Dec
04

Hyper-Somnia or Hyper Sleep

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Hypersomnia is the most common type of excessive sleep disorder found in people.
Hypersomnia is characterized by unscheduled sleeping hours and too much of sleep at odd hours of the day. It makes a person drowsy to the extent that the person never realizes when she has fallen asleep. There are two different types of hypersomnia, primary hypersomnia and recurrent hypersomnia. These two have the same symptoms but are quite different in the way they take place. Diagnosing this disorder is very easy, the patient suffers from excessive daytime sleepliness. This sleep is not the usual kind of sleep and does not accompany fatigues as a cause. It just comes at any time. A person with this disorder can go to sleep between a conversation or even while eating. This can hit a person even after a good nights sleep at the breakfast table. Symptoms may also include slow and wrong thinking, decreased energy, increases irradiation, anxiety, irritation, absence of appetite which accompanies weight loss, difficulty to remember any thing small of even problems in recalling old memories, loss of touch with family and friends, mood fluctuations, etc. People with this disease can not be left alone to work or even go out because of their ability for fall asleep where ever they get a chance. The person suffering from hypersomnia will have recurring symptoms for about two to three years which might or might not fade away later on. But till it stays, it makes the person used to sleeping for long hours.

Hypersomnia may be because of an injury to the brain or any form of clinical depression such as fibromyalgia or uremia. Like any other mental disorders, this disease can also be because of the genes. A symptomatic treatment needs to be used to treat this disorder.

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Nov
27

Sleeping Disorder Narcolepsy

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Do you feel sleepy in the day time even after a 10 hour sleep? Do you keep forgetting things and feel tired very often? Is your efficiency lower than other people? If the answer to these questions was yes, then you could be having a sleeping disorder known as Narcolepsy. Narcolepsy in a mental disorder that is characterized by chronic sleep. Excessive Daytime sleepiness is the major symptom where the individual feels stressed at all the times and needs to sleep at every instance of slowed activity around the person or any form of comfort. A child sleeping during class even after a full nights sleep might be because she is suffering from narcolepsy. These people also face insomnia at night because of too much sleep in the night time. They spend their nights walking around instead of sleeping and this can be because of the minds inability to calm down to the slow wave sleep stage. The person will get sleep at night too but only for a very short period of time and be fresh the next hour, later again this person will feel sleepy.

A drowsy feeling takes over the person and this person will be unable to do work or concentrate on any thing in particular. Even before a daytime nap, the person with narcolepsy will not be aware of him going into sleep. They will last for as short as 20 minutes to about 2 hour and will accompany hallucinations, and night mares in this short period of sleep. A person with narcolepsy will also exhibit automatic behavior, irritability, sleep paralysis, caraplexy and hypnagogic hallucinations. The cause for this not known but it has genetic connections. Treatment is through therapeutic processes and has to be tailored to the particular individual’s condition. Drugs such as nervous system stimulating drugs can be helpful in relieving symptoms.

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Nov
22

Cures For Narcolepsy

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Narcolepsy is a serious condition of chronic sleep which can ruin a person’s profession as well as professional life. It even makes a person give time to himself. Narcolepsy in a mental disorder that is characterized by chronic sleep. Excessive Daytime sleepiness is the major symptom where the individual feels stressed at all the times and needs to sleep at every instance of slowed activity around the person or any form of comfort. Why if effect the people it effects is not known, and there is no way to even prevent oneself from it. People have known to develop narcolepsy because of unhealthy sleeping habits. These unnatural sleeping habits when combined with lesser and lesser sleeping hours and high stress levels causes the development of Narcolepsy in people around the world. Though this type of narcolepsy is not permanent, still it is a major issue.

There are two types of treatment are practiced. One is an artificial treatment where various therapies and drugs are uses, the other is the natural treatment where natural substances and medication is used. In artificial treatment, the whole process is based on obtaining a therapeutic response from the patient. The symptoms are noted and the medication altered to fit the effectiveness on the person. Drugs which stimulate the nervous system such as racemic, methylphenidate, dextro amphetamine, modafinil, and armo dafinil are the most commonly used drugs. Planned regular naps can reduce the need for drugs, but too much sleep frequently is not possible. In natural forms of treatment that are much less harmful to the human body, meditation is quite effective. There are also many psychoactive natural substances that raise the concentration level of the mind and avoid the person from going to sleep. It might seem that drugs will provide fast relief, but they will only end up damaging the nervous system, instead prefer natural drugs.

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Nov
20

Natural Cures For EDS

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People who consult doctors for cures to excessive daytime sleepiness only be given harsh cocktail of drugs which will cause more harm than good. These drugs will have long lasting effects on the body and also have various side effects; some may be bad, other may be really bad. These drugs also can be very addictive to the body causing the abuse of these substances in the same way that other addicts use drugs. On top of that these drugs will not cure any symptoms of excessive daytime sleepiness just will cause other problems to escalate.

