Breathing Related Sleep Disorder

Question: What are the symtoms of a breathing related sleep disorder ? Can they mimic ADD?

Answer: I do know what you are referring to. I did read in a medical journal awhile back about hyperactivity and symptoms similar to ADHD in children being related to a sleep disorder. I did a quick yahoo search for you and here's an article: http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2004/10/sle…

Question: *eating disorder related* Can't Breathe When Sleeping? I'm anorexic and my weight has been at its all time low (113lbs, puts my BMI at 16.2), I've been having problems sleeping. If I lie down I can't breathe (not even through my mouth). It feels as if my throat swells or something. I was trying to just let it pass but I couldn't breathe to the point I thought I was dying. I had to sit myself up to sleep, and that worked well. Could this have anything to do with my weight? I have asthma, but it's only exercise induced - obviously I'm not exercising while sleeping (nor before hand am I). I do have an appt. with my doctor tomorrow, I was hoping someone had insight to this...

Answer: Hon my guess is that it is asthma related. Being at a low body mass means that you often have a low white blood cell count meaning you are less able to fight off infection; so I would say that you probably have caught a virus which makes it even harder for your body to function efficiently. Put that together with all the extra work it is having to do to keep you alive and you have a pretty potent cocktail.

Question: sleep, exersice, enviroment related asthma? Unbalanced Dysfunctional Breathing disorder, asthma sleep apnea gerds and sleep insomnia I like to get more information about asthma symptom while sleeping and at work and while exercising. polease help about my disorder i have. i have allergy asthma, gerds acid reflex, sleep apnea and insomia. I have breathing problem and gag reflexes get hot flashes dizzy spells extream headaches pounding headache throbbing headache and dizzy spell once a month. headache every day. cough every day i don't smoke or do any drugs. little over weight and have breathing problem while sleeping please help. i was thining about getting an oxygen machine and mask to sleep with. WHat about falling asleep with a nebulizer and meds please help me understand what Unbalanced Dysfunctional Breathing disorder is. I had a spell yester day morning after a shower i got a hot flash and dizzy spell with headhace dry hacking gaging cough with the burps. I sat down and felt fine. WIth exersice induce asthma can i useoxygen

Answer: I'm not sure exactly what your question is, but I did find what seems to be a good website on Unbalanced Dysfunctional Breathing. I'll post the link: http://www.breathing.com/articles/udb.ht… Also you mentioned something about sleep apnea. This is a disorder in which you stop breathing while you are sleeping for a period of somewhere between 10 secs and 1 min before you breath again. If you want more information about this you can go to the forum: http://www.cpaptalk.com and they will help you out. I hope this helps. Good luck.

Question: Problem with sleep and heart? i posted this in general health care but know one answered me so ill ask here. okay I'm a teenager and quite a while ago i was sleeping and my partner woke me up because i was having a fit when i woke up i was gasping for breath and then i jumped out of bed and don't remember the rest till i came to at the door at the other side of the room but my partner said that i was saying and shouting whats happening and my eyes were huge. she ran into a friends room scared and some other friend came out to see why we were screaming and i had a panic attack and pretty much fainted and found it hard to breath once i got up of the floor my eyes were huge like black no color i guess cause i was scared.for the next about a week or 2 my heart was really painful like it was being squeezed it was really bad the first 2 days after it happened but its not like that all the time now except every now and then like if I'm listening to a song watching a movie or thinking anything at least once a day my heart will get sore like its being held tightly in someones hand. i suffer from chronic pain in my back from a car crash and after going to a chiropractor that specializes on backs i was diagnosed with be nine Marfins syndrome the hypermobillity one of then. i read some things saying that Marfins syndrome is related to sleep apnea and then saw sleep apnea can be related to night seizures and found that what causes them is your breathing not working properly during sleep and it makes it worse if the breathing is blocked then i remembered that i bent the cartilage in the middle of my nose ages ago and i can only properly breath through one nostril but i don't notice it anymore because its only on the inside. also since it all happened i have been jerking and flinching when falling asleep or when I'm really tired i read that this is about blood pressure and breathing and the heart not performing whilst sleeping and that heart disease can also be a cause of jerking and night seizures and there's more i had night terrors as a kid i never get them now but i get other sleeping disorders like sleep paralysis and such like but i seem to get them more often and worse than others i know that some of the sleeping disorders are genetic and some of the family get's some of them but it seems i get the worst of it. i know this all sounds ******* ridicules but i just want to know what the hell is wrong with me but not just for me btu for my girlfriend the whole thing freaked her out and she is still freaked out by things liek the jerking whilst falling asleep and I'm sure it would put her mind at ease and mine to figure out what it all is.so hopefully someone can give me an answer because the more i think about it the more complicated it gets and I'm kind of worried about my heart i was gonna go to a doctor but i think i should get more information first thank you. :) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx…

Answer: request a Sleep study

Question: sleep disorder? every so often while i am sleeping i jerk awake. when i say jerk awake i mean really jerk. from a dead sleep i will snap up, mostly my head, like im startled. i will go from being sound asleep to completely awake. this happens like a reflex, my body doesnt come up much, its not like im getting up, my head snaps and turns like someone has come up and grabbed my shoulder and startled me. this happens so suddenly that i get whiplash from it. theres also a kind of sound inside my head like a "kink", i guess where my brain is getting jolted so hard and also a flash of light inside my head. anyone ever had this happen or have this diagnosed. every once in a while i will take a quick breath in between breathes while i am awake, again, something i couldnt duplicate if i wanted to, but a reflexive response. dont know if they are related.

