Travels with (my husband's) CPAP
Are you thinking about traveling and have concerns about taking your CPAP? I can tell you from personal experience over the past 8 years,...
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SOMNEA BLOG
Sleep resources from the Somnea team
Amber Carmen Arroyo, PhD
- Jun 27
- 2 min
How CPAP keeps your heart healthy
Untreated sleep apnea puts extra stress on the heart and makes it work harder. As the heart works harder due to untreated sleep apnea,...
Amber Carmen Arroyo, PhD
- Jun 27
- 2 min
Bed partners appreciate CPAP
Did you know that using CPAP can help your partner sleep better? Studies show partners of people with sleep apnea sleep better when their...
Amber Carmen Arroyo, PhD
- Apr 1
- 2 min
Overcome CPAP claustrophobia
When you have sleep apnea, your airway can close up while you sleep and make you stop and start breathing many times throughout your...
Robyn Woidtke, MSN, RN, RPSGT, CCSH
- Apr 1
- 2 min
Help your bed partner sleep better
Did you know that using CPAP can help your partner sleep better? Studies show that the bed partners of CPAP users typically sleep better...
Amber Carmen Arroyo, PhD
- Apr 1
- 2 min
How CPAP prevents snoring
Did you know that CPAP not only treats your sleep apnea but also prevents you from snoring? Snoring is caused when the upper airway...
Amber Carmen Arroyo, PhD
- Apr 1
- 2 min
How CPAP can keep you safe on the road
Did you know untreated sleep apnea can increase your chances of getting into a car accident? Sleep apnea causes breathing to stop during...
James Waring
- Feb 21
- 2 min
Are you tired of sleep apnea?
Being sleepy and sleep apnea go hand in hand. Up to half of patients with sleep apnea experience excessive daytime sleepiness.[1] Daytime...
James Waring
- Feb 21
- 2 min
Keep your heart safe with CPAP
If untreated, sleep apnea can make the heart work harder. The harder the heart has to work, the more chance you could have a heart...
James Waring
- Feb 20
- 2 min
Under pressure with untreated sleep apnea
Untreated sleep apnea is linked to high blood pressure, also called hypertension. If you don't treat your sleep apnea, you have three...
James Waring
- Jan 17
- 2 min
Coping with depression and sleep apnea
People with sleep apnea may have difficulty sleeping and are likelier to feel down than those without it. One study said that people with...
James Waring
- Dec 16, 2022
- 2 min
Are you going to crash your car?
It can be dangerous if you don’t treat your sleep apnea. People with sleep apnea are more than twice as likely to have a car accident...
James Waring
- May 17, 2022
- 12 min
7 things you need to know when starting CPAP
Starting CPAP is hard. Getting used to sleeping with the mask is terrible enough. But there’s also the flood of new information on sleep...
James Waring
- Apr 19, 2022
- 8 min
Your sleep study results explained
If you're struggling with a sleep disorder, such as sleep apnea, your physician may recommend a sleep study test to aid in the diagnosis...
James Waring
- Mar 22, 2022
- 7 min
Sleep apnea had me hungover. With CPAP I sobered up.
Intolerable snoring. Pounding headache. Grogginess throughout the day. I was hungover from my night’s sleep when I woke up. It wasn’t...
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