Sleep Health
Quality sleep is essential to your overall health, as it plays an essential role in your mood, metabolism, digestion, and many other bodily processes. Maintaining optimal sleep can reduce your risk for serious chronic conditions such as depression, diabetes, and heart disease.
Here’s a closer look at the importance of sleep health, common types of sleep disorders, and steps you can take today to start getting higher-quality sleep.
Why Is Sleep So Important for Your Health?
Sleep is your body’s time to relax, refresh, recharge, and heal itself. Quality sleep can help balance your hormones and brain chemicals, including those that control your appetite, libido, and reproductive system. It can help you stay alert and focused during the day and provide you with the energy you need to perform your favorite daily activities. It can also help regulate your mood and prevent you from feeling cranky and irritable.
According to the CDC, adults need at least seven hours of sleep per night to benefit from the greatest health and well-being. When you fail to get enough sleep, you face a higher risk of developing one or more chronic conditions that can affect your overall health and quality of life. Poor quality sleep can also affect your career, education, and relationships and hold you back from fulfilling long-term goals.
Sleep disorders can be especially detrimental to your health, as many of these are chronic conditions that often require long-term treatment. Therefore, addressing sleep disorders early on is important, as doing so can usually help you reduce your risk for other related conditions.
What Are Common Sleep Disorders?
Sleep disorders are conditions that affect the way you sleep. The most common sleep disorders are insomnia, sleep apnea, narcolepsy, and restless legs syndrome.
Insomnia is a condition where you have difficulty falling asleep or are unable to stay asleep during the night. Sleep apnea is a condition characterized by pauses in breathing while you sleep, which can often cause you to wake several times abruptly throughout the night.
People with narcolepsy suffer from excessive daytime sleepiness and may suddenly fall asleep at random times during the day. Restless legs syndrome causes you to experience an uncontrollable urge to move or shake your legs when trying to fall asleep.
In many instances, people with sleep disorders do not know they have a disorder due to the way symptoms typically occur at night when they’re trying to sleep. As a result, sleep disorders can sometimes be difficult to diagnose. Most people who have a suspected sleep disorder are usually encouraged to participate in sleep studies. They can be closely watched and monitored by doctors and sleep specialists who can accurately diagnose and treat their conditions.
What Steps Can You Take to Improve Sleep Health?
Practicing certain behaviors can help you sleep better at night and reduce your risk of developing a sleep disorder. Many of these behaviors involve improving your sleep environment and avoiding activities that contribute to wakefulness at nighttime.
Steps you can take to improve your sleep health include:
- Waking up and going to bed at the same times every day, including on weekends.
- Upgrading your mattress, pillows, and bedsheets as needed so you can feel comfortable enough to fall and stay asleep.
- Keeping your room at a comfortable temperature at night so you don’t sweat excessively or wake up freezing.
- Establishing a relaxing, soothing bedtime routine, such as taking a warm bath or reading a book.
- Installing dim or low-light bulbs in your room that won’t make you feel too alert before bedtime.
- Avoiding screen time for up to two hours before bedtime, such as watching television or being on your smartphone.
- Avoiding caffeine for several hours before bedtime.
- Avoiding alcohol completely or for several hours before bedtime. Alcohol may help you fall asleep initially but can cause you to wake frequently during the night.
- Avoiding large meals and heavy snacks within a few hours of going to bed.
- Exercising daily, which helps you feel more relaxed and sleepy at bedtime.
- Getting sunlight exposure daily, which helps regulate your body’s natural circadian rhythm or sleep-wake cycle.
What Are the Best Treatments for Sleep Disorders?
Sleep disorders can be effectively treated with medications, psychotherapy, healthy lifestyle behaviors, or a combination of these treatments. Your healthcare provider can help you find the best treatment for you based on your symptoms and how you respond to certain treatments.
Insomnia can be treated with prescription medications that help you fall and stay asleep and with cognitive-behavioral therapy that helps you change harmful behaviors contributing to your sleeping difficulty.