Answer: Maybe this will help point you in the right direction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk

Question: Is this article True? 1) Less may mean more. For people who sleep under seven hours a night, the fewer zzzz's they get, the more obese they tend to be, according to a 2006 Institute of Medicine report. This may relate to the discovery that insufficient sleep appears to tip hunger hormones out of whack. Leptin, which suppresses appetite, is lowered; ghrelin, which stimulates appetite, gets a boost. 2) You're more apt to make bad food choices. A study published this week in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine found that people with obstructive sleep apnea or other severely disordered breathing while asleep ate a diet higher in cholesterol, protein, total fat, and total saturated fat. Women were especially affected. 3) Diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance, its precursor, may become more likely. A 2005 study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that people getting five or fewer hours of sleep each night were 2.5 times more likely to be diabetic, while those with six hours or fewer were 1.7 times more likely. 4) The ticker is put at risk. A 2003 study found that heart attacks were 45 percent more likely in women who slept for five or fewer hours per night than in those who got more. 5) Blood pressure may increase. Obstructive sleep apnea, for example, has been associated with chronically elevated daytime blood pressure, and the more severe the disorder, the more significant the hypertension, suggests the 2006 IOM report. Obesity plays a role in both disorders, so losing weight can ease associated health risks. 6) Auto accidents rise. As stated in a 2007 report in the New England Journal of Medicine, nearly 20 percent of serious car crash injuries involve a sleepy driver—and that's independent of alcohol use. 7) Balance is off. Older folks who have trouble getting to sleep, who wake up at night, or are drowsy during the day could be 2 to 4.5 times more likely to sustain a fall, found a 2007 study in the Journal of Gerontology. 8) You may be more prone to depression. Adults who chronically operate on fumes report more mental distress, depression, and alcohol use. Adolescents suffer, too: One survey of high school students found similarly high rates of these issues. Middle schoolers, too, report more symptoms of depression and lower self-esteem. 9) Kids may suffer more behavior problems. Research from an April issue of the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine found that children who are plagued by insomnia, short duration of sleeping, or disordered breathing with obesity, for example, are more likely to have behavioral issues like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. 10) Death's doorstep may be nearer. Those who get five hours or less per night have approximately 15 percent greater risk of dying—regardless of the cause—according to three large population-based studies published in the journals Sleep and the Archives of General Psychiatry.

Answer: More (& longer term)studies need to be done, but current studies do indicate a connection of sleep patterns to basic health!

Question: This is what makes you dream! i know they will add a question mark after this! lol! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!? i already know The discovery of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, a mentally active period during which dreaming occurs, provided a biological explanation for this phenomenon. It also inspired interest in sleep research by giving scientists a marker for changes in the brain during sleep. From this knowledge, they have begun to understand and develop treatments for major sleep disorders such as insomnia and sleep apnea. Everyone sleeps. This fundamental activity consumes one-third of our lifetimes and can overpower all other needs. But what does sleep do for us? What happens when you are sleep deprived? What are sleep disorders? Much of what is known about sleep stems from the groundbreaking 1953 discovery of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. This is an active period of sleep marked in humans by intense activity in the brain and rapid bursts of eye movements. At the same time, scientists discovered that REM sleep is when dreaming occurs. Before the 1950s, most scientists thought of sleep as an unchanging, dormant period of little interest. Hardly anything was known about sleep or dreaming. The earliest hints that sleep was a changing state came with studies showing that blood pressure, heart rate, and other body functions in humans rise and fall in a pattern during sleep. Because researchers had observed some eye movement during sleep, they recorded these movements by placing electrodes behind the eyes. They also recorded muscle activity and brain waves. They found regular periods of very rapid eye movement and rapidly changing brain waves that alternated with periods of deep, quiet, sleep marked by large, slow brain waves. Later, scientists found that the body is paralyzed during REM sleep. The REM sleep discovery: Suggested that sleep is a complex activity, fundamentally different from waking, but just as active. Provided a biological marker for dreaming so that immediate dream reports could be collected. Compelled scientists to examine the physiology of sleep. When researchers woke people up during REM sleep and asked them about their dreams, they found that almost all who awakened during REM sleep could remember their dreams. They realized that people who claim they do not dream really do not remember their dreams the next morning. Also, scientists found that, rather than being fleeting events, dreams vary in length according to the length of REM period. In later studies, scientists divided non-REM sleep into four stages, accounting for about 75 percent of total sleep. In each stage, brain waves become progressively larger and slower, and sleep becomes deeper. After reaching stage 4, the deepest period, the pattern reverses, and sleep becomes progressively lighter until REM sleep, the most active period, occurs. This cycle typically occurs about once every 90 minutes in humans. Scientists found that brain activity during REM sleep begins in the pons, a structure in the brainstem, and neighboring midbrain regions. The pons sends signals to the thalamus and to the cerebral cortex, which is responsible for most thought processes. It also sends signals to turn off motor neurons in the spinal cord, causing a temporary paralysis that prevents movement. Research on normal sleep led scientists to recognize and study sleep disorders, which afflict up to 70 million Americans. These disorders include insomnia, or difficulty in falling asleep, and sleep apnea, which causes breathing to stop for extended periods during sleep. These can cause behavior problems and accidents related to fatigue. Once sleep disorders became recognized, scientists began to find treatments for them. Almost everything known about the physiology of sleep has been learned by studying experimental animals. For example, scientists found that sleep phases are closely related to the activity of certain groups of nerve cells releasing brain chemicals that relay information from one neuron to another. Research on these specialized cell groups is helping scientists to devise specific drug treatments for sleep disorders. Yet much remains to be uncovered. Exactly what sleep does for humans is unknown. Researchers are just beginning to unravel the mechanisms explaining why and how people nod off and wake up.