The best type of treatment known among people who have overcome excessive daytime sleepiness is to go for natural cures instead of artificial therapies which still have a long way to go to become as effective as other treatments. One of the major causes of excessive daytime sleepiness is because of sleep deficiency at night. Hence before opting for any cure, make sure that you are actually suffering from excessive daytime sleepiness syndrome. You couldn’t be getting sleep at night because of stress or depression or deep thinking, hence avoid thinking at night and sleep tight. Yoga and deep meditation have known to be very effective at curing many forms of excessive daytime sleepiness. Yoga and meditation relax the muscles and makes sure you stay heath mentally and physically. Even good exercise is necessary for a sound and healthy sleep. Jobs today are more dependent on the mind rather than the body, they cause over exercising of the mind and the body idle. This has unknown effects in different people, and bad sleep is one of the major causes. The Chinese acupuncture has also been proven effective at making sleep more sound and avoid excessive daytime sleepiness syndrome. And most importantly, stick to your sleeping schedule.

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Nov
17

EDS With Sleep Apnea

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Sleep apnea is common in people with Excessive Sleep Disorder. It is a sleep disorder which combine day time sleeping with low breathing and abnormal breathing which sometimes even completely stops for a few seconds. These pauses are combines with loud snores.

This is the most common type of sleep disorder that affects about one in 50 people. Many people do not realize they suffer from this disorder and go on with their lives. The most dangerous phase of Sleep apnea is during sleeping when breathing stops, it can lead to the death of a person. The time that the breathing stops can range between 10 secs to more than a minute. The person feels like he is being suffocated and wakes up trying to profusely breath. This causes the person to wake up from a deep sleep. It repeats a number of times every might causing the person to loose sleep completely. If this apnea continues for a longer period, the person might never wake up to breath. There is no struggling for breath or even any movement from the person’s reflex system. The respiratory system of a body goes to rest during cycles of apnea and hypoapnea. This process continues for years causing the individual to be accustomed to frequent sleep and excessive day time sleep. People with these symptoms of this disease are closely monitored while they are sleeping to see how bad the sleep apnea is. If a person does not breathe in a 10 second interval, then there is definitely possibility of this person having sleep apnea. People with this sleep disorder tend to be overweight, which has been connected with eating at night and reduced physical activity. Hence the person with sleep apnea has to be closely monitored so that she does not go into a coma or just dies.

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Nov
14

Hormones Cause Sleeping disorders

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Women are twice likely as men to develop sleeping disorders. They are the ones who tend to stay awake and night an prefer talking rather than sleeping. Men are quite sound sleepers when it comes to comparing between the two. One in 200 women will sufferer from some kind of disorder of which excessive day sleeping is one of the major ones. Although there is a factor of age that decides when women develop these diseases. On an average young women have a better tendency to sleep than older women who suffer from insomnia and excessive sleep. Women tend to develop this habit of sleeping in the day time which slowly drags the sleep away from the night and makes sleeping troublesome at night. On the other hand at the day time sleeping becomes a necessity form just a random thing that is done when one tends to get bored. Women who have an active reproductive system tend to develop sleeping problems more than other women who are not yet in their reproductive stage or are out of their reproductive stage.

There are a number of factors that control this pattern of sleep in women like lifestyle, health, illness, stress, the environment in which the women sleeps and other such external factors. But one internal factor that plays a major role in controlling sleep pattern in women are the hormonal levels. Women goes through hormonal changes every month is a cycle. The hormonal levels keep changing throughout the month. It is especially during pregnancies that the hormonal levels fluctuate violently. This causes unpredictable mood swings, irritability, depression and also sleep disorders. Hence women who have observed premenstrual disturbances in sleep should consult a doctor or should go for therapies which can help cure these diseases. Other forms of therapies and meditation can also help in a big way to cure them.

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Nov
12

Pregnancy And Excessive Sleep

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Being pregnant for the first time is a quite a challenge for every women. Changes that a women never had experience in her life take place. From physical changes to changes deep inside body. The persons feelings towards her husband and friends change along with towards herself. The hormonal levels undergo quite a radical change when compared to what the women has been experiencing the rest of her life. Though the hormonal levels keep fluctuating every month, it is especially during pregnancies that the hormonal levels fluctuate violently. This causes unpredictable mood swings, irritability, depression and also sleep disorders. There changes are more prominent than the changes during adulthood. It is during the first trimester that a women goes through some really active hormonal changes. This is the time when the baby is starting to move its limbs and starts kicking.

