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Sleep Disorders
Sleep disorders are a group of syndromes characterized by disturbance in the patient's amount of sleep, quality or timing of sleep, or in behaviors or physiological conditions associated with sleep. There are approximately 70 different sleep disorders that may be the result of serious medical conditions, including breathing difficulties or thyroid disorders, or external factors, such as stress or substance abuse. Manifestations include insomnia, sleep apnea, and narcolepsy.
1,416 Questions
Is it better to get one hour of sleep or no sleep?
The most optimal timing for sleep should be either 30 minutes or less, or around 90 minutes. Sleeping for exactly an hour would allow your body to enter into REM sleep completely, making it a lot harder to wake up. A half an hour nap solve that by preventing your body from entering REM sleep, while granting you the much needed rest. A 90 minute nap, however, is a lot more effective. It allows your body to enter REM sleep without imposing any difficulty in you waking up.
If your uvula is removed will your voice change?
The uvula is a valve preventing things we swallow from going into the nasal cavity, it has nothing to do with the voice.
Do people with narcolepsy have trouble falling asleep at night?
In my experience with narcolepsy...I don't have any trouble falling asleep at night. It takes me less than a minute to fall asleep after I turn my lights off.
Every case is different though, but I think the general consensus would be no, narcoleptics have no trouble falling asleep regardless the time of day.
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Where can you find information on narcolepsy?
A good source of medical information is WEBMD. Let's take a few moments to explain this clinical entity: Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder caused by the brain's inability to regulate sleep-wake cycles normally. Therefore, at various times throughout the day, people with narcolepsy will experience fleeting urges to sleep. These episodes can occur at any time and thus prove profoundly disabling. Narcolepsy afffects about one in every 2000 Americans. It is usually not diagnosed until age 10-15 years old after the first symptoms appear. Two tests are essential in confirming the diagnosis of narcolepsy: 1. PSG (polysonogram) and the 2. MSLT (multiple sleep latency test). This entity can not be cured. However, over the last decade, the FDA has approved multiple medications to combat narcoplepsy. An excellent resouce to further explore narcolepsy is via The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, a component of the NIH (National Institutes of Health).
Is it bad to sleep with your hat on?
No i don't think its bad to sleep with a hat on as long as it isn't a tight hat that might leave marks on your head.
What percent of teenagers have sleep disorders?
The percentage of sleeping disorders is higher in the teen era. Teens are under more stress and have a higher risk for night terrors, nightmares (usally accuring once a week), micro naps (also known as micro sleeping), sleepwalking, lucid dreaming, narcolepsy (deep sleep attacks like mico sleep), restless leg syndrome, sleep talking and insomnia. About 65% of teens in the U.S.A experience one of the fallowing above at some part in their teen years. Note that these are only a few of the disorders that can occur.
What is meant by sleep attacks?
Levodopa can cause sudden and unexpected extreme drowsiness, which some physicians term "sleep attacks." Currently, no reliable predictive criteria have been developed to determine which patients are susceptible.
Trouble sleeping during period?
Guess what? I woke up to find that my period had arrived and now I'm up at the lovely time of 5:24. If I were you I would take a painkiller before I went to bed and then wear some tight shorts so that when you toss and turn nothing will move. You may want to have a heating pad handy so that it eases the pain. Don't eat many salts, junk foods, or dairy products. Hope this helps.
Can human growth hormones help with Narcolepsy?
I've just spent quite a while researching this, but I cannot find anything that mentions growth hormones being used in narcolepsy. -DJ Craig
Fatal familial insomnia and what does polysomnography technicians say about it?
the symptoms are very hardly saw because the symptoms are seen in last stages .
*total loss of weight
*losss of memory
*fatigness
*no sleep for three months *
*ultimately the patient dies due to tiredness
What is a description of a sleep attack?
The person suddenly falls asleep for a few seconds to more than an hour, anywhere or at anytime. Some continue to function outwardly but have no memory of the event when the wake up.
Can you just take sleeping pills never eat and lose weight?
Yes but the big problem with that regime is of you stop before you die and that would not take long you would probably end up brain damaged. Controlled diet and exercise are the best way to loose weight.
What are the symptoms of restless legs syndrome?
symptoms of RLS are all associated with unpleasant feelings in the limbs. The words used to describe these feelings are various, but include such adjectives as deep-seated crawling, jittery, tingling, burning, aching, pulling, painful, itchy or prickly.
Why do you bite your tongue while sleeping?
Some people bite their tongue while they are sleeping because they are relaxed. They can also have a bigger tongue than usual.
Is falling asleep in class all of the time a reson to take adderall?
No, it is a reason to take caffeine.
Is clomipramine a sleeping pill?
Clomipramine is not a sleeping pill. It is tricyclic group of antidepressant, which mainly acts by increasing the nor-epinephrine levels in the synaptic space of neuronal system. increase sleep or sedation can be one of it's side effect but it's main indication is in treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder, depression and other anxiety disorders.
What alcohol can you drink to stay awake?
Alcohol in any form should not be your choice of beverage to stay awake.
The person that wrote in about her schnauzer dragging it's legs around---hummmm let's see. Perhaps the dog is turning into a Mermaid????? I don't know it has been happening a lot, blam iton global warming and all. But if that idiot has not taken that poor Dog to a Vet SOON I will leave my humble abode and drive to where it is and take it myaelf!!! The longer you wait the worse it will get if it is bad hips or an ACL tear.
A 'dead leg' is when you can't move or put any pressure on you leg because of someone jabbing a pressure point on the side of it. It's bearable pain, but it still hurts.
Why does blue cross allowed amount for cpaps not cover the cost of the cpap?
Blue Cross Blue Shield has many different plans. These plans each have different benefits. What is covered under one BCBS plan may/may not be covered under another. It all depends on how the plan was built by whomever your insurance is provided through.
Many BCBS plans do cover the cost of a CPAP machine based on medical necessity.
I would contact your BCBS plan using the member benefits number found on the card and ask them if the cost of a CPAP machine is covered under "YOUR" benefits.
Im 14 and cant sleep at night is that a problem?
Unusual for someone that age but insomnia at times is normal for everyone-it depends on how often it occurs. If frequent examine your schedule closely and make any needed adjustments-your body will sleep when you need it, cut down on caffeine 9if any) especially before bedtime and don't waste you waking hours-do something constructive.
