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What Causes Daytime Sleepiness When Suffering From Hypertension?
Hi, I am 54 years old, and I have hypertension. Now a days, I am feeling too much sleep during my office hours, driving, waiting signal on Red light. My normal sleeping time is 11:00 pm to 5:45 pm. Would you help me Doctor in Jeddah and or medicines and medical name of this problem.
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are you obese and snore at night. that could be the cause. we call it medically osa, obstructive sleep apnea. where in because of disturbed sleep at night, you are not fresh when you wake up and tend to fall asleep very quickly during anytime in day. treatment depends on severety and you need to get sleep studies to have diagnosis, access severity and plan treatment
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