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Someone who snores can often become the butt of jokes. But jokes aside, snoring is no laughing matter. Nearly 90 million Americans snore, most of them men, and very often snoring affects those over the age of 60. A recent survey found that snoring is the cause of one in seven domestic disputes, and 95 percent of
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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.
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.
This damage can range from relatively mild sleep disturbances,
to outright fatal Sleep Apnea (described further in this book).
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.
To understand this in its painful clarity, let's return quickly
to that childhood drawing of the sleeping person (usually a man)
slumbering away after a hard day of work, possibly dreaming
about something pleasant, as Z's floated up from his peaceful,
sleeping body.
Now, how many of us took the time to draw the person trying to
sleep next to that snoring partner? Hardly any of us, I would
venture to presume, took the time to accurately depict the total
anguish that the non-snoring partner of a snorer undergoes on a
nightly basis.
But really, that's where a great deal of snoring-related
suffering is contained: in the life of someone trying to live
(and love!) a snorer. We'll take a deeper look at the tragic
dilemma faced by these people later on in this book.
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