Feb 19 2010

Sleep Paralysis In Fibromyalgia Patients

Category: Fibromyalgia & Other Health Articles — admin @ 5:00 am

The Causes Of Sleep Paralysis

Many times when fibromyalgia are exhausted not sleeping, and taking pain pills or melatonin they can experience what is know as sleep paralysis. This article is slanted toward every day people, but you might gain some benefit. I have found that by resting during the day, and not relying on pain medication when you are totally exhausted can help stop the frightening dreams that make sleeping harrowing night or day.

Is sleep paralysis a problem for you? If you are wondering whether something can be done about it then the answer is yes. Just go through the following article and get to know the facts.

If you sometimes find that you are paralyzed during sleep and you cannot move then you are suffering from sleep paralysis. Everyone experiences sleep paralysis at some stage in their life. In other people however these episodes happen more often and can be quite scary. Sleep paralysis will manifest itself under varied conditions and it can be dealt with it.

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The underlying factor of sleep paralysis is that of partial consciousness. The attacks occur when dreaming you are suddenly woken from your sleep and your brain responds much faster than your body. You then experience the sensation that the dream you were having is real. When you try and respond to this then your body cannot even move a single muscle.

This is because the process of coming out of sleep was never meant to be a sudden event but a gradual one. If something suddenly wakes you up whilst you are having a dream then paralysis is likely to set in. Being paralyzed during sleep is the body’s way of protecting you. The body is trying to prevent you from reacting to something that is not there.

Most people to panic and try to even scream and they find that they cannot even make a single sound. What disturbs me the most though is that these so called hallucinations seem so real at the time they occur. Having experienced one too many times I decided to learn more about it.

I have encountered many suggested solutions and techniques to this problem. Some methods are as simple as avoidance techniques of known causes, to meditation and yoga. If you are experiencing episodes where by you become paralyzed during sleep solutions are always there. It is quite possible to sleep and rest peacefully at night.