What is Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome (UARS)?

Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome (UARS) brings more focus on the function of the nasal passage in an individual. While UARS may share many of the same symptoms with obstructive sleep apnea, disturbed sleep and consequent daytime impairment, and excessive daytime sleepiness #EDS, the testing results and treatment options can be different.

[SUltra-bt]

This is caused by narrow palates narrow jaws and recessed jaws. All of which are caused by improper tongue posture from childhood into adulthood.

CPAP is great for treating the symptoms but it is NOT a solution.

The solution is expanding the palate and jaws and often MMA CCW jaw surgery that moves both jaws forward and rotates them counter clockwise

[SleepApneaMan]

Quality sleep has completely changed my life. 🥰

[cebruthius]

One cannot emphasize too much the shortcomings of home sleep testing. Keep fighting!

[nkwhite]

Just did my second CPAP night last night. Nasal pillows, 5 to 15 on an airsense 11. By my morning study results, I got in 10hrs 41mins. Was a bit of a shock going from a pressure of 12.something to room air pressure when first getting up. Either way, my whole face feels more opened up than it had the last few days before starting treatment. Yesterday, after the first night, it felt really full.

Now, I'm excited to see the treatment start working.

[virtuallyrealistic]

I so needed this video ten years ago. I have been touching it out holding my lower jaw open with a full face mask. GP told me I was fine with the low 4-10 AHI.

[DDDarray]

Thanks for spreading the word on this neglected but so important branch of medicine. There's a need for more accurate home testing systems, not just to save money, but because factors in the home, eg., dust mite, or pets, may be contributing to a patient's problems, and the problem may not be detected in a lab environment, or it may be an intermittent problem. A person could rent home equipment several times over a month, and maybe it would catch events that are significant but don't happen every night. I have a heart rhythm quirk that only happens now and then, and it took half a year for me to identify it and find the cause. It didn't show up during the one sleep study I did.

[aditnarayan]

Why don’t more insurance companies recognize UARS/cover various treatments? That’s the greatest obstacle to recovery and the medical community struggles to advocate for those who suffer worst. Only the very wealthy or those with high AHIs can afford the invasive surgeries that we need to fix our issues.

[alexbochelmusic]

this is such an awesome video. Thank you for posting this great information! I was just diagnosed with UARS and will be starting treatment in a week.

[fadjeja]

Thank you 💛. I haven't been able to get a UARS diagnosis yet in the Netherlands. I don't have sleepapnea, AHI=1
Chronic mouth breather from birth due to bottle feeding and thumbsucking. Worsened by retractive orthodontics (headgear braces) This ruined my quality of life 😩 Please help, no snoring (imw 30.9mm) Many arousals..
(Insomnia, depressive mood)

[catallergiccat]

I’ve been using nasal pillows for years, but mouth leaking is a big problem to me, as my mouth naturally open during my sleep. So I started mouth taping, leaking gets better, AHI is low, but sleep is still fragmented, and I feel not rested.

[APNZ]

What they dont mention here is that its way worse on your back, i have severe sleep apnea while on my back but its non existent on my side, but im sure i have UARS because i cant breathe through my nose properly even after septoplasty and turbinate reduction.

[motivationalmultiplex]

Hi Mam, I am suffering from a unique probkem ..I am able to breath from nose but it get obstructed when coming out when I lay down on bed (not sleep)...Dr done endoscopy but don't find anything .please help me in this ..what is it..

[losg]

Thank you for this information I've been battling with sleepiness and fatigue for years I've been using bipap machine had 2 sleep studies 🤦🏾‍♂️ recently my ahi has been 1.5 and under usually according to the machine but yet I'm still always tired 😫

[Weyland-Youtubi]

I got a CPAP, but have found it to be less helpful than expected because my nose and throat become progressively more irritated while using it on most nights. After a few hours, my nose is usually completely stuffed up and I wake up feeling like I can't breathe and off goes the mask for the rest of night.

[Patriotman]

what parts of the body does sleep apnea affect?