“For many years I suffered from sleep apnea. I had low energy because my sleep was constantly being interrupted. (They say that sleep apnea puts a lot of stress on the heart.) I was a very loud snorer, which kept my husband, and everyone else in house, awake.
For over 4 years, I slept with a CPAP machine to “treat” my sleep apnea. This worked, but sleeping with the machine was less than ideal. It was uncomfortable and noisy. I would often take it off in my sleep because it was so annoying. The prospect of sleeping hooked up to the CPAP 
machine for the rest of my life was a very depressing situation.
I wasn’t referred to acupuncture for this condition, but I wish I had been –years ago! I was not new to acupuncture, but I just didn’t think of it as a resource for this condition. It wasn’t until I really got fed up with using the CPAP machine that I started researching alternative sleep apnea treatments on the internet that I thought to search some sites on acupuncture and found a few references. None sounded terribly promising, but I called up Joni Kroll and asked if she had had any success treating sleep apnea. She gave me a 50/50 chance that acupuncture might help. The rest is history!
After my first acupuncture treatment, there was marked improvement, but it only lasted a few days. Since that time, and several sessions later, the treatment “holds” for 2 weeks. I’m hopeful that I will be able to stretch the treatments further and further apart in time.
Now I have more energy during the day because I am sleeping better at night. I wake up so much more rested, and my throat is not raw from breathing through my mouth and snoring. And my husband is much happier and better rested too!
I was a firm believer in acupuncture before this, but just never put it together with sleep apnea. What I’ve learned from this experience is to not think of acupuncture as a treatment for just a narrow set of conditions but as a much more comprehensive approach to wellness.
Thank you Joni Kroll!”
-2010 Patient