does sleep apnea cause you to fall asleep uncontrollably?
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 at
10:43 am
Tagged with: Apnea • asleep. • Cause • fall • Sleep • uncontrollably
Filed under: Sleep Apnea Causes
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It can make you feel tired all day .. and possibly fall asleep because you are not resting well at night. Or you may have (not sure of the spelling … ) Narcolepsy .. when a person just falls asleep for no reason.. it happens quickly .. you might be “out” for a few minutes and then wake up .. it would happen several times a day if it is that. Best thing to do is to get a professional sleep study done. Why ? Because if you do have sleep apnea .. your blood oxygen can go very low when you sleep and the possibility exisits of it causing stroke, heart attack or seizures. No.. this is NOT a joke. You probably need a C-PAP .. a simple machine that helps oxygen get into your system. See a doctor that specializes in sleep. Good Luck !
No. Sleep apnea “occurs when you regularly stop breathing for 10 seconds or longer during sleep… The main symptoms of sleep apnea are loud snoring and feeling very sleepy during the day. ” (Yahoo! Health) I believe what you’re thinking of is often referred to as “narcolepsy” (see: http://health.yahoo.com/ency/healthwise/nord55;_ylt=An18dDKnfchN0z82fu5ZaBOmxbAB)
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No, sleep apnea is where you stop breathing in your sleep and wake up several times a night and have very unrestful sleep, what you have described is called Narcolepsy and need to see your doctor.
No, Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder in which people have uncontrolled sleep cycles. sleep apnea is more of an obstructive sleep problem that causes airway blockage and poor sleep due to frequent interuption in sleep gasping for a breath.
That depends on what you mean by “uncontrollably” – you will probably nod off in front of the TV or while reading if you have sleep apnea, but you are not likely to fall asleep in the middle of an interesting conversation or while eating a meal. Narcolepsy will not be helped by a CPAP, but the symptoms of sleep apnea will. You really need to see a doctor and have a general health workup and probably a sleep study.
Neither apnea nor narcolepsy is anything to mess around with – both can kill you! Or others. My neighbor with narcolepsy fell asleep behind the wheel and hit a tree I had been standing beside a couple of minutes earlier – no one was injured, but it scared the daylights out of all of us!
Please see a doctor right away – you need medical help ASAP, and neither of these conditions will just go away without treatment. Please – make the appointment now, and tell the person on the other end of the phone that it can’t wait until three months from next Thursday!
Are you trying to guess if you have sleep apnea?
Sleep apnea occurs in its various forms while a person is is various stages of sleep, and regardless it keeps you from getting true REM “deep”, kinda like just like you go into real deep sleep you stop breathing, this wakes you just enough and you start breathing again! Still asleep, alive but not that real good deep sleep BUT NOTE THIS DID REQUIRE THAT THE PERSON WAKE UP!
HAD THE PERSON BEEN SAY DRUNK WITH ALCOHOL OR IN A DEEP SLEEP ON DRUGS AND THIS CONDITION OF EXISTED HE WOULD NOT OF AWAKENED! SLEEP APNEA UNTREATED CAN MAKE A PERSON FEEL DEAD!
IF YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD YOU HAVE SLEEP APNEA GO TO A SLEEP LAB FOR EVALUATION BY A MEDICAL DOCTOR, IT COULD SAVE AND IMPROVE YOUR LIFE! YOU CANNOT DETERIMINE IT YOURSELF!
I DENIED THAT I HAD IT FOR YEARS! THAT IS UNTIL I STOPPED BREATHING WHILE IN AN OPERATION, NEARLY DID NOT RESTART! BET YOUR TAIL THIS HARD HEADED MULE BOTTOM WAS IN A SLEEP LAB WITHIN A COUPLE OF WEEKS!
THE SLEEP LAB WILL FIND ANY OTHER THINGS WHICH DISTURB YOUR SLEEP RESTLESS LEG SYNDROME ETC
I AM 61 YEARS YOUNG AND HAVE NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE!
NOW THE CPAP MACHINE TAKES ABOUT 2 WEEKS TO GET USE TO BEFORE YOU REALLY WILL NOT NOTICE IT AT NIGHT BUT IT IS REALLY WORTH THE EFFORT! THEY ARE VERY QUIET.
IF YOU THINK YOU HAVE SLEEP APNEA- FIND OUT!
IF YOU HAVE SLEEP APNEA, TREAT SLEEP APNEA LIKE THE DOCTOR ORDERED! LITERALLY IT WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE! SLEEP APNEA DOES KILL!
HAVE A GOOD DAY!
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