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INTRODUCTION
Snoring is No Laughing Matter
As innocent children armed with our trusty toolbox of crayons and markers, we often
depicted a snoring person as someone lying in bed with a series of “Z’s” casually
emerging from a peacefully sleeping body.
However, what we neglected to draw – and again, rather innocently – was the severe
underlying damage that was occurring in that ordinary picture.
Snoring is one of the biggest threats to a happy marriage. Snoring is a greater threat to
marriage than a teenage child. It has led to divorce as well as gunplay
The silencing of a snorer -- without pistol or chloroform, that is -- has been a miracle as
eagerly sought as the Fountain of Youth.
The Damage is Far-Reaching
Damage to whom? Well, damage to at least one person, and potentially many more.
Primarily, snoring has the very real potential of causing health damage to the snorer him
or herself.
There are many reasons as to why this happens. The most common are overweight,
clinically significant obesity, smoking and alcohol. As these conditions are treatable by
the patient, a better understanding of why they increase the likelihood of snoring will
enable the patient to tackle the problem more effectively.
This damage can range from relatively mild sleep disturbances, to outright fatal Sleep
Apnea. Indeed, when looked at under this light, those innocent Z’s in our childhood
drawings don’t seem quite so harmless, anymore.
Yet is that where the suffering ends -- with the snorer? Hardly; and this is where the
dilemma of snoring – and it is indeed a dilemma – takes on an added hue of suffering and
misery.
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