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Sleep Apnea
May 2026 · 10 min
Morning Headaches and Sleep Apnea: When the Pain in Your Skull Is a Signal from Your Airway
There is a specific kind of headache that arrives with consciousness. You open your eyes, and before your feet hit the floor, you can already feel it: a dull, bilateral pressure across the forehead or…
By Owen Blackwell · Read →
Sleep Apnea
May 2026 · 5 min
If I Have Sleep Apnea, Is My Morning Coffee Making It Worse?
The question gets asked, almost in a whisper, in every sleep clinic waiting room: if my airway is already collapsing at night, am I sabotaging myself with the cup I drink at 7 a.m.?
By Sophie Alderton · Read →
Sleep Apnea
May 2026 · 6 min
The AHI of 5: What Your Central Sleep Apnea Diagnosis Actually Measures
An AHI of 5. That is the number that, in most American sleep labs, moves a person from "snorer" to "patient." The Apnea-Hypopnea Index — events per hour of sleep — is the single figure that decides…
By Diane Norwood · Read →
Sleep Apnea
May 2026 · 10 min
Sleep Apnea and the Bedtime Espresso: A First-Person Test of Caffeine's Strange Second Life
For four weeks I drank espresso after dinner on purpose, with a diagnosed case of moderate obstructive sleep apnea and a CPAP machine logging everything. This is the report.
By Thomas Greenwood · Read →
Sleep Apnea
May 2026 · 10 min
Sleep Apnea and Your Heart: Comparing What Treatment Actually Does to Blood Pressure
A man in his fifties — call him the composite patient every cardiologist sees — gets diagnosed with moderate sleep apnea after his wife films him gasping on her phone. He starts CPAP.
By Emily Drayton · Read →
Sleep Apnea
May 2026 · 5 min
Sleep Apnea and Type 2 Diabetes: The Comorbidity Hiding in Plain Sight
Most people with type 2 diabetes have been told, at some point, that losing weight will help. Fewer have been told that roughly half of them — and by some estimates closer to 70 percent of those with…
By Thomas Greenwood · Read →
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