Sleep disorders seriously affect people’s social lives. Increased daytime sleepiness due to sleep disorders can prevent patients from doing their jobs and lead them to failure. At the same time, they sometimes make fun of their involuntary sleepiness when they spend time with the people in their social circle, and sometimes they encounter the pity of their friends. Cognitive dysfunction also prevents people from exhibiting their own performance. In this case, they cannot show the success they can show at work, and they often encounter problems due to problems such as forgetfulness and inability to concentrate. The impotence seen in male patients and, perhaps equally important, the decrease in the sexual desire of women adversely affect the relations of the patients with their spouses, which makes it difficult to maintain marriages. Complaints such as gastroesophageal reflux, chest burning and headache seen in some of the patients reduce the quality of life of the person. In patients with sleep apnea, problems such as decrease in social functions, mental health and feeling that one’s own energy is decreasing generally improve with treatment.
Snoring and shortness of breath during the night also reduces the quality of life of spouses. Spouses find this situation strange at first, but over time they take for granted both snoring and sleep apnea and their spouses who sleep restlessly in bed due to apnea. Although it is known that patients with sleep apnea syndrome have a higher divorce rate, spouses who do not divorce also separate their bedrooms in the later years of marriage. When sleep apnea syndrome is treated, the quality of life not only of the patients but also of the spouses of the patients increases.
