Sleep Disorder Symptoms
Do you wake frequently at night or experience difficulty in falling asleep? Do not worry; this is nothing but a sign of sleep disorder. Sleep disorder itself is one of the common symptoms of menopause, but yet encompasses a myriad of symptoms that are detected by doctors for diagnosis. In reality, the symptoms of sleep disorders are difficult to tackle. Oftentimes, they hit you at night leaving a deep impact on your body, mind, and life while you are awake. The probability of sleep disorders is always high with increasing age. However, in women, it can be mainly due to menopause that is triggered because of the changing hormone levels accompanied by nighttime disturbances brought by other menopausal symptoms like night sweats.
During the transition period of menopause, many women cannot have enough amount of sleep because of sleep disorders. If this is true, then such women suffer from increased anxiety, a weakened immune system, and deteriorating pre-existing medical conditions.
Such effects also put their business or personal relationships into tension and lead to emotional disturbances. All this happens just due to incomplete sleep because of waking up frequently at night leading to tiredness and lack of concentration during the day. Further, if enough sleep is not obtained, it also affects the strength of immune system making it weaker.
But no matter how severe the symptom might be, it is luckily possible to cure sleep disorders and again have a peaceful sleep as usual, that is seven to eight hours of uninterrupted sleep at night.
- The SymptomsWhile undergoing the transition of menopause, a woman might experience any or a combination of the four types of sleep disorders - insomnia, sleep apnea, snoring, narcolepsy, and restless leg syndrome. The sleep disorder symptoms can be detected to identify these types. But, do also note that certain warning signs are actually common. Listed below are the common sleep disorder symptoms that can help you in determining whether you are suffering from sleep disorders.
- Taking over half an hour to fall asleep (insomnia)
- Getting up several times in the middle of night (insomnia)
- Loss of breath temporarily (sleep apnea)
- Snoring loudly, choking, and wheezing (snoring)
- Feeling uncontrollably sleepy during the day (narcolepsy)
- Unusual sensation in legs (restless leg syndrome)
- Having the unintentional habit of walking during sleep
- Talking in sleep
- Experiencing something like paralysis upon awakening
- Difficulty in concentrating
- Having memory problems
In menopause, these symptoms of sleep disorders are often inter-related to other symptoms of menopause. For an instance, the nocturnal cousin of hot flashes called night sweats can also upset the sleep cycle by making a woman to wake up many times while sleeping at night.
- Effects of Sleep DisordersMany of us are not even able to detect that the sleep disorder symptoms are severe just because of our ignorance. We tend to take them quite lightly because we are really unaware of their effects on our body, mind, and even life. Let me tell you that sleep disorder symptoms, if ignored, can result in depression and anxiety that simply worsen the sleep cycle. This forms a vicious circle of less sleep, fatigue, and other frustrating symptoms of menopause. So, if you allow the symptoms of sleep disorders to continue, you are supporting you own condition of sleep deprivation that will simply grow to create problems, which can become uncontrollable or can invite a potentially dangerous state.
It is also possible that you might unintentionally remain unaware of the existence of sleep disorder. However, you can make out for it as per the symptoms and effects on your sleeping patterns and on daily life too. Listed below are some of its common effects.
- Decline in the ability for learning, speech, and memory
- Lack of concentration on the normal daily course and on complex activities
- Increase in the probability of accidents (car or some machinery)
- Weight gain
- Weak immune system
- Strain on business and/or personal relationships
- Increase in irritability
- Depression/fatigue
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- Sleep DisorderOn an average, a healthy adult requires around seven to eight hours of peaceful sleep each night. However, women in menopause do not obtain this standard amount of sleep due to sleep disorder. In this so-called condition, they experience lack of sleep resulting in low concentration, irritability, and weaker immune system increasing the risks of other diseases and leading to the decreased function during the day.
- Sleep Disorder TreatmentLet’s accept the fact that not all women can sleep for 7 to 8 hours at night, which is the necessary condition for the finest health. Rather than taking it lightly, it is important to realize that this is something to worry about because of its probable dangerous effects. As the sleep disorders continue to prevail during menopause, women might not be able to sleep or might get awakened several times during the night.
- Sleep Disorder CausesHow do you feel the next day morning if you do not sleep enough? Frustrating? Drowsy? Or Uninterested in doing any task? Well, it is usually a combination of these feelings. Imagine if a mother suffers from all of these effects due to improper sleep, then what will happen. Definitely, this will bring a strain on her relationships with family and at work.
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