“I’m done. I’m sleeping in the guest room until you figure this out" - When my wife stopped sleeping in our bedroom, I knew my snoring problem had become a serious problem…”
In all honesty, I couldn’t blame her. One night she secretly recorded me while I was sleeping. And when she played back the video for me the next day, even I thought I sounded like a 500-pound grizzly bear!
For a long time, I was too embarrassed to admit that I had a serious problem. (I mean it’s not like I was suffocating in my sleep or anything…) So I brushed it off every time my wife would complain. But not having her by my side? That was the nail in the coffin.
So I texted my buddy Randall – an Ear, Nose, and Throat doctor I played golf with from time to time. After asking a few questions just to be sure it wasn’t anything life-threatening (yet), he explained that snoring happens when air can’t flow easily through the mouth or nose.
When the air is forced through an obstructed area, soft tissues in the mouth, nose and throat bump into each other and vibrate. And it’s these vibrations that make the sounds of snoring.
Randall went on to explain that snoring can cause a lot of the symptoms I was recently experiencing (but kept ignoring)…
- Tossing and turning more than ever...
- Feeling tired and foggy during the day...
- Poor attention, concentration, and memory...
- The occasional anxiety and depression...
- Waking up almost every night to pee…
And while annoying, YES, what I didn’t know was that snoring can be the cause of MUCH BIGGER and MUCH SCARIER problems ahead. These can include; Sleep Apnea, Decreased Blood Oxygen Levels, Heart Attacks, Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure, Strokes, Type 2 Diabetes and more...
I was honestly shocked to discover just how dangerous snoring can be.