Do you have any of these sleep disorders?

Sleep Disorder



The following are brief descriptions of the major sleep disorders.

Intrinsic sleep disorders

These are disorders that originate or develop within the body.

1. Psychophysiological insomnia

People with psychophysiological insomnia react to situations that are psychologically stressful with bodily tension or other physical complaints, and they learn to associate certain things with emotions that prevent sleep. People with this disorder typically have a focused absorption on their sleep problems, which itself interferes with sleep.

2. Sleep state misperception

This disorder involves an honest complaint of insomnia or excessive sleepiness when there is no objective evidence that sleep is disturbed or lacking. Often seen in people in middle or late adulthood. They feel they are not able to sleep as long or as well as they could in former years.

3. Idiopathic insomnia

Idiopathic insomnia is a lifelong inability to get adequate sleep that has no observable cause. It is assumed that this difficulty is due to an abnormality of sleep-wake control systems in the brain. It may also be due to a problem in the sleep-inducing and -maintaining systems, or hyperactivity in the arousal systems.

4. Narcolepsy

Narcolepsy is a disorder characterized by excessive sleepiness, abnormal REM sleep, cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations, and problems sleeping at night.

5. Recurrent hypersomnia

People with this disorder have recurrent episodes of extreme sleepiness and huge sleep needs. Episodes of hypersomnia usually last several days to several weeks, and occur twice a year, on average (although they can occur as many as 12 times a year). Victims sleep as much as 18 to 20 hours a day during these episodes, waking only to eat and go to the bathroom.

6. Idiopathic hypersomnia

Idiopathic hypersomnia is a disorder in which the patient complains of excessive sleepiness and prolonged sleep at night. What distinguishes this disorder from normal long sleepers and narcoleptics is that in case of idiopathic hypersomnia, there are numerous episodes of non-REM sleep that last for up to two hours. For this reason, this disorder is sometimes called non-REM narcolepsy. Since extreme sleepiness and large sleep need can be a symptom of many other sleep disorders, like narcolepsy and sleep apnea, it's important that those be ruled out before making this diagnosis.

7. Posttraumatic hypersomnia

Excessive sleepiness that develops as the result of physical injury or disease in the central nervous system. It can be caused by brain injury, neurosurgery, infection, or spinal cord injury. The hypersomnia usually goes away over weeks or months.

8. Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome

In obstructive sleep apnea, breathing is blocked during sleep when the airway pulls shut. This causes sleep disruption, dropping oxygen levels in the blood, and cardiovascular problems.

9. Central sleep apnea syndrome

This is a rare type of apnea that occurs not when the throat is blocked but when the patient can't make the effort necessary to pull air into the lungs. It is usually the result of problems in the neurological control of breathing, or with the muscles associated with breathing.

10. Central alveolar hypoventilation syndrome

During sleep, everyone naturally takes less air into the lungs than when awake. If there are problems with gas exchange in the lungs (for instance, caused by emphysema), there may be problems getting enough oxygen during the night, and sleep is disturbed. Because we naturally take in a larger volume of oxygen during the day, there may not be similar problems during the day.

11. Periodic limb-movement disorder

PLM disorder occurs when the sleeper periodically moves a limb (usually a leg) in exactly the same way over the course of the night. A typical movement would be a kick or flex of the leg every 10 seconds. These movements disrupt sleep and lead to insomnia and daytime sleepiness.

12. Restless legs syndrome

This syndrome is characterized by uncomfortable feelings (tingling, itching, crawling, pulling, or aching, for example) in the legs right before falling asleep. These feelings are relieved by moving the legs but return when movement stops. This interferes with falling asleep and can cause severe insomnia.

 

Right now I am leaning towards 7. The doctor gave me the prescription for some pills though.

 

after kicking-off my ugly and stressful job last summer, i'm slowly but steadily getting rid of number 2. now only remains occasional nr. 12, and i had read somewhere that is also caused by stress.

