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A member asked:
Can mild sleep apnea cause a person to be so tired and cause a person to fall asleep sitting doing nothing or working at my computer?
6 doctors weighed in across 5 answers
Probably not so mild: Yes, a sleep disorder can cause somnolence during the day and a feeling of tiredness. Check with the neurologist or pulmonologist who conducted the sleep study and find out what your oxygen saturation was during the study. If below 85%, that is a serious sleep disorder. Below 90% can also lead to less oxygen supply to the brain and to the heart.
Answered 8/29/2015
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Sleep apnea: Yes , sleep apnea can cause a person to fall asleep.
Answered 2/7/2015
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Rarely possible: Usually these are the symptoms of severe sleep apnea, narcolepsy would cause the symptoms of excessive drowsiness , and falling sleep in all types of situations. Other causes of fatigue needs to be ruled out also, including : thyroid disease, liver disease , depression.
Answered 2/7/2015
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Sure.: Those are typical symptoms of sleep apnea.
Answered 10/4/2016
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Yes: Mild obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) can cause severe daytime sleepiness, we are talking about the number of stop breathing an hour to diagnose the severity of OSA, but in reality the most important beside the stopped breathing number is the arousals numbers and fragmented sleep during the snoring without stop breathing in addition to the stop breathing.
Answered 3/31/2015
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