Men— Do you wake up several times a night to use the bathroom?
Frequent bathroom use is often attributed to a swollen or enlarged prostate, but also may be an indicator of a particular type of sleep disorder: sleep apnea.
People who have sleep apnea experience frequent arousals during sleep - often as many as several hundred per night. These micro-awakenings generally are brief and not remembered, but occasionally they leave us wide awake in the middle of the night...and then we decide to use the bathroom.
When sleep apnea is successfully treated, sleep is deeper, more refreshing, and arousals are eliminated. And then guess what happens?
We sleep the whole night through!
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