Sleep Disorders and Sleep Apnea Information

A sleep disorder (somnipathy) is a medical disorder of the sleep patterns of a person. Some sleep disorders are serious enough to interfere with normal physical, mental and emotional functioning.

Narcolepsy: - The condition of falling asleep spontaneously and unwillingly at inappropriate times.

Sleep apnea: - The obstruction of the airway during sleep, causing loud snoring and sudden awakenings when breathing stops.

Periodic limb movement disorder (PLMD): - Sudden involuntary movement of arms and/or legs during sleep, for example kicking the legs. Also known as nocturnal myoclonus.

Restless legs syndrome (RLS): - An irresistible urge to move legs. RLS sufferers often also have PLMD (Periodic limb movement disorder).

Night terrors or Pavor nocturnus: - Abrupt awakening from sleep with behavior consistent with terror.

Sleep Disorder Articles

Stress Management for Fibromyalgia
If you suffer from fibromyalgia you know how stressful the condition can be. Pain and discomfort can interfere with your daily activities and severely degrade your quality of life. You may need to adjust plans around your symptoms, you may feel a lack of stamina, and you may be tired all the time.

Narcolepsy Symptoms
The persistence of narcolepsy all throughout life however, does not mean that one cannot do anything but to completely surrender to the sleep attacks.

Snoring Relief
Snoring is the trouble or the noise that people make when asleep. The reason for this is that during daytime the air is able to flow freely through the passages of breathing but at night they become dry and vibrate.

Sleep Apnea
Sleep Apnea is commonly found when breathing is paused for sometime during sleep. This type of apnea lasts within very few seconds to minutes. Breathing comes to normal again with a choking sound or a loud snort.

Nasal Strips
Nasal strips are one of the most popular remedies that quickly cure snoring or nasal congestion. Nasal Strips is like a Band-Aid with a flexible backbone, which holds the nostrils open when the strip is stuck across the bridge of a nose.

Healing Power of a Good Nights Sleep
Sleep helps your body heal. If you're not getting good sleep you're not giving your muscles, especially your back muscles, time to rejuvenate themselves for the next day's activities...

Sleep Disorders and Daylight Savings Time
In this excerpt, Dr. Michael Breus shares on obstructive sleep apnea, the affects of daylight savings time and more. The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Dr. Michael Breus, the author of Good Night and Web MDs sleep expert.

Reality of Sleep Disorders
One of the things that's really pretty fascinating, Kevin, is just how many people are reporting any symptom of a sleep problem. If you look back at the National Sleep Foundation data from 2000, you'll see that roughly sixty-two percent of the overall population was reporting a problem.

Insomnia and How to Cure It
I recently read some articles and books on the subject of insomnia, improving my understanding and knowledge of how to tackle the problem. These are my tips.

Acquiring a Good Nights Sleep
40 million people in the United States endure sleep problems every year, as stated by the FDA. The 2007 Sleep in America Poll confirmed that two-thirds of women surveyed experienced difficulty sleeping at least a few nights a week throughout the last month.

How Much Sleep do we Need?
The number of hours of sleep we need on a daily basis varies depending on our ages and our current state of health. If we expect the sleep we do get to be beneficial, those hours of sleep must consist of quality sleep.

Herbal Medicine for Insomnia
Chronic fatigue syndrome is a disorder is which a person is overcome with fatigue. A type of fatigue that is not relieved with rest, instead as time goes on and can impact your ability to perform your daily activities.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) may have struck a family member. Most certainly, you know someone who has been stricken by this misunderstood and debilitating illness. CFS can strike both sexes and any age group. You may feel helpless and confused about what to say or do for a stricken relative or friend.

Sleep Disorders Tips for Better Sleep
Create a good sleeping environment that is dark, quiet, cool, and free of distractions. If light bothers you, wear an eye mask and cover the windows. To drown out noise, run a fan or a white noise machine, or use earplugs.

How to Avoid Daytime Fatigue
Is it the middle of the morning or afternoon, and you can barely think of anything else but catching a little more shut eye? Even simple projects or tasks can sometimes seem incredibly hard to manage. You may even have to work to summon up enough energy to stay alert for your drive home from work.

What Causes Sleep Apnea
Sleep apnea is a strange condition whereby the sufferer actually stops breathing during the night. This articles discusses the form that the sleep disorder takes.

Sleep Apnea Symptoms
This article discusses how a person with sleep apnea can wake up in the morning with a severe headache and be prone to drowsiness throughout the day.  The article goes on to discuss strategies to help with the sleep disorder.

Sleeping Pills
Sleeping disorders have become more and more prominent over the ages. More than 60 million American adults encounter difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or sleeping well. Stress and environment also contribute to sleep disorders.

Is there a Cure for Sleep Apnea?
There are 2 kinds of sleep apena: obstructive and a central. The obstructive apnea of sleep is the most common type of sleep disorder.

Sleep Apnea Treatments
Sleep apnea (apnea comes from the Greek for "without breath") is a sleeping disorder which causes the sufferer to stop breathing many times a night, for up to a minute each time.

Effective Treatment for Fibromyalgia Patients
Fibromyalgia is a perplexing disorder that has just begun to make itself known in the medical community. Because of its wide range of symptoms and often intermittent nature, little is known about effective treatments for the condition.

Types Of Sleep Disorders
Narcolepsy is a very dangerous disease because the person affected is so tired that they fall asleep at any time. The person is overwhelmed by fatigue even if they have a full nights sleep.

My Experience With Sleep Apnea
Obstructive sleep apnea apparently runs in my family. My father has it (and unfortunately refuses to seek treatment for it). My brother has it. And not surprisingly, I was diagnosed with sleep apnea in early 2006.

Snoring - Causes and Treatments
Snoring is actually the sound resulted by the vibration of the soft palate and uvula, while the breathing through mouth. Depending on the specialties of the mouth anatomy, the flapping sound may differ, and as a result snoring sound ranges from feeble soft sounds to deep unpleasant roaring sound.

Sleep Apnea Disorders
If you stop breathing for 10 or more seconds at a time and more than ten times an hour during sleep, and if you snore, you may have what has been widely diagnosed as Sleep Apnea.

FMS - fibromyalgia syndrome and chronic fatigue syndrome - CFS
FMS (fibromyalgia syndrome) is a widespread musculoskeletal pain and fatigue disorder for which the cause is still unknown. Fibromyalgia means pain in the muscles, ligaments, and tendons – the soft fibrous tissues in the body. Most patients with FMS say that they ache all over. Their muscles may feel like they have been pulled or overworked. Sometimes the muscles twitch and at other times they burn. More women than men are afflicted with FMS, and it shows up in people of all ages.