Sleep apnea

[Gregory]

Sleep apnea is a serious disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops long enough to disrupt sleep and often temporarily decrease the amount of oxygen and increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the blood.

• People with sleep apnea often are very sleepy during the day, snore loudly, and have episodes of gasping or choking, pauses in breathing, and sudden awakenings with a snort.
• Although the diagnosis of sleep apnea is in part based on a doctor

[Zipporah Schumaker]

When your breathing goes [batshit insane] when you sleep, causing you [to wake up] multiple times. Sometimes [the patient] stops breathing for extended periods of time, which can be fairly dangerous, seeing as you kinda need air.