Sleepiness is hard to endure during the day even if you sleep well at night. Hypersomnia can be a number of types, including narcolepsy, sporadic hypersomnia, and sleep deprivation syndrome. It explains in detail about the characteristics of the symptoms of sporadic hypersomnia, checkpoints, and treatments by improving medicines and sleep habits.
Epidemic hypersomnia… Symptoms of sporadic hypersomnia, treatment.
Epidemic hypersomnia began in 1957 when Dr. Roth of Czechoslovakia announced it as an hypersomnia that can be distinguished from narcolepsy.
Narcolepsy and sporadic hypersomnia are characterized by a sudden sleep attack during the day. In narcolepsy, the sleep seizure time is short and I feel refreshed when I wake up.
On the other hand, a sleep attack lasts for more than an hour, sometimes 3 to 4 hours, and it is not good to wake up. Also, sleep seizures in narcolepsy are mainly REM sleep, but nonREM sleep, which is deeper sleep, accounts for a lot of sporadic hypersomnia.
If you hold back your sleepiness during the day, you will be absent-minded and behave in an orderly manner. It is called ‘autonomous disorder’, and it is similar to the behavior when you are asleep.
Epidemic hypersomnia can take up to 8 hours of sleep at night, but can last more than 10 hours. And it’s also characterized by a very bad morning wake-up. It is hard to wake up even if the loud alarm is set, and it can cause inconvenience to family and neighbors.
Even after waking up, it is called “sleep drunkenness” because it continues to feel uncomfortable and makes you look like a drunk. This can be seen in about half of patients with sporadic hypersomnia.
An autonomic nervous system is often impaired. Headaches, orthostatic hypotension, dizziness, coldness in the hands and feet, and Rayno symptoms (symptoms that make your fingers white due to cold or stress). However, these symptoms are also seen in narcolepsy at a similar rate.
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