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Sleep Apnea Symptoms
January 22, 2008 |
The symptoms of conditions like sleep apnea can greatly interfere with your daily
life. “You’re sleepy all day long. You would fall asleep watching television. You
would doze off reading a book and if it’s bad enough you would fall asleep at work,”
says Dr. Razak Dosani, a board certified sleep doctor
with Lee Memorial
Health System. While those sleepy symptoms may seem significant, many people choose to ignore them.
Dr. Dosani has seen that denial first hand. He says, “The patients who feel tired,
sleepy and lazy, in society it’s considered the sign of a loser or a sign of somebody
who is lazy and has no motivation. Not too many patients or people would like to
admit that.” In fact most sleep specialists
say that it’s usually another person
who convinces a patient with a sleep disorder that there is a problem and it should
be treated by a doctor. “Frequently we see that in our practice that it is a spouse
who insists there is a problem and frequently the patient will deny that there is
a problem most of the time and says I’m awake. The spouse says no he’s not he falls
asleep talking to me,” says Dr.Dosani. Talk with your physician if you’re feeling
tired or falling asleep at inopportune times. They can refer you to a sleep specialist
who will likely be able to treat your condition successfully. “With the treatment
you can relieve most of the symptoms if not all and it can change your life to again
an active lifestyle,” says Dr.Dosani. For more on local sleep specialists and clinics
you can log onto www.leememorial.org. Research shows that every year about 40 million
cases of sleep disorders go undiagnosed in America. |
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