Hypersomnia

You might think that most of the patients of sleep clinics are being treated for sleeplessness commonly referred to as insomnia but that is not the case the majority of sleep clinic patients suffer from disorders of excessive sleep or hypersomnia. While most insomniacs somehow managed to drag themselves through the day and function at acceptable although not optimal levels this is not so for people who suffer from hypersomnia they are incapacitated by irresistible urges to sleep during the day often in inappropriate situations at business meetings in supermarkets or at parties even more dangerous is their failure to remain awake when driving or operating machinery falling asleep in such situations could obviously be life-threatening. Hypersomnia acts suffer from narcolepsy for which the primary symptom is excessive daytime sleepiness though not a parent in childhood this symptom most often appears for the first time during the teen years and continues throughout a person's life. The sleep attacks may occur as many as 15 to 20 times during the course of the day and last for periods from 15 minutes up to 2:00 hours. What can be done to help those suffering from narcolepsy there are certain drugs that can help and specialists suggest voluntary napping to decrease the frequency of such sleep attacks.