What causes the sleep problems? Here are the top 4 culprits:
1. Your racing brain
Danielle Liss, 34, a Las Vegas lawyer and fibromyalgia sufferer, says she frequently battles insomnia.
The reason?
Alpha waves were disrupting her sleep, according to a test in which Liss's heart rate, breathing, leg movements and brain waves were monitored.
"It's like trying to sleep after two or three cups of coffee," says Jacob Teitelbaum, M.D., a fibromyalgia expert and author of From Fatigued to Fantastic[1] (Avery).
That's because fibromyalgia sufferers have an alpha wave pattern typically seen in awake people, according to Harvey Moldofsky, M.D., head of the Sleep Disorders Clinic of the Centers for Sleep in Chronobiology in Toronto.
The pattern, called alpha intrusions or alpha abnormality, prevents them from sinking into the deep sleep stages needed to feel refreshed.
The problem starts in the autonomic nervous system, which controls your body's involuntary processes such as breathing, heart rate and digestion, with help from the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS).
For fibromyalgia sufferers, "the SNS is in overdrive and often stays dominant, even during sleep," Dr. Teitelbaum says.
References
- ^ From Fatigued to Fantastic (www.amazon.com)
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