| This potentially life-threatening disorder is linked to irregular heartbeat,
high blood pressure, heart failure, heart attack and stroke. Obstuctive sleep
apnea can cause you to involuntarily stop breathing while sleeping. Symptoms of
this condition include loud snoring, pauses in breathing and daytime sleepiness |
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| If you have trouble falling asleep, find it nearly impossible to fall asleep
during the night or wake up too early in the morning, you might suffer from
insomnia. |
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| If you suffer from narcolepsy, you’ll find yourself suffering from “sleep
attacks”. Oddly, this can occur even after you’ve had a full night’s sleep.
Other symptoms include cataplexy, which is a sudden loss of muscle function,
sleep paralysis and frightening hallucinations. |
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| These are abnormal physical behaviors that occur while you are sleeping. They
include sleepwalking, night-terrors and rhythmic movement disorders, all of
which can interfere movement disorder, all of which can interfere with your
sleep. |
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| Also called excessive day time sleepiness(EDS), hypersomnia presents several
signs to watch for. These include sleeping too much (More than 10 hours per day
on a regular basis) and the inability to stay awake or alert during the days. |
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| If you stay up extremely late, say until 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. and then sleep all
morning and get up around noon, you may suffer from DSPS. This condition can
cause daytime sleepiness and impaired performance at work or school. DSPS is
very common in teenagers, young adults and college students. |
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| This is charatcterized by falling asleep early, usually between 6 p.m. and 8
p.m., and waking up before dawn. If you suffer from ASPS, you may fall asleep at
dinner parties and early evening social functions but may force yourself to stay
awake later in the evening. ASPS affects many adults over the age of 65. |
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| This is an uncomfortable disorder that causes cramping, burning and itching in
the legs while resting or sitting for long periods of time. RLS can be so
Painful that it causes you to lose sleep, resulting in daytime drowsiness and
insomnia. While RLS can affect children and pregnant women, most cases are
diagnosed in people aged 50 and older. |
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| People who suffer from PLMS experience involuntary and repetitive leg jerking
while sleeping. These movements can happen throughout the night and be a
nuisance to your spouse. PLMS, like RLS, can cause daytime sleepiness and
insomnia. |
