Night sweats/Jerking during night
Question:
I posted a while back that I’ve been having problems with night sweats during the night. I’ll just recap: I sweat a fair bit during the night, enough to wake me up 2 or 3 times a night. It isn’t excessive though, and I always just fall right back to sleep when I get up. These sweats are accompanied by very vivid dreams. I’m a fairly fit 18 year old male, not overweight by any description. I don’t snore. However, my girlfriend recently told me I tend to jerk around a bit in my sleep. I find I need quite a lot of sleep, probably 10 hours. It’s not really affecting my life during the day (I don’t think..). Does this all add up to sleep apnea?
Response:
On Sat, 05 Jan 2002 15:06:17 GMT, "joey" <hardn…@hotmail.com> wrote: >I posted a while back that I’ve been having problems with night sweats >during the night. I’ll just recap: I sweat a fair bit during the night, >enough to wake me up 2 or 3 times a night. >I’m a fairly fit 18 year old male, not overweight by any description. I >don’t snore. However, my girlfriend recently told me I tend to jerk >around a bit in my sleep. >I find I need quite a lot of sleep, probably 10 hours.
Teenagers (18-year-olds qualify) not infrequently need a LOT of sleep. >Does this all add up to sleep apnea?
With the jerking going on… it sounds more like a periodic limb movement disorder.
Response:
"joey" <hardn…@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:JDEZ7.36075$wD1.217129@news-server.bigpond.net.au… > I posted a while back that I’ve been having problems with night sweats > during the night. I’ll just recap: I sweat a fair bit during the night, > enough to wake me up 2 or 3 times a night. It isn’t excessive though, and I > always just fall right back to sleep when I get up. These sweats are > accompanied by very vivid dreams. I’m a fairly fit 18 year old male, not > overweight by any description. I don’t snore. However, my girlfriend > recently told me . I find I need > quite a lot of sleep, probably 10 hours. It’s not really affecting my life > during the day (I don’t think..). Does this all add up to sleep apnea?
<I tend to jerk around a bit in my sleep> This has the same effects as Sleep Apnea as you are waking all the time and not getting proper sleep http://sleepdisorders.about.com/cs/restlesslegs/ http://sleepdisorders.about.com/cs/sweats/ http://sleepdisorders.about.com/cs/sleepdeprivation/ these might help
Response:
"joey" <hardn…@hotmail.com> wrote: >I posted a while back that I’ve been having problems with night sweats >during the night. I’ll just recap: I sweat a fair bit during the night, >enough to wake me up 2 or 3 times a night. It isn’t excessive though, and I >always just fall right back to sleep when I get up. These sweats are >accompanied by very vivid dreams.
That used to happen to me before I went on CPAP. I think that I was getting into deep sleep, where dreaming happens, and my airway would shut down. The work required to draw a breath through a collapsed airway would account for the sweating. > I’m a fairly fit 18 year old male, not >overweight by any description. I don’t snore. However, my girlfriend >recently told me I tend to jerk around a bit in my sleep. I find I need >quite a lot of sleep, probably 10 hours. It’s not really affecting my life >during the day (I don’t think..). Does this all add up to sleep apnea?
It sure could. According to my wife, I used to jerk hard enough to shake the bed when trying to draw a breath. You need an overnight stay in a sleep lab to be certain, but here’s an online test that will get you started. http://www.nationalsleep.com/sleeptest.htm Tom
