How To Know If You Have A Sleep Disorder

How do you know if you have a sleep disorder?

The diagnosis of a sleep disorder involves several steps. In the first instance a doctor would do a full assessment including asking several questionnaire-based questions and doing a questionnaire-based assessment on symptoms of sleep disorder. In the second instance one will need to have a sleep study, this is usually done in hospital and sleep study is polysonography, measures a variety of parameters including brain waves, eye movement, air flow, oxygen and heart rate overnight and muscle movement. By using all this data gathered we're able to analyse a person's sleep, stage their sleep in other words, when they sleep in the different stages of sleep and find out whether they have any breathing problems in their sleep, movement disorders or neurological problems in their sleep.