How to tell if you have a sleep disorder – Part 1

The easiest way to tell if you have a sleeping disorder is by lack of a good night sleep. Not just one or two nights, but on an ongoing basis. Remember, even insomnia is classified as a sleeping disorder, even if it is brought on by environmental or organic factors. Especially if the insomnia is more than just a few nights. We all experience it more than a few times in our lifetimes. A lack of a good night’s sleep on an ongoing basis is a strong indicator of a sleeping disorders that can be insomnia or other.

Sleeping disorders such as sleep apnea and chronic obstructive apnea can cause the sufferer to wake up from several times to several hundred times a night, as there is a disruption of signals from the brain to the muscles that control breathing, or a blockage of the windpipe. This can cause the body to arouse itself from a deep sleep many times during the night, causing the body to have to go back into a deep-sleep cycle many times-not allowing the body to sleep properly.

Night terrors can also cause tiredness. But they can also generate a myriad of other symptoms, such as rapid heart rate, sweating, increased breathing, extremely strange illusory experiences that are not dreams. They can be extremely vivid, three dimensional images of beings and other things, or just terrifying feelings of vague images or just a sense of something. Some night terror victims may also experience the “old hag” syndrome-common in night terror victims-of an old woman pressing down on their chest. Night terror victims may also experience small, non-life threatening seizures as the brain is misfiring signals.

Narcolepsy may cause an individual to drop off into unconsciousness, even during daytime. Effectively a sufferer will know he/she is a victim of this sleeping disorder by a loss of time over a constant basis without logical explanation (or somebody else close to them notices it).

You can tell if you have Bruxism by an unexplained (and sometimes dramatic) wearing down of teeth.