excessive daytime sleepiness symptoms and treatments
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Solutions For Excessive Daytime Sleepiness
By Sleep Medicine Center
Excessive Daytime Sleepiness
Excessive Daytime Sleepiness
Excessive daytime sleepiness can significantly affect the quality of one’s life.
The Center for Sleep Medicine is finding solutions for those individuals suffering from excessive daytime sleepiness.
Insomnia
Insomnia Symptoms
Insomnia is a condition where an individual has difficulty falling or staying asleep.
Insomnia affects daytime functioning causing fatigue, depressed mood, impaired attention and concentration.
It worsens your ability to cope with stress, lessens enjoyment of social activities and quality of life.
Acute Insomnia
Acute Insomnia“Acute” Insomnia is a temporary response to factors such as stress or jet lag and normal sleep returns on its own.
As a result your doctor may offer medication as an option for immediate relief.
Chronic Insomnia
Chronic InsomniaInsomnia which persists for more than four weeks is referred to as “chronic insomnia”.
One in ten adults experience chronic insomnia which can persist for months, years or even decades.
Insomnia Factors
Many factors create and sustain insomnia.
All too often people are told to follow “good sleep hygiene” or prescribed medication.
While important they alone are not an effective treatment.
Insomnia Factors
Sleep is a natural physiological process, long term medication use should be done with caution, as it may worsen sleep as patients develop tolerance over time.
Circadian Rhythm Disorder
Circadian Rhythm DisorderAnother potential cause of daytime sleepiness is a Circadian Rhythm Disorder.
A person with this sleep disorder may have difficulty sleeping at a time when they need to sleep, difficulty rising when they need to rise and difficulty maintaining alertness when they need to be awake.
Circadian Rhythm DisorderSuch a disorder can have a profound effect on daily functioning which may include work or school absenteeism, impaired work performance, impeded social schedules and stress on relationships and depression.
For example, shift work disorder may have a significant effect on individuals who frequently change work hours or who work at night.
Circadian Rhythm Disorder
In such cases work schedules are out of sync with the body’s internal sleep wake schedule.
Human beings were designed to be awake during the day and asleep at night not vice versa.
Insomnia Treatment A consultation with an insomnia specialist certified in behavioral sleep medicine will assess the psychological, psycho-social, cognitive and behavioral factors that cause insomnia.
The good news is effective treatment for Insomnia is available at The Center for Sleep Medicine.
Hope it will be useful to prevent yourself from excessive daytime sleepiness.