Identify The Factors That Cause Hypersomnia To Prevent It!

Hypersomnia is less common than insomnia and it is one-fourth increase of sleep in total sleep time.

There are many factors that can cause hypersomnia.

Hypersomnia characteristics vary from person to person depending on the age, lifestyle and other underlying causes.

Factors that can lead to hypersomnia condition:

• Environmental factors can disturb your sleep and can lead to hypersomnia. Factors such as snoring of your partner, outside noise, uncomfortable mattress, waking up of your baby, heat and cold conditions can disturb your nighttime sleep and increases excessive sleep during daytime.
• Mental condition like anxiety can keep you awake at night and makes you to sleep during daytime. Depression also disturbs your night time sleep.
• Medications such as sleeping pills, antihistamines, and tranquillizers can also disturb your sleeping patterns. Alcohol and caffeinated drinks also disturb your sleep.
• Overtime or long working hours at office can disturb your sleep patterns. Teenagers stay until early morning hours during weekends which make their sleep patterns disturbed.
• Medical conditions like gastro esophageal reflux disease, hypothyroidism, nocturnal asthma and chronic pain can disturb your sleep during night time and increases daytime sleepiness.
• Sleep disorders such as sleep apnea, sleep walking, restless leg syndrome, insomnia and narcolepsy [FAQ about Narcolepsy] can cause excessive daytime sleepiness.
• Sleep apnea stops your breathing during sleep, which makes you to wake up in the middle of the night to gasp for breathe. This happens hundreds of times causing disturbance to sleep and excessive sleepiness during daytime.
• Sleep walking is an abnormal behavior, which makes you to wake up in the middle of the night and walk around while you are still asleep.
• Itching sensation and irritation in the legs can lead to restless leg syndrome (RLS). If you have RLS, you feel the urge to move legs and therefore you wake up during night.
• Sometimes, hypersomnia indicates a serious disorder such as encephalitis, brain tumor, meningitis, heart or lung disorder and liver failure.

Modafinil for hypersomnia:

Modafinil is a drug which keeps you awake. Modafinil boosts the responses of alpha-1 receptors in the brain to nor-adrenalines, which help to strengthen the memory and keep you alert and energized.

Modafinil is approved for hypersomnia as well as other sleep disorders like sleep apnea, excessive sleepiness and shift work sleep disorder.

Modafinil drug has minimum to no side effects. Other sleep drugs have side effects like palpitations, irritability, agitation and euphoria. The effect of modafinil lasts for 15 hours where as other sleep drugs need to be taken thrice daily.

Taking the sleep drugs thrice daily increases you to expose to chemical ingredients and there by increases the risk of developing other illnesses.

Before taking the modafinil, you have to consult the doctor and discuss with him/her. Take the drug when your doctor prescribes for you to treat hypersomnia.