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Hunt Regional Healthcare’s sleep disorder clinic uses various treatments to deal with sleep problems. Unlike a typical sleep lab, we offer easy and convenient at-home testing. The results of your sleep study will be read by a pulmonologist, a physician specializing in diagnosing and treating respiratory disorders.

It’s important that you find out whether you have a condition affecting the quality of your sleep. Insufficient sleep is linked to several diseases, including diabetes, obesity, depression, and cardiovascular disease.

From restless leg syndrome and night terrors to insomnia and Sleep Apnea, whatever is keeping you from getting the restorative sleep you truly need can be detected, diagnosed, and treated. Ask your doctor if a home sleep test would work for you. Call us at 903.408.1840 for more information.

Symptoms of a Sleep Disorder

  • Difficulty falling asleep
  • Morning headaches
  • Awakening in the night
  • Excessive daytime sleepiness
  • Loud snoring
  • Depressed mood
  • Episodes of stopped breathing
  • Anxiety
  • Sleep walking
  • Apathy
  • Lower leg movements during sleep
  • Hypertension

Common Sleep Disorders

Insomnia is an inability to fall or stay asleep, preventing normal daytime functioning. It can interfere with concentrating, making decisions, and solving problems.

It is a response to temporary stress, excitement, or an unfamiliar environment (an extra-hard bed in a hotel room, for example). It lasts for one to several nights. Sleep returns to normal after the triggering event or situation is resolved.

Occurs during more extended periods of stress at home or work and can last several weeks.

It is a poor sleep pattern every night (or most nights). It interferes with daytime activities because sufferers are often too tired to perform well on the job or relate well to other people.

OSA is the most serious sleep disorder. During sleep, the upper airway becomes obstructed, causing the sleeper to stop breathing for as long as 90 seconds. Periods of apnea may occur several hundred times per night. OSA is the most common medical cause of sleepiness during the day, especially in men, who are more often affected by the disorder than women.

Obstructive Sleep Apnea sufferers may be identified by loud, chronic snoring, gasping during sleep, waking up frequently, daytime fatigue, obesity, high blood pressure, morning headaches, and daytime sleepiness. Sleep apnea surgery may be recommended depending on the severity of a person’s OSA.

Patients with Restless Legs Syndrome or Periodic Limb Movements report rhythmic jerking of the legs or feet, pain, or an uncomfortable sensation that makes them want to move their legs. This restlessness interferes with normal sleep.

A reasonably rare sleep disorder, narcolepsy results in muscular weakness when angry or laughing, sleep paralysis, and daytime sleepiness. Symptoms can appear suddenly or develop slowly over a long period.

Sleep apnea can be caused by a person’s physical structure or medical conditions. These include obesity, large tonsils, endocrine disorders, neuromuscular disorders, heart or kidney failure, specific genetic syndromes, and premature birth.

Helpful Sleep Habits

  • Go to bed at the same time and get up at the same times every day - even on weekends and holidays
  • Keep your bedroom quiet, dark, comfortable, and cool
  • Use your bed only for sleeping, not for watching TV, working, or listening to music
  • Move computers, televisions, and other electronics out of your bedroom
  • Avoid large or heavy meals close to bedtime

Locations

  • Hunt Regional Center Greenville
    Hunt Regional Medical Center Greenville
    • 4215 Joe Ramsey Blvd, Greenville, TX 75401
    • 903.408.5000