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Excessive daytime sleepiness
Excessive daytime sleepiness is a clinical finding in which a person regularly experiences significant fatigue and a desire to sleep during the day. This can be due to sleep problems, breathing problems at night, depression, cancer, anemia, or hypothyroidism.
Dr. Keegan Duchicela reviewed this
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What can cause excessive daytime sleepiness?
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What illnesses present with excessive daytime sleepiness?
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How can I get help if I have excessive daytime sleepiness?
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A 33-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: Excessive daytime sleepiness?
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A 32-year old asked:
Is there an underlying problem associated with excessive daytime sleepiness?
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A 43-year old male asked:
Excessive daytime sleepiness and althemers?
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A 22-year old male asked:
Is there a link between fibromyalgia and excessive daytime sleepiness?
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A 23-year old female asked:
Are there any over-the-counter medications that can help with excessive daytime sleepiness?
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A 40-year old female asked:
Dxd w/ excessive daytime sleepiness yrs. Back besides meds how can I combat? Have had my meds in yrs. It gets really bad at times.
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A 40-year old asked:
Can Effexor (venlafaxine) cause excessive daytime sleepiness?
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A 25-year old male asked:
Ever since i can remember I have experienced excessive daytime sleepiness...Could I have some form of narcolepsy?
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A 57-year old asked:
If someone is diagnosis as having eds, i.E. "excessive daytime sleepiness", what would make simple touch seem aggrrevating?
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Are there alternative therapies for excessive daytime sleepiness?
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A 29-year old asked:
Are there any natural remedies to help with excessive daytime sleepiness?
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A 25-year old male asked:
Could a sleeping disorder explain why I've had excessive daytime sleepiness most my life? Which disorder could it be? How r sleeping disorders treated
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A 42-year old asked:
Can you tell me natural remedies for excessive daytime sleepiness or narcolepsy?
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A 21-year old male asked:
Bupro+sertra caused excessive daytime sleepiness, >10mon, Prozac (fluoxetine) worse, fully interacted with my life.Please guide me.Grateful.
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A 35-year old male asked:
How severe is my osa. Excessive daytime sleepiness. No. Of resp.Event from psg is 86. Min. 02 satu. 79%. Total sleep time 394min. Pressure 7.
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A male asked:
Potential caus of excessive daytime sleepiness and blurry vision. Been going on for a month. Some days better some worse. doctor didnt find a problem.
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A 29-year old male asked:
What can be reason of my mildly elevated metanephrines and normetanephrines. I have excessive daytime sleepiness, tiredness. All other labs normal. Can Sleep apnea cause such stress response to raise these levels?
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A 28-year old male asked:
Can degenerative disc disease, facet joint syndrome, and/or scapulothoracic bursitis cause excessive sleepiness and daytime drowsiness?
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A 22-year old male asked:
I am taking antidepressants since 15years I feel excessive sleepiness at daytime and lethargy please suggest treatment ( any herbal medicine)?
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A 18-year old female asked:
Can I have sleep apnea if I dont snore? Can sleep apnea appear out of nowhere? Ive never experienced exsessive daytime sleepiness, headaches and now i do everyday. I also have allergic rhinitis and I might have deviated septum (because of genetics)
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A 18-year old female asked:
I feel exsessive daytime sleepiness even though I get enough sleep (this lasts for2months). I also experience headaches, brain fog. Ive done many blood tests, they all turned out negative. Can my dust mites allergy and VitD deficiency be the reason?
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A 39-year old asked:
Could bruxism cause daytime sleepiness?
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A 30-year old asked:
How do I overcome sleepiness in the daytime?
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A 21-year old female asked:
I've been having strong headaches & daytime sleepiness. I've been going to bed early and it's still hard to wake up the next day. It's not normal.
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A 26-year old male asked:
In narcolepsy, does daytime sleepiness happen randomly during the day, or it has a periodical time of onset (for example around 3:00 pm every day)?
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A 36-year old male asked:
I am under CPAP machine. MY AHI is 0.8. I still feel daytime sleepy and last night I woke up and checked my oxygen and it was in the range of 70. What am I doing wrong?
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A 33-year old asked:
How to prevent daytime sleepiness without taking in too much caffeine?
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