• Sleeping Stages and Need
• Airway Pressure Advantages
• Sleep Apnea Diagnosing
• Sleep Apnea Causes & treatment
• Sleep Apnea Treatment
• Causes of Excessive Sleepiness
• Child Settling Problems
• Sleep Disorders
• Sleep Disturbances
• Dreams Psychology
• What Happens During Sleep
• Excessive Sleepiness Trouble Shooting
• Common Factors Producing Insomnia
• Family Bed-Sleeping with Baby
• Teach Child Good Sleep Habits
• Know about How Babies Sleep
• How Long to Sleep and Need
• Idiopathic Hypersomnia Reasons
• Insomnia Causes
• Insomnia Treatment
• Insomnia Definition and Cause
• International Health Problem
• Medications Helps Child Sleep Better
• Medications Improves Sleep Cycle
• Hard to Get up in the Morning
• First Move Against Insomnia
• Narcolepsy Sleep Attacks
• How Narcolepsy is Diagnosed
• Know About Night Waking
• Nightmares & Terrors
• Nightmares to Frightened
• Nocturnal Myoclonus Movement
• Restore Normal Breathing During Sleep
• Oral Appliances Treatment Options
• Overcome Common Aging Sleep Problems
• Parasomnia Exam and Tests
• Pre-School Children Problem
• Factors Reducing Treatments Effects
• Restless Legs Syndrome
• School Age Children Sleep Problems
• Sleep Problems for Elders
• Sleep and Aging Problems
• Relief Social Stress by Insomnia
• Sleep Disorder FAQ
• Sleeping Related Glossary

Seeking Medical Treatment

If you are experiencing sleepiness during the day, loud snoring or pauses in breathing during sleep or any other sleeping difficulties, make an appointment to discuss these problems with your doctor. Sleep disorders are treatable. Your doctor can evaluate your sleep problem and may refer you to a sleep specialist who has special training in sleep medicine. Many of these specialists work at sleep centers where overnight sleep studies can help determine whether you have a sleep disorder.

Sleeping Arrangements

Many alternatives are available for bedding for people with Huntington's disease. When the current bed becomes unsuitable, look to see what is wrong from the patient's perspective. If they are falling out of bed because of their chorea, look at hammocks or a floor bed. If clumsiness and trouble with balance is a problem, then a trapeze bar added to the bed frame, or a bed at the same height as a chair can be used to ease transfers. Remember to look for safe alternatives that can preserve the persons ability to move and that does not isolate them from their environment.

Hammocks

In Venezuela most everybody sleeps in a hammock, including those in the large Huntington's disease kindred's in the highlands. These are not the North American back yard hammocks that are so hard to sit in, but hammocks that completely enclose the person. Two, seven foot long by seven foot wide 100% cotton flat weave hammocks are what you should try to get. They will need to be secured to support beams by boat hooks. You will need a structural engineer or builder to help find the posts to secure the hooks to. Most nursing homes of Veteran's Administration hospitals (VA) will give you one chance to get it right.

You need two because one is always in the laundry to remove pee, poop and food. Your best bet is to hang the hammock out to dry; in fact they do not fit or last long in home dryers.

Hammocks are available through non-profit cottage industry catalogs that sell products from cooperatives in Central and South America. One excellent source, used by many in the Huntington's disease community is: Pueblo-to-People, ask for a buyer to special order these hammocks, because the buyers know which ladies at which cooperatives are still working, as the hammocks are no longer a regular item.

Sleep on It

Got a problem? Need to come up with a creative idea for work or a plot for your novel? Think it over, then go to bed and sleep on it. It works. Ask David Somers, a professor of psychology at Boston University. His work leads him into exploring how the brain works. Somers read the book, "A Treasure's Trove" and began focusing on finding the solution.