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Sleep Apnea and Burning Mouth Syndrome Update

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About two years ago, I wrote a post about Sleep Apnea and Burning Mouth Syndrome.

Since then, a couple of dramatic things happened. A third occurred more slowly and was less dramatic, but more long-lasting.

First: I received this notice and an accompanying notification from my sleep apnea specialist that encouraged me to enroll myself in the recall website and to add an additional filter mechanism (that I could buy on Amazon) to protect me from the particles the machine could be spewing into my lungs.

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Sleep Apnea and Burning Mouth Syndrome

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Life has decided I needed an additional challenge and so sleep apnea is joining Burning Mouth Syndrome now that I have conquered my chronic migraines with Aimovig injections once a month.

Sleep apnea affects so many people (An estimated 22 million in the U.S.) with 80% of those undiagnosed and therefore, untreated. Sleep apnea affects many systems in the human body, as laid out in a 2017 article from Science Daily, researched by John Hopkins Medicine. The harmful byproducts of this stress on our bodies are documented, but I found myself wondering if there might be any link with chronic neuropathic pain conditions like Burning Mouth. I can keep wondering since there are few studies and as usual with BMS, they are quite small.

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