Sleep apnea is usually treated with CPAP machines that keep your airways open at night so you can breathe more easily. You can try CPAP for side sleeping, CPAP with AirTouch or AirFit masks that are lined with comfortable materials, or quiet CPAP machines if your sleeping partner is kept awake by your snoring. ResMed is one of the top CPAP manufacturers and offers a variety of quality CPAP devices, including CPAP for side sleepers.
Narcolepsy is usually treated with medications that help you control your symptoms, as there is no cure for this sleep disorder. Stimulants and antidepressants are commonly prescribed for narcolepsy, as stimulants can help you stay awake, and antidepressants can prevent you from entering a deep sleep during the day. Like narcolepsy, restless legs syndrome is also typically treated with medications that focus on reducing your symptoms.
Consult with your healthcare provider right away if you think you may have sleep apnea or another sleep disorder preventing you from getting quality sleep. The sooner you treat your condition, the sooner you can get back to feeling mentally alert, more energetic, and refreshed.
How Does MonthlyCPAPClub Work?
Select the type of mask you prefer. We offer today’s leading brands at the lowest prices. Unlike other CPAP supplies you can buy online, we give you free standard tubing, free filters, and free shipping. Once you have selected your mask type, you’ll be able to select your desired brand and fit. It’s super easy!
F.A.Q.
Monthly CPAP Club is a new approach to delivering a regular and scheduled shipment of all your CPAP supplies for one low monthly cost.
We charge you a small monthly free and deliver a fresh CPAP mask, tubes, filters and cushions to your door every 3 months.
We work with the major manufacturers to provide a selection of the most popular CPAP masks, cushions, tubing, filters and other accessories.
You get one shipment with all the CPAP supplies you’ll need for the next three months and you just pay one low, monthly payment.
Monthly CPAP Club lets you know when it’s time to change your filters, clean your mask and tubing. Three months after your first order, we’ll let you know (via email) that it’s time to replace your CPAP supplies, and we will ship out a package with a replacement mask, tubing, and filters for your CPAP machine, all including in your monthly fee.
Every package allows you to choose your preferred style of CPAP mask and the brand, make and model you prefer. You have the choice of standard tubing or heated tubing. You have the option for extended tubing options with heated tubing. Every package also includes cushions for the mask and filters for your machine
We need to know which CPAP breathing machine you use so we can send you the correct filters. Filters are specific to machines.
If you don’t see your CPAP breathing machine model listed, please contact us at sales@monthlycpapclub.com. Please include the make and model of CPAP breathing machine you use.
We do support many machines. The most popular machines are listed right now and more will be added as we grow.
In the mean time, let us know which machines you use so we get you the correct filters.
Monthly CPAP Club currently offers Resmed, Respironics, and Fisher & Paykel CPAP products. We can accommodate certain other brands when requested by email. Please let us know by emailing us at sales@monthlycpapclub.com or submit a request online.
Our goal at Monthly CPAP Club is to offer all the necessary CPAP supplies for good sleep hygiene in simple, scheduled quarterly shipments.
We want the program to be even easier for the end user to afford with a monthly payment.
When you sign up for a package with Monthly CPAP Club, you will be charged the monthly package amount ranging from $30 and up, depending on your preferences.
We will ship out a package within 1 business day of your order with all the CPAP supplies you’ll need to properly treat your sleep apnea with clean and effective supplies.
The next scheduled shipment for your account will commence 3 months after your initial first shipment. We’ll send you an email your next delivery is on the way.
The best part about Monthly CPAP Club for those living with sleep apnea is that CPAP supplies are one less thing you’ll have to regularly order, schedule or pick up. We ship you the supplies you’ll need for the next three months and ship you another package in three months will all new and fresh CPAP supplies.
We do sell most of the popular and newest CPAP machines. Although we do not list many of the machines on our Monthly CPAP Club site, we can process orders for machines via email for existing subscribers and over the phone for new users.
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