Talk:Hypersomnia

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Hypersomnia is identified as a symptom of bipolar depression more so than in people with unipolar depression.

It might be helpful to add that is has been proposed by some experts that hypersomnia can be a consequence of having mono. They have found several instances of patients coming to the sleep clinic at Riley Hospital in Indianapolis, IN who were afflicted with idiopathic hypersomnia and their symptoms had started after having mono. Often their symptoms lasted several years; some, however, have remained hypersomniacs. ---Blizpix 02:41, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

If you can find a reference, it would probably be fine to add it. --Arcadian 15:01, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

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i "suffer hyprersomnia"- i go to bed at 01.00am and struggle to get up at 13.00 - some 12hrs later, however once im up i have NEVER taken any naps or further sleep - does that clinically qualify me as a hypersomniac? i have been suffering this for nearly 20 years (and has contributed to a substantial amount of unemployment)and it is part self -inflicted/psychological and i believe, possibly physiological(circadian rhythm?)(not depression though -which seems to be the default choice of the medical world)) or idiopathic either . Recently my GP gave me amitripyline- which i am not keen on as they have a too early knock out effect, take them later and the drowsiness continues during the following day . Also iam anything but overweight as by BMI is 17 t ali 10/02/06

I have a similar thing to the person above, though I've only been affected a few years (it started in late adolescence, about 16), occasionally I will just sleep for at least 12 hours irrelevant of what time I went to bed. Also I am not overweight, my BMI is 19. Although I feel no depression, I can feel very depressed after having slept so long, as obviously it completely messes up my life. I have an alarm and everything and I set it off but it has no effect, I just subconsciously switch it off and go back to sleep. I need a bed which detects my presence on it and then subsequently sets off an alarm at a certain time that only ceases when my presence becomes undetected. I see no way for my unconscious mind to get round that. n simm 18/01/07

wikipedia isnt a doctor. stop trying to offend random people. 87.69.89.208 19:42, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
i was not offending random people -i was exercising my right to self defence from someone abusing me. I was the victim .The net itself isn't a doctor but loads still go to seek advice

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-i've been looking up sleeping disorders recently to try and find one that qualifies to one such as this, beacause just recently i've started to notice that i sleep alot more than other people. For instance what the others have mentioned earlier about sleeping 10-12 hours strait and when i wake up i also subcontiosly turn off my alarm clock its very irritating, to the user above that has the same problem, try setting your alarm to an 1-2 hours before your supposed to get up. This ushally helps me, because after about an hour and a half of shutting off my alarm every five minutes i start to wake up. i have been diagnosed with depresion, but i think people try to write that off as a cause for this disorder. I dont have any problems with obesity...and ever since i was in second grade people always thought that something was wrong with me or i didnt get enough sleep because i always look so tired, i never though much of it before; i had always wrote it off as "allergys" before. It really sucks, wanting to sleep all the time..one of the main reasons being that i miss alot of my school work for sleep, and sometimes, i come home and sleep until the next morning. i dont take daytime naps either, if i sleep. i sleep for a long time and i dont wake up in the middle unless someone trys really hard to do so. Im fifteen years old, and if there is such a bed that makes the alarm go off until you get out of it, i would probably (without Thinking) get off of the bed and sleep on the floor...good idea though. My best friend is an insomniac that suffers from night terror, practically the opposite of me; sleepovers can get wierd...oh and by the way. i drink caffine all the time, i never thought it would have an effect my sleep and personally i dont think it does at all, i drink it for the very reason of sleepyness, and caffine doesent do much for me anyways, unlike other people, i can drink large quantities of caffine and still sleep, be tired or drowsy (which ive done before)

       -Allen-

[edit] Famous people

This is very dangerous to list people who have hypersomia without any citations. Please find citations where it states that these indivdiuals have it, otherwise we need to be cautious and careful not to libel anybody. Hbdragon88 07:26, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] hypersomnolence ?

I don't think oversleeping should be redirected here at all. Find the specific item requested, not declare the disease from one symptom. Added by anon, unsigned.

[edit] hypersomnia, hypersomnolence, excesive daytime sleepiness

These are three different entities unfortunately mixed up as one in the present article. Jclerman 11:47, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] From MeSH D006970

Disorders characterized by hypersomnolence during normal waking hours that may impair cognitive functioning. Subtypes include primary hypersomnia disorders (e.g., IDIOPATHIC HYPERSOMNOLENCE; NARCOLEPSY; and KLEINE-LEVIN SYNDROME) and secondary hypersomnia disorders where excessive somnolence can be attributed to a known cause (e.g., drug affect, MENTAL DISORDERS, and SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME). (From J Neurol Sci 1998 Jan 8;153(2):192-202; Thorpy, Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine, 2nd ed, p320) Jclerman 11:58, 30 August 2007 (UTC)