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West Shore ENT & Allergy

Otolaryngology & Allergy Specialists located in Norton Shores, MI & Grand Haven, MI

Sleep Apnea

Sleep apnea is a common sleeping disorder that affects the quality of your breathing while you sleep. The condition affects more than 18 million Americans, both adults and children. The team at West shore ENT & Allergy in Norton Shores, Fremont, and Grand Haven, Michigan, have experience diagnosing the exact cause of your sleep, apnea and providing appropriate treatments to help you sleep/breathe better.

Inspire

Inspire is this small, innovative Device is the only FDA approved implant treatment option for patients who have obstructive sleep apnea also known as OSA, but are unable to use a CPAP machine or other interventions. With just two incisions needed to surgically implanted inspire device in the same day, outpatient procedure, inspired therapy, offers a new way to take control of your sleep by putting it into your hands! Craig Hoekzema, MD with West Shore ENT & Allergy has done many of these implants. 

Contact us today for a consult at (231) 777-2625!  

What causes sleep apnea?

Sleep apnea is a severe form of snoring that blocks your airways and stops your breathing for many seconds at a time throughout the sleeping period. Although it's self corrects, and you begin to breathe again, continuous episodes of not breathing lead to lower amounts of oxygen in your blood. This puts a lot of strain on your heart as it works harder to compensate for the lower oxygen levels in your body during the sleeping period.

What are the sysmptoms of sleep apnea?

Patients with sleep apnea are usually deprived of sleep. Chronic sleep deprivation also leads a serious, long-term health issues like an increase risk of high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, heart, attack, and stroke. Along with being constantly sleepy, you can experience:

  • Difficulty concentrating
  • Decreased productivity
  • Depression
  • Irritability
  • Sexual dysfunction
  • Learning and memory difficulies

Some ways sleep apeana can be treated are:

  • Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP machine)
  • Oral appliance
  • Thermal ablation
  • Surgery

 

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