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How Can You Improve Your Quality of Life?
If you are feeling tired and run down, have you considered your might not be sleeping at night? Do you justify your tiredness to getting older or to a hectic lifestyle?
The St. Mary's Medical Center Sleep Clinic is here to help you get a good night's sleep, so you can have a more active and fulfilling life.
Our Sleep Lab
Our sleep lab is state of the art and we have professional technicians to help you sleep soundly through the night. We are located at the Courtyard by Marriott at 1500 NE Coronado Drive in Blue Springs. The hotel setting allows our patients to relax and enjoy the facilities at the hotel, before and after their study. The Courtyard offers our patients an indoor swimming pool, whirlpool, workout facility, breakfast facility and more.
Signs You May Need a Sleep Study:
- Snoring
- Told by others that breathing stops while you sleep
- Awaken suddenly gasping for a breath
- Sleep is restless and disturbed
- Fear of not being able to go back to sleep after waking up
- Have family members with sleep problems (i.e. parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters…)
- Overweight
- Sweat while sleeping
- Wake up with headaches
- Increased irritability
- Feel fatigued
- Excessively sleepy during the daytime
- Accidentally fall asleep at inopportune times (i.e. driving, working at desk, watching TV, in conversations with other people)
- Difficulty with sexual functioning
Other Sleep Problems Which Can Occur:
- Periodic Leg Movements- legs kicking at night disrupting sleep
- Narcolepsy- falls asleep without warning; vivid dreaming, strong emotions associated with sudden weakness
- RBD (REM Behavior Disorder)- acting out dreams
- Seizures
- Insomnia
For more information, call 816-655-5394.
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