Anxiety in Your Brain: What Happens When Anxiety Attacks? Anxiety does evoke the same fight or flight response that stress does, which means, like stress, anxiety will trigger a flood of stress hormones like cortisol designed to enhance your speed, reflexes, heart rate, and circulation.
Mandibular advancement device (MAD). The most widely used mouth device for sleep apnea, MADs look much like a mouth guard used in sports. The devices snap over the upper and lower dental arches and have metal hinges that make it possible for the lower jaw to be eased forward.
The first step sleep apnea patients and CPAP users can take toward preventing pneumonia this year is also the easiest: Clean your CPAP equipment daily! For some CPAP users, this is easier said than done, as cleaning CPAP equipment by hand can be a tedious, time-consuming process.