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People suffering from hypersomnia usually oversleep. Usually, hypersomnia is seen in teenagers and young adults between twenty to thirty years of age. Hypersomniacs sleep a lot during daytime and a lot during night time too. They fall asleep at the oddest moments during work, meal times, and even in the middle of a conversation.This disorder should not be confused with a short midday nap that most people take.
Hypersomnia is associated with another dangerous sleeping disorder called narcolepsy. Narcoleptics could very well fall asleep while driving or cooking. What's more, they aren't even aware that they have fallen alseep. Many time, hypersomniacs and narcoleptics fall asleep unaware to themselves, and on waking, resume their work from the point where it was interrupted.
Sleeping during the daytime won't help the condition as the patient can sleep longer than he or she intends to. Symptoms of hypersomnia include decreased level of energy, fatigue, restlessness, disorientation, slow thinking, loss of appetite, slow speech, memory problems, and hallucinations.
People suffering from hypersomnia realize that they are slowly losing their ability to work in normal life situations related to family, society, career, and so on.
Causes of Hypersomnia
The causes for this disorder is different in different individuals. At the root of hypersomnia lie disorders such as nacrolepsy or sleep apnea. Dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system follows if the patient is a drug addict or an alcoholic.
Rarely, hypersomnia is caused by physical problems such as traumas, an injured nervous system, or tumors. In some cases, hypersomnia is due to medication or withdrawal from a drug or many drugs. Medical problems such as depression, epilepsy, encephalitis, obesity, as well as multiple sclerosis can also lead to hypersomnia. In many cases of hypersomnia, the cause lies in the genes or hereditory factors.
If you want to know more about this disorder, you can find it on the website of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes. Here, you will get a detailed, clinical description of this disorder. However, the information you get on any website is no substitute for the valuable information your family doctor can give you. While it is good to keep yourself informed, you have to visit a doctor for a correct diagnosis of your condition.
Most of the time, people who don't see a doctor for help with these problems misdiagnose their own condition. For instance, severaly obese people who struggle to lose a few pounds would benefit greatly if they simply visit a doctor. A doctor will be able to inform them that sleep deprivation can lead to a rise in the metabolic rate of the body, which can, in turn, create excessive hunger in obese people who are making futile attempts to shed pounds.
Many obese people eat more than they require because they sleep long hours and wake up feeling hungry, instead of sleeping the customary eight hours and leading a normal life. This is one of the reasons why obsese people don't lose weight despite their best attempts; they don't train their bodies to sleep normally and eat healthy.
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