Alpha non-REM sleep disorder Margaret T. Johnson, MD

Alpha non-REM sleep disorder

Margaret T. Johnson, MD



There are two major categories: insomnia, in which people have difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep or waking too early, or they have non-restorative sleep. When I tell my patients who have non-restorative sleep that they have insomnia by mistake they get very upset with me. They tell me, "No, I don’t have any problem sleeping. I can fall asleep easily. I don’t have insomnia." And that’s actually quite true. So then it’s important to realize that there is a variety of other sleep disorders and environmental sleep disorder is when people are having trouble sleeping because of environmental factors, light, noise, pets, snoring partners, elderly parents wandering the halls at night, whatever it might be, crying children, new babies. That’s actually an ICD-9 code. Then there are people who are not sleeping because they have such horrendous sleep hygiene habits. Yesterday in one of the meetings the issue came up about teaching people, sleep retraining, and somebody said to me, "You mean you just teach them sleep hygiene and they get better?" Well, there is actually one small group of people that that actually fits for. And then there’s people who could have several of these at once. In non-restorative sleep, as you know - which is sort of classic in fibromyalgia - they say they, they fall asleep, they sleep fine and they wake up and they are exhausted. Many of these people have not a clue that they have a sleep disorder, in fact they get kind of upset if you tell them that. They have ascribed their fatigue to the systemic nature of the fibromyalgia without any understanding that a large part of their fatigue is coming from their non-restorative sleep disorder.

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اسم المستخدم: 1929
كلمة السر:1929