Excessive daytime sleepiness symptoms and Treatments

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Solutions For Excessive Daytime Sleepiness 

• By Sleep Medicine Center

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Excessive Daytime Sleepiness
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Excessive Daytime Sleepiness

• Excessive daytime sleepiness can significantly
  affect the quality of ones life.
• The Center for Sleep Medicine is finding
  solutions for those individuals suffering from
  excessive daytime sleepiness.

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Insomnia
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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.

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Acute Insomnia
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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.

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Chronic Insomnia
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Chronic Insomnia

• Insomnia 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.

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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.

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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.

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Circadian Rhythm Disorder
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Circadian Rhythm Disorder

• Another 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.

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Circadian Rhythm Disorder

• Such 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.

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Circadian Rhythm Disorder

• In such cases work schedules are out of sync with
  the bodys internal sleep wake schedule.
• Human beings were designed to be awake during the
  day and asleep at night not vice versa.

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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.

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Hope it will be useful to prevent yourself from
excessive daytime sleepiness.