Concerning Sleep Disorders and Preventive Care

Truly our body requires sleep, just as much as water and food. For five years, I whore a mask connected by a hose to a machine that forced air down my nose, because I was diagnosed with sleep apnea. This is a condition that causes you to stop breathing while you sleep. In time, it can be life threatening, because as you sleep your body also is struggling for air. It raises blood pressure, cause fatigue, and can lead to heart attack or stroke.

You can imagine that I looked like some kind of alien, or astronaut as I lay asleep with this contraption attached to my face; talk about stopping romance! Much like a fellow blogger, Amy Steelman-Prueter who suffers from another sleep disorder “narcolepsy” there is no quick fix.

As with many of my post here on current healthcare issues, we lack preventative care, which leads to behavioral changes, and promotes a healthy lifestyle. Through being tired of sleeping with this machine, I lost 80 pounds, stopped smoking, and in doing so reversed my condition. Simply it is a matter of choice to take responsibility of your wellness, no doctor can do this for you, only suggest.
If you are truly concerned about the high cost of health care, you can challenge yourself to make a change in your own health issues and by doing so provide health in our system by not having to take a myriad of pills, purchase costly machines as with sleep apnea.

Please take a moment and visit Amy’s website “Empowering Success” she is the expert on Narcolepsy. I find it ironic that her condition states she dreams too much, so she took those dreams and made it a reality, how wonderful! Here is her link http://empoweringsuccessonline.com/do-challenges-stop-you/