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Sleep Apnea Treatments

Sleep apnea is when you stop breathing while you sleep. If you have sleep apnea, the BiPAP can help you breathe this way during sleep. If a CPAP ma...

Sleep Apnea Symptoms

For many people, the only obvious symptom of sleep apnea is fatigue or sleepiness during the day. Sleep apnea causes breathing disturbances while y...

Sleep Apnea

Instead, your brain fails to tell your muscles to breathe because of issues in your respiratory control center. They’ll review your family’s histor...

Mouth Devices for Sleep Apnea

If you have been diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea -- a condition in which relaxation of the muscles around the tongue and throat causes the t...

Nightmares in Adults

Nightmares tend to occur most often during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, when most dreaming takes place. Because periods of REM sleep become prog...

How Much Sleep Do I Need?

But experts say that if you feel drowsy during the day, even during boring activities, you haven't had enough sleep. Studies make it clear that sle...

Sleep Paralysis

Sleep researchers conclude that, in most cases, sleep paralysis is simply a sign that your body is not moving smoothly through the stages of sleep....

What are REM and Non-REM Sleep?

Stage 2: You are in light sleep. Stages 3: This is the deep sleep stage. During the deep stages of NREM sleep, the body repairs and regrows tissues...

Sleep Apnea Tests and Diagnosis

If you have symptoms of sleep apnea, your doctor may ask you to have a sleep apnea test, called a polysomnogram (PSG). Similar, more portable equip...

Physical Side Effects of Oversleeping

Many people with hypersomnia experience symptoms of anxiety, low energy, and memory problems as a result of their almost constant need for sleep. O...

Periodic Limb Movement Disorder

Periodic limb movement disorder (PLMD) is repetitive cramping or jerking of the legs during sleep. PLMD movements are not myoclonus, however, and t...

Insomnia

Insomnia is a sleep disorder in which you have trouble falling and/or staying asleep. If it’s hard for you to do everyday activities because you’re...