I got 7 hours last night, and I don't know whether the cats were about or if my bed's inflated wrong or something, I almost fell asleep in class earlier.
2006-12-14 05:05:18 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
If this is a chronic condition (that is, if it seems to happen all the time), you should have your doctor refer you to a sleep clinic for a sleep test. There are a variety of conditions that can interfere with sleep, including (as another responder mentioned) a condition called 'sleep apnea'.
The soft tissue around the base of your throat that forms your airway is normally kept wide open by the muscles in your neck and throat. When you fall asleep, the muscle tone of your body relaxes, including these muscles. In some people (and not just a few; this is pretty common), the soft tissue in your airway gets so narrow that the act of breathing actually causes it the airway to completely close (much in the same way that sucking very hard on paper drinking straw will cause it to collapse). This momentarily causes your breathing to stop -- which wakes you almost all the way up. Your muscle tone comes back, the airway opens, and you fall back asleep. This all happens over just a few seconds -- but the problem is that is happens over and over again so you don't really get much good-quality sleep at all.
Sleep apnea is particularly present in overweight/obese people, but it can (and does) occur in athletes as well.
Only a sleep test using a monitor called a polysomnograph can definitively diagnose sleep apnea -- but if you have ever been told you snore when you're asleep, that's a very good clue that apnea might be present.
There are other sleep disorders which may also cause you to not get a good night's sleep -- a sleep test checks for virtually all of them.
2006-12-14 05:52:11 · answer #1 · answered by Mark H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could be your mattress or your pillow. Maybe you arent eating the right foods for energy. The way you breathe while you are asleep could have something to do with it. Or maybe you just have a boring teacher in a boring class!!!
2006-12-14 14:29:35 · answer #2 · answered by browneyes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know someone with sleep apthneya spelled wrong probably. He went to a doctor because he was tired all the time. Now he sleeps with a machine hooked up to his face but he is ok.
2006-12-14 13:08:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A few factors that contribute to how "Awake" you feel is how much you roll at night. What you eat can affect your energy level greatly. As silly as it sounds being inactive also affects your energy level.
2006-12-14 13:13:42 · answer #4 · answered by Chris 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it could have to do with what you eat.
2006-12-14 13:07:53 · answer #5 · answered by pegasis 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