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| Call Your Doctor |  You should call your health care provider when you or your bed partner:
- Snorers loudly and heavily.
- Snorers and feels unrefreshed and sleepy during the day.
- Falls asleep during the day at inappropriate times like while sitting in the car or talking.
- Gasps, chokes, or stops breathing while sleeping.
You have to remember that snoring is the main symptom of such serious sleep disorder as sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is characterized with episodes of stop breathing during sleep.
Vigilant Waiting
This is a period when you and your doctor observe your symptoms and condition without using medical treatment. It may be appropriate if your snoring sound does not disturb your bed partner or if you don’t feel excessive sleepiness throughout the day. In case if home treatment does not help your snoring, make an appointment with your health professional.
Vigilant waiting may not be appropriate if you or your sleeping partner snores loudly and heavily, is restless during sleep, feels excessive sleepiness throughout the day, or stops breathing while sleeping. All this may indicate sleep apnea. Call your health care professional.
Health Professionals
Following professionals can cure snoring. You can see:
- general practitioners
- internists
- pediatricians
- physician assistant
- nurse practitioners
- otolaryngologists
If sleep apnea is suspected, a health care provider who specializes in treating sleep disorders (it is often pulmonologist or neurologist) can help arrange and interpret tests to diagnose sleep apnea. If your health professional recommends an oral breathing device, you may be referred to a dentist.
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