Sleep Apnea
Sleep apnea is a breathing disorder that fragments the night for millions; find CPAP reviews, AHI guides, mask-fit notes, and science on daytime fatigue.
The Apnea-Hypopnea Index Is a Number, Not a Verdict: How One Threshold Came to Define Sleep Apnea
If you ever get tested for sleep apnea, your night will be reduced to a single number. It is called the apnea-hypopnea index, the AHI, and it counts how many times an hour your breathing stops or…
What PAP Therapy Actually Does to Your Throat at 3 A.M.
The night before my titration study, I clipped a borrowed pulse oximeter to my index finger and went to sleep curious about my own throat. The graph in the morning looked like a saw blade.
Your Sleep Quality Assessment Is Already Happening — You Just Aren't Reading the Results
Most people get a sleep quality assessment every single morning and throw it away before breakfast. It arrives as a feeling — the gray, underwater sensation of waking unrefreshed, the third snooze…
Sleep Apnea Myths: Am I Too Thin, Too Young, or Too Female to Have It?
A 34-year-old woman runs marathons. Resting heart rate in the low 50s, BMI of 21, no snore loud enough to wake her partner — or so they thought. She goes to a sleep lab for unrelated insomnia.
CPAP Therapy Adherence Is a Habituation Problem, Not a Willpower One
You have probably been handed a number. Maybe by a sleep technician, maybe by a forum, maybe by the inside of your own head at 2 a.m.
I Did Both: A Home Test and a Sleep Lab for the Same Sleep Apnea Diagnosis
The advice you'll hear, from forums and increasingly from physicians themselves, is sensible: start with a home test.