What Are The Common Sleep Problems?
Patients with sleep most commonly complain of the following:
- I cannot sleep
- I cannot stay awake
- I cannot sleep at the right time
- I thrash move about in bed, and I have repeated leg jerking.
These complaints address the entire field of sleep disturbances. “I cannot sleep” means that the person has trouble falling asleep or staying asleep and wakes up repeatedly throughout the night, including early hours of the morning. “I cannot stay awake” means that he or she falls asleep during the day at inappropriate places and under inappropriate circumstances. “I cannot sleep at the right time” means that the individual experiences difficulty going to sleep at the appropriate time, that is, he or she either goes to sleep late 9for example, 3.00 am to 5.00 am) and wake up late 9for example, 11.00am to 1.00pm) or goes to sleep early (for example 8.00 pm to 9.00pm) and wakes up early (for example 3.00 am to 5.00 am).
The last complaint – thrashing and leg jerking – refer to someone with periodic movement of the leg during sleep at night (witnessed by the bed partner) or thrashing, flailing, and other abnormal who movements during sleep. These motions occur in a variety of sleep disorders.
Sleep deprivation and insomnia are two most common sleep problems in our society today. Other sleep problems include the following:
- Sleep apnea
- Restless legs
- Narcolepsy
- Sleep disturbance as a result of psychiatric, general medical, and neurological disorders
- Drug and alcohol related sleep problems
- Parasomnias (abnormal movements and behavior occurring during sleep)
- Circadian rhythm sleep disorders (mismatch of timing between the group of nerve cells functioning as a time clock in the center of the brain and the outside clock)
Dr. Samantha Hement has 10 years experience in neurology. She is specialty concerned with nervous system function and sleeping disorders. She has created a website to deal with insomnia and provided some information on how to deal your insomnia without medications.
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