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I had a lovely patient today that I was doing a home study on because she was having episodes of sleep paralysis. She said she went looking for answers on the internet and she said everything did not make sense to her. I sat her down for three minutes explained the problem and she left feeling much better and happy to be doing the home test. So this basically taught me two things. One, that...

This may not sound scientific but it is a good question. Do you wake up to the loud peeping of an annoying alarm clock, or your favoriet music, or your dog licking your hand? How you rest may be tied to it. If you know that as soon as you relax and fall asleep you are going to be awoken by something that is going to annoy you then you will not let your body relax enough to get the sleep you...

Many people wake in the morning with headaches. It almost makes people feel like they do not want to go to bed because in the morning they know they will feel worse. If you are one of them there may be a solution to getting rid of these am headaches. Morning headaches are one of the symptoms of sleep apnea. This is due to two facts. One, having had a night with disrupted sleep where...

When i get back a sleep report from our reading doctors it always suggest we talk about sleep hygeine. Since most people have no clue what we mean when we state simply you need to work on yrou sleep hygeine I thought I would share a few thoughts about this. Sleep hygeine is all about hw to make your enviornment ideal for sleep. You can do it even if you work the night shift. I knwo I work both...

You wake up with the nagging pain, difficulty concentrating and wishing you could just go back to bed and pull the covers over your head. If this happens on a regular basis there may be more going on then a hatred of mornings. Sleep disorders and sleep deprivation can have a serous effect on your waking hours. One of the symptoms of sleep apnea is a morning headache. It is an effect of...