 

I just posted on the thread ya made about your accident & your sons emergency early arrival.....so I would say your sleep problems are normal for now.

 

My Husband has this ---> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis
although it hasn't happend in awhile, when it did he would lay awake not able to move and see horrible things in our bedroom that were not actually there.

I saw an educational show about this and they did tests on people who claimed to have been abducted and they diagnosed them with having sleep paralysis.

 

When I was little I would sometimes walk in my sleep...even fell down my grandmother's stairs.
I also talked alot in my sleep while growing up.

Sleepwalking (also called noctambulism or somnambulism) is a sleep disorder where the sufferer engages in activities that are normally associated with wakefulness while asleep or in a sleeplike state. Sleepwalking can affect people of any age.
Statistics

• Somewhere between 1% and 17% of US children sleepwalk, and juveniles are seen to be those more prone to the activity.
• Some 18% of Americans are prone to the act, roughly 2 in 11 of the US population
• One study showed that the highest prevalence of sleepwalking was 16.7% for children of 11 to 12 years of age.
• Boys are seen to be more likely to sleepwalk than girls.

 

i try not to get thinking when i lie down to sleep otherwise i get going all these trains of thought that just get rolling

 

i hvae number 5 and number one. i treat number one with melatonin when i can, number five's just a bitch.

 

When im falling asleep i jolt randomly, and it wakes me up. I also make noises as im dozing off, i have no clue as to why i do this, but it keeps me from sleeping as well. As for the list, i think i might have # 12, because i constantly have to move my legs. It could just be because im restless, but if i stop i cannot fall asleep, but when i do it it keeps me awake.

 

On average, I get about 5 hours of sleep at night. When I wake up in the morning, that's it, there's no going back, I'm up for the day. And as I'm falling asleep, I mumble, which brings me back from the brink of sleep; then I settle down,get to the verge of sleep, and manage to mumble myself awake yet again.

The whole process takes hours, unless I'm having one of those nights where I just stare at the ceiling, and can't even knock myself out with sleeping pills.

 

I think until I get too exhausted to form another thought and then I trail off into sleep, sometimes it takes minutes, sometimes hours

but yeah, when I wake up, I'm up

 

I only managed to get about 4 hours this morning....
I am so very tired, and I have no coffee to help.
Bleh.

 

I don't know what time I went to sleep, it was late, I woke up at 6:17..... it wasn't good.....

 

i sleep one or two hours a day at most....ain't unusual to go three days or so without sleep at all....doesn't worry me, sleep is a waste of time anyway

 

I think I'm going to scrounge around for some food.
And then I'm going to teh beach.

 

I get that if i have not slept properly in the night... and manage to get a hour after the sun has come up in the morning.. It is probably true about the abduction thingy as i have felt and seen things that should remain in dreams... though it is never a connected 'story' just randomness.. the person must connect the dots after they have woken up .. creating there own 'fanciful' version of events..based on 'stereotypical' often repeated situations..

 

I experienced those symptoms a few times when I was young. I would wake up paralysed and feel like something is trying to kill me. I used to see 'black light' come through my bedroom wall and go through another. Totally cool (but not at the time)

 

I forgot to add

'Totally cool (but not at the time) '

 

What completely freaked me out was finding out years later that over people have experienced the same phenomena all over the world. It has even been reported by people in isolated parts of Africa. Same paralysis, same black light passing through the walls...

 

Yeah it freaked me out [and pissed me off] , when i realised i was not unique in having these experiances.. Though i suppose everybody unique life experiances shape the erm experiance and what we see and feel. With me it is killing , well possibly death itself the feelings of death. Not that i would really know how that actually feels , but if certainly feels pretty real [and how i would imagine]. I have to literaly fight my way to wake myself up because i am that scared [at the time]. Though after i always feel a whole lot better emotionaly and mentaly [wich is a bonus].