Answer: LOL. COME ON MAN. IM ONLY 16 AND I KNEW THIS ALREADY! ITS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE.

Question: Do I have post traumatic stress disorder or what? read below.? I just woke up about 1/2 hour ago from the worst nightmare of my life, no exaggeration. I was struggling to breath and could see someone close to me, but couldnt get them to hear me to help me and i was dying. Back in december i had a near death experience, i took two medications that had serious interactions and after going to sleep my breathing stopped and if it werent for my wife hearing my labored breathing would be dead right now. i was revived in the back of an ambulance after my breathing had stopped completly, with a breathing tube shoved down my nose surrounded by paramedics. Is the nightmare i had related to the real incident, or just a nightmare, or repressed memories, or what? Please unless you're a jerk no stupid comments.

Answer: It is very doubtful that you have post traumatic stress disorder unless you have other symptoms. PTSD has many other effects on a person's life. Mentally, emotionally,socially, and physically. However, it is believed that dreams can be the doorway to wisdom being surfassed from your soul or subconcious being. I dreams are annalyzed properly, they can provide much knowledge. Look closely at your life, what is missing? Have you earnestly understood the value your wife has for saving your life? Have you forgotten how enriched your life may be? Are you still carelessly using meds or other things that may harm what was given back to you(your life). Have you learned what was intended for you to learn from your mishap. Your answers to these questions will tell you. If you have not gained the wisdom from your experience, than you can probably expect to have that or a similar dream again.

Question: I wake up suffocating ? Sometimes i have noticed that during the night i wake up suffocating, i find it very hard to breath and i stay in this state for a couple of minutes when i feel I'm about to pass out that's when i start breathing. I don't have asthma, or breathing problems or a sleeping disorder but i got a feeling it has to do with the other side, cause i have read similar cases i can so relate to them. I would love to hear your opinions on this i already went to the doctors and they said im fine, i dont have a sleeping disorder or a heart condition

Answer: I don't know what causes this. I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night and I feel like there's something on my chest. Like you, I don't have a medical condition or anything. I've been told that it could be stress. I don't know. But I do know that it's not the devil. That's just ignorant. Don't start thinking that because it doesn't make sense. And I don't think that screaming "Jesus" will do anything either. But if you want to do that, you can. But I assure you, it has nothing to do with demons or the devil.

Question: Is this related to the Cerebral Palsy or Hydrocephalus i have? I have Cerebral Palsy and Hydrocephalus.I sometimes forget the simplest things. Like I have a bunch of email accounts and I remebered all of the passwords, except for my main email. My mind went blank and seemed kinda cloudy.A couple of days later,I remebered it. I also have Hydrocephalus. I have headaches when I wake up in the mornings and I din't get a shunt yet. Anyone else has Cerebral Palsy and forgets things to? Or could this be related to the Hydrocephalus? Sometimes when I first begin to drift off into sleep,I notice that I stop breathing for a few seconds. Math I have trouble in,I can do the basics and some algebra. I was put in GED classes in high school. Some math,like,when other kids all seem to get it,it takes me awhile to understand.I won't get it,like if someone explains it to me over and over again,I still have a hard time,but i eventually catch on and understand it. I was born 3 and a half months early, weighing 1 lb and 8 1/2 pounds.and i had absence seizures when i was little(b/c of the CP,we didnt find out that i had hydrocephalus round thid time last year.),wll the seizures come back? or become worse?i have internal body shaking sometimes.its from shoulder to waist. it sometimes shakes after i purge.im trying to stop with eating disorder.

Answer: forgetting would be the hydrocephalus. You don't have a shunt? Why not? Sounds like you need to be seeing your neurosurgeon! If you are not shunted the seizures could and more then likely will come back.