Treat light obstructive sleep apnea

You can also be able to improve symptoms with some lifestyle adjustments.

Losing weight if you wear extra pounds is one of the most effective ways to manage light sleep apnea and prevent it from getting worse, says Mallampalli. Try to eat a healthier diet and do more exercise to work on this goal.

Also take stock of your sleep hygiene habits. Because sleep apnea is a problem with sleep quality, “you want to make sure you don’t also superimize a problem of quantity, calendar or regularity,” explains Sullivan. Make sure you spend the seven recommended at nine o’clock in night’s sleep per night and try to keep your time to sleep and your coherent awakening time, even on weekends, she adds.

In the end, you and your health care provider may decide that you do not yet need to treat light sleep apnea if the symptoms do not disturb your daily life. If this is the case – or even if you simply start with some changes to your sleep and weight management habits – you should plan to check again with your doctor in the near future.

“Each time I see a patient, I want to have this follow -up plan when I will see them afterwards, which we are going to talk about, and … if that is not going well, what is our next step,” explains Sullivan.