How Snoring Effects your Overall Health & Relationships
Stop the viscious cycle snoring creates in your relationships.
Snoring and sleep apnea has links to several serious health complications, such as high blood pressure, fatigue and higher risk of heart attack and stroke, which in turn suppresses sexual interest. These health complications require a range of medication that often affects sexual function, in turn requiring more medication—a viscious cycle.
Treatment of snoring is easy and pain-free. Many doctors specializing in dental sleep medicine can give you a temporary device to open the airway and stop your snoring the same day you visit. Once the patient starts breathing better at night, many of the symptoms and health problems, including erectile dysfunction, will begin to go away. Getting back into the marital bed, regaining your sex life and giving you and your partner the rest you deserve is just one phone call to a specialist away.
Does your partner’s keep you up all night from snoring?
Does your spouse nag you incessantly about your snoring? Are you and your spouse sleeping in separate bedrooms and beginning to feel less close? Recently, a survey suggested that approximately 80% of couples that has one partner who snores regularly sleep in separate bedrooms. Almost nine in ten people interviewed said that their relationship, and sex life, would be better if their spouse’s snoring stopped.
Statistically, it is mostly women complaining about their husband’s snoring. Men are two-and-a-half times more likely to snore as women. Physical differences between the nasal canals of men and women are a large reason for this.
Snoring can affect a person’s sex life in a host of different ways. Sex may decrease in a relationship because one partner is always exhausted and sleep deprived, therefore not often in the mood. Sleeping in separate bedrooms can have a domino effect in that not sharing a bed can lead to decreased closeness, increase tensions on the relationship and therefore decreased sex.
Snoring is caused by blockage in the upper respiratory airway from the soft tissues at the back of the throat. The oxygen d eprivation that commonly occurs affects circulatory system. When the circulatory system is not getting enough oxygen, it can no longer support sex. When the body finds itself with not enough air, it will shut off parts least necessary for survival. Usually the first to go is the reproductive system.
