Treating Sleep Panic Attacks

It may only be a simple worry from the day that canthey are tied to sleep apnea syndrome; sleep apnea
hinder your sleep. It is bad enough that hardships areaffects your blood pressure and heart more than
falling on families every day; these are the types ofsleep panic attacks. One of the theories is that your
things that can keep us starring at the walls forbody's carbon dioxide levels rise so much that it sets
hours at night. Ten percent of people are plaguedoff a false suffocation alarm. They have not been
with sleep panic attacks during the night. Theable to fully prove what in fact are the causes of
symptoms mock those of daytime panic attacks:sleep apnea or sleep panic attacks.
sweating, racing heart and shortness of breath. NotThe only thing that is really known about sleep panic
being able to sleep can just add fuel to the fire whenattacks is that they happen before the REM stage of
it comes to panic attacks. Fear of the unknown issleep and not during. This is because REM stage of
one of the worst and most common symptoms ofsleep is the dreaming stage so the fact is that
panic attacks.dreams do not cause panic attacks. It is possible,
Insomnia is a very painstaking thing to have to gohowever, that when you are in the transition of
through; twenty-five percent of people suffer everygoing from one stage of sleep to the next that you
day from insomnia. If your body becomes sleepcan have an attack or if too much carbon dioxide is
deprived this also will affect how your mind workstaken in due to hyperventilation. With this condition it
and how your emotions are. If you are unable to getis possible that you develop a fear of sleeping all
regular sleep you will develop sleep panic attacks.together and begin to show signs of insomnia.
More than half of people who suffer with panicJust based on these problems alone you should sit
attacks also suffer at night. It is a never ending circlewith your doctor and figure out a plan to cure your
that is hard to break.issues before they get worse. There may be
When you are going through the night having sleepproblems that run deeper and the doctor needs to
panic attacks it may be daily stress, drugs, alcohol orevaluate you to make sure of the causes, before
depression that can trigger them. They can causebegining treatment. Medications and therapy work
you to have a racing heart, trouble breathing,well with one another. Lack of sleep can lead to a
sweating and feel fear. It is not known why thenumber of problems and should be treated right
attacks happen at night but researchers feel thataway. Talk to your doctor- that is why he is there.