Sleep Apnea Treatment

Question by Sarah: Possible Sleep Disorder? Causing Problems At Home And Work!?!?
My husband has been complaining more lately about my sleeping habits. I sleep deeply and it is extremely hard to wake me. I can’t wake up to any alarm clocks I have had so far and I have been like this since I was a child. Even when I was a child, I didn’t wake up when our fire detector went off in our house. Now that I have a child of my own and I have to work and take care of him, this has become a huge problem. I am continuously late to work and someone has to physically come and wake me up. Also, I fall back asleep if there isn’t something physically keeping me up (like my husband poking and prodding me).

So, here is a list of my problems.
- I can’t fall asleep at night.
- When I do, I can’t wake up unless someone physically wakes me.
- I cannot stay awake unless someone else helps me.
- I am very irritable in the morning.
- If someone wakes me and I fall back asleep, I don’t remember.
- I don’t remember anything that happens immediately after I wake up (conversations, actions, etc.)

In general, I can’t sleep but when I do, I can’t wake up, and when I do, I can’t remember anything and I am angry and irritable.

Does any of this mean anything? Please help.
Mike, what was the point of your response? You’re an idiot.

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Answer by Mike
WOW, someone actually MARRIED you???

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Question by Lauren: I need to know of a few case studies on Sleep Terror Disorder (Night Terrors) Any ides?

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Answer by D.D.
For goodness sake just put that into the search bar at yahoo web search or google.

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Question by tcwwi: sleeping disorder sleep walking?
how do you kow for sure that you are a sleep walker

i recently have been setting an alarm on my alarm clock you know to wake up for school

any way i wake up in the morning via my grandma at 5;30am when my alarm is set for 5
so last night i set an alarm for 5 then i wake up this morning at 5;30
i find out that my alarm clock is unplugged
now during the night i have my door shut
and i dont usually get up to pee or anything so i couldnt have tripped over the cord and unplugged it
so either one of my eighty year old grandparents is unplugging it just for laughs or something wierd is going on
by the way uh i dont have money for a
camera

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Answer by Star lopez
You should get a camera and record before you got to sleep then c wat happens..

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Question by Tracy J: Is this considered any kind of sleep disorder, or is there anything I can do?
I have always had this problem my entire life. When I was a little kid I always slept until at least 11am, when all other kids I know wake up at 6am. But, I’m 29 years old now. I have always had a hard time waking up in the mornings (it’s not just the typical teenager not wanting to get up thing). I can go to bed at 8pm or midnight, and still can’t get enough sleep. Currently the alarm goes off at 3am (I usually don’t get out of bed until 4:20, but that’s only because my husband pulls me out). But, even when I worked a lot later, I still had this same problem. Plus, if I wake up in the middle of the night and actually get out of bed for 2 minutes (thank god it doesn’t happen often), my body has to pretty much start the entire sleep cycle over again. So, that night I’ll need twice as much sleep. My husband has started to just leave me on the couch if I fall asleep. Does anyone else have this same exact problem? Please help, it’s the biggest pet peeve about myself and my husband is really starting to get angry that I can’t get up in the mornings, but I can’t even hear the alarm until an hour later.

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Answer by swomedicineman
Ask your husband if you snore. You may need to be evaluated for sleep apnea. A good physical at your doctor is a pretty good idea as well. A good multivitamin especially B vitamins are good. Even at 29 you may have a decreased hormone level which can contribute to your need for lots of sleep. I had a low testosterone level and prior to finding this out I had similar sleep problems you have described. Go get a physical and request that your doctor draw labs that check your hormone levels. I had to suggest this to my endocrinologist and he was sure I didn’t have low testosterone until the results proved otherwise. With testosterone injections every 2 weeks I improved.

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Question by RS353: What kind of sleep disorder could this be?
Four consecutive nights in a row now I’ve lost significant sleep to violent twitches and flailing around. It’s not mere tossing and turning where I just keep rolling over in the same spot. Every few seconds (seemingly 7-15s) I have this uncontrollable spasm that has lifted me from laying dead asleep on my back to sitting straight up within a second or so. My boyfriend thought I was having seizures. It’s not RLS. It can’t be. Even as I sit now I feel all this tension in my upper shoulders to heave around. I’ve taken muscle relaxers, stopped caffeine before bedtime….I don’t know what to do. It’s beginning to take a toll on my work and school performance. I’m 20 and work part time and go to school. That’s nothing in particular that millions suffer stress from…why is it overwhelming me so badly?
Hey hey hey…..good point. I had a nasty infection over the weekend that I was having to take tons of Penicillin and Hydracodon…Hydr…heavy duty pain killers for. A couple times I’d take the pills at 2 or 3 hours rather than the 4 or 5 hours I was supposed to wait. I had some similar reactions. I didn’t think about that.

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Answer by Mum Mum
Ask your doctor SOON !

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