Sleeping disorders are known to be manifested because of hormonal changes. It is not a surprise that the hormonal changes that take place during pregnancies cause vibrant changes in sleeping patterns and give rise to sleeping disorders such as excessive day sleeping, vivid dreaming, sleep apnea, insomnia, restless leg syndrome and other such disorders. Among these the most common one is the restless leg syndrome, which occurs in more than a third of women. Insomnia is occurred because of a women worrying that her sleeping movements can cause the baby harm. A women also has to worry about going to the toiled frequently because of the pressure on the urine bladder because of the baby. The babies kicking also wakes a mother up. Excessive day sleeping is developed because of a variety of reasons. The less sleep at night forces a pregnant woman to sleep in the day time and the excess food and rest that accompany a pregnancy all help in the generation of a excessive day sleeping syndrome.

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Nov
07

EDS Effects on Pregnancy

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Pregnancy accompanies with it a number of sleeping disorders because of hormonal changes that need to undergo inside a woman. The progesterone levels increase in the woman’s blood stream. More than 78% of women are certain to develop sleep complications during pregnancy. And like every other syndrome, sleeping syndromes during pregnancy has a number of complications on the health of the woman, the pregnancy and the child. It is not a surprise that the hormonal changes that take place during pregnancies cause vibrant changes in sleeping patterns and give rise to sleeping disorders such as excessive day sleeping, vivid dreaming, sleep apnea, insomnia, restless leg syndrome and other such disorders.

A pregnant woman needs to sleep more than an average person. About two or three more hours than usual is required for woman. This leads to excessive daytime sleeping among women who tend to develop many complications. Some of the complications faced are the possibility of a Cesarean section operation for the delivery of the baby. Women who do not get proper sleep are proved to be more prone to give birth by a cesarean section delivery. A research conducted among women showed that this is really the case among hundreds of women who do not get ample sleep during pregnancy end up with a caesarean section surgery. Another quite frequent health hazard of sleeping at wrong times is gestational diabetes along with gastro problems. These are because of development of unhealthy sleeping habits because of the excessive sleeping syndrome. Women tend to sleep after having food, this can cause imbalances in the blood sugar levels due to changes in the rhythm of the insulin production. This can turn into permanent diabetes, if not treated accordingly. Other problems are hypertension, longer labors, various illnesses and preeclampsia among other diseases and health implications on the growing baby.

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Nov
05

Sleeping Schedules for People With EDS

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People with excessive day time sleeping syndrome will have to face a lot of difficulty at work and in their social life. To top it off are the increasingly busy lives of people who are not able to get the required amount of sleep necessary every night. The work schedules come in the way of sleep and it makes it harder for people to find sleep. Even if they try to sleep with all the different things and pending work, they are not able to get them done on time and end up staying awake. But sleep lost somewhere has to catch up somehow. These people are now beginning a polyphasic sleep pattern. This sleep patter is common in people with an irregular sleep pattern. It is assumed that this is the way early humans slept because of fear of safety. It is how even children sleep in small gaps. There are two types of of sleep the rapid eye movement sleep and the non rapid eye movement sleep. Every eight hour sleep is accompanied by an hour or more of rapid eye movement sleeps which is not useful to the brain. It is only the one or two hour of non rapid eye movement sleep that is what counts. Hence in a polyphasic sleep, the person includes short phases of naps that are completely non rapid eye movement deep sleep.
There are different types of polyphasic sleep. There is the common monophasic and biphasic sleep where a person sleeps for eight complete hours or one seven hours and one, one hour nap respectively. These are the types of sleep that most people follow. The other types of sleeps are everyman, dymaxion and Uberman. These sleeps have different nap times which occur more than 4 to 6 times a day.

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Nov
03

Excessive sleeping and Obesity

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Excessive weight and excessive sleeping might sound like two separate disorders which have nothing to do with each other, in fact these are quite closely connected to each other than one previously thought. There are some fascinating connections between sleep and weigh that have been recently found out. It is not just bad cholesterol from fast food that makes one fat various other factors such as genetics, environment, exercise, height, and sleep that play a part in it.

Sleeping patterns maintain series of orchestra of hormonal activities that follows a rhythm. These are not quite obvious to a person but when a person loses sleep or sleeps during the day time, the body feels this effect and gets confused. The quality and the proper schedule of a sleep have a variety of effects on the body’s digestive system which affect the persons appetite and other factors such as excretion and urination. Any disruption to the sleeping pattern has interesting but harmful changes to the body. The most important of these interesting changes is its effect on the health. Although it has been known that a number of hormones are released because of sleeping, it wasn’t known until recently the hormones concerned with food digestion and absorption are connected to sleep too. Many people must have experienced the feeling of being full and the absence of your appetite, this may be due to the loss of the body’s rhythm of hormonal secretion. Two hormones that play an important role in the development of the feeling of huger as associated with sleep are Leptin and Grehlin. The pattern of sleep sets up a particular time for the secretion of these hormones in the blood stream. Once a pattern is lost because of loss of sleep, it takes quite a while for the hormonal orchestra to start playing again, till this time your body keeps developing excess weight.

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