer also faces health risks as snoring can be a manifestation of sleep apnea- repeated cessation of breathing during sleep. Sufferers have a 30% greater risk for heart attack and an elevated risk for stroke, high blood pressure, and diabetes.

All things aside, studies show that couple who struggle with sleep apnea have a higher divorce rate than those who sleep peacefully.

Effective dental treatments are available for both snoring and sleep apnea. Call Rubino Dentistry at 847-825-1002 today. We help protect your health, and maybe, your marriage. 

Sleep Apnea 101

Imagine you just got home from work, you're tired, you ate dinner, watch some TV, and now are ready for some well-deserved rest. You even go to bed an hour early so you can get some more sleep. 

Sounds like a nice scenario, right? Well, this is a common scenario for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people every day. Some of those people have something called sleep apnea which can really put distress on your sleep quality and even more importantly, the oxygen to your body (yes, that includes your brain). 

What is sleep apnea? Sleep apnea is a rather serious sleeping disorder which happens when the breathing you have during sleep is interrupted. For some people, their sleep can be interrupted multiple times during the night, perhaps dozens to hundreds of times. This means that with all those interruptions of not breathing during the night, your body may not be getting enough oxygen, this affects your body. 

There are two kinds of sleep apnea: obstructive sleep apnea and central sleep apnea. Obstructive sleep apnea, or OSA, is much more common for people to have than CSA; this is when there is a blockage in the airway that causes the apnea. Usually, this is caused by soft tissue collapsing in the back of the throat. CSA is less common and the airway is not blocked. With CSA, the brain forgets to signal to the muscles that they have to breathe; this is a flaw in the respiratory control center. 

Ask your doctor or dentist if you are at risk for sleep apnea. Contact Rubino Dentistry - a Park Ridge dentist about sleep apnea treatments. As a Park Ridge dental office, we see a fair share of patients who had sleep apnea but got treatments for it and we see a big difference.