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Sleep Disorder
Sleep disorders come in many forms. these include:-
- Sleep apnea (sleep apnoea); where there is marked disturbance of breathing during the night, often associated with snoring. This leads to momentary waking, not usually noticeable to the patient, and loss of relaxing sleep. A consequence of this is daytime tiredness and drowsiness.
- Insomnia; principally a difficulty in getting to sleep, sometimes with early morning waking (a feature of depression
Rarer causes include narcolepsy where there are very short episodes of sleep during the day causing accidents and injuries.
Sometimes sleep disorder is a symptom of other problems; for instance, excessive wakefulness can be related to thyroid disease. A doctor should exclude any medically remediable cause before treatment.
Sleep Treatments
Modern Western Medicine
In a depressive sleep disorder tricyclic antidepressants are usually used such as Prothiaden or Nortriptyline. Difficulty getting to sleep responds to benzodiazepine drugs such as Lormetazepam and Temazepam. These all have side effects, the latter especially are addictive. They are only licenced for six weeks and should not be taken for longer than that.
The pineal gland hormone melatonin is thought to help the sleep disturbance due to jet lag.
Complementary Therapy
Please help us to help you by letting your practitioner know about Shared Care so that they might contact us (email to:- editor(at)shared-care.com) with their evidence to add their therapy to this list.
The therapies/educational systems shown below have been noted as helpful for Sleep Disorder
These are commonly available:-
| Chiropractic |
| Homeopathy |
| Hypnosis |
| Massage |
| Naturopathy |
| Neurolinguistic Programming |
| Pilates |
| Reiki |
| Shiatsu |
| Western Herbal Medicine |
| Less so are:- |
| Autogenic Training |
| Biofeedback |
Please also see Approaches Individual to the Practitioner for lists of those whose approaches don't fall into any specific category
The following practitioners have indicated that they have a special interest in Sleep Disorder
Please click on the "more.." button for fuller details.
| Mrs. | Cindy | Fisher | British Columbia | Canada | |
Sleep Disorder Blog
Add your contributions to the blog for this page. The button is at the bottom of the page or follow this link to the blog for this page. These can be absolutely anything related to the topic of this page that needs an answer from other members of the community, or a space for you to complain about or comment on anything related to that topic.
Sleep Disorder Support Groups
The home country of the group is listed. Most will provide more information, advice, contacts and help wherever you live:-
| Narcolepsy and Overwhelming Daytime Sleep Society of Australia NODDS | Australia | National |
| British Snoring and Sleep Apnoea Association | Great Britain | National |
| Humber Sleep Apnoea Support Group | Great Britain | 50 mile radius from Cottingham, East Yorkshire |
| The British Sleep Foundation | Great Britain | National |
| The Sleep Apnoea Trust Association | Great Britain | National |
| Irish Sleep Apnoea Trust | Ireland | National |
| Narcolepsy Support Group of New Zealand | New Zealand | National |
| Sleep Apnoea Association of New Zealand | New Zealand | National |
| Sleep New Zealand | New Zealand | National |
| American Sleep Apnea Association | United States of America | National |
| Narcolepsy Network | United States of America | National |
| National Sleep Foundation | United States of America | National |
Please email editor(at)shared-care.com with the name and URL of your suggestions for additional groups.
Places to Eat and Stay, Tourist, Town and Travel Guides
These sections are designed to provide help in finding restaurants, cafes, hotels, resorts, towns, beaches, travel companies and so on that are user friendly for our communities.
Shopping Zone
Editors Choice
Not all good things come from Amazon. The following are my choices of goodies that I have come across or in which I have had some involvement. If you want to add anything please email me (editor(at)shared-care.com) with details
| Surprisingly Gluten Free | Gluten free cookbook; lots of good recipes |
| Surprisingly Gluten Free | |
| Dr Michaels New Horizons | Self help tapes from No Panic |
| No Panic | |
| Lumie Sunlamp | Sunlamp for SAD (works for me! (ed)) |
| Lumie | |
| The FISH Plan for Migraine | Free downloadable book about treating migraine |
| The FISH Plan for Migraine | |
| The FISH Plan for Irritable Bowel Syndrome | Free downloadable book about treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome |
| The FISH Plan for IBS | |
| Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet | Necessary dietary reading for everyone |
| Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet | |
