{"id":22,"date":"2010-07-26T07:35:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T12:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2010-07-26T23:35:56","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T04:35:56","slug":"ent-doctor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/?page_id=22","title":{"rendered":"Ear Nose Throat Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My regular doctor in addition to the prescription decided to send me to an ENT (Ear Nose and Throat) doctor and scheduled an appointment with him a week later.\u00a0 In the week it took to see the ENT, my nasal passages had pretty much cleared up from<br \/>\nextra mucous with the use of the nasal spray steroid.\u00a0 This was great as I cannot remember a time in my life without having to clear out my nose on a daily basis, however it was not my silver bullet as it had not changed the snoring.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding: 20px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-5046246809536391\";\n\/* 300x250, created 7\/11\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"5434359513\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>When I went to the appointment, the ENT&#8217;s office was extremely busy.\u00a0 It was in a non-descript grey concrete building that reminded me of some stark eastern-block European architecture without much activity outside or in the halls. Once I located the right floor and opened the door to the waiting room, I was surprised at the number of people there from really old people to young children.\u00a0 After a lot of waiting I was put in a exam room.\u00a0 The examination took maybe 2 or 3 minutes while he looked in my ears, nose and throat and declared that there was basically nothing he could recommend doing himself except to refer me to a sleep doctor!\u00a0 He explained the basic cause of snoring how the physical restriction of the airway with the soft palate and uvula causes a vibration.\u00a0 Some people, he explained, could have their tonsils removed and help provide a little more space for air to pass, but I had already had my tonsils out when I was a child and therefore this method would not be effective for me.\u00a0 He told me weight loss may help in some situations, but as I weighed around 180 and around average height, there wasn&#8217;t going to be much benefit from dropping to 175 or 170 which would be around my &#8220;target&#8221; weight for someone my build and height.<br \/>\n<P><HR><P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My regular doctor in addition to the prescription decided to send me to an ENT (Ear Nose and Throat) doctor and scheduled an appointment with him a week later.\u00a0 In the week it took to see the ENT, my nasal passages had pretty much cleared up from extra mucous with the use of the nasal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}