Despite not sleeping properly for about 60 hours, their bodies rapidly recovered following a single night's sleep. This clearly demonstrates that the body can adapt and readily recover over short periods of sleep disruption. This may also be the case for some of the many sleep disorders that are now recognized by sleep specialists. This disrupts the sleep pattern and results in excessive daytime sleepiness. When the patients are treated their sleep pattern returns to close to normal and their daytime sleepiness decreases.
People often associate and confuse sleep apnoea with snoring.
They both have the problem of noise and disturb other people. However sleep apnoea is more of a medical problem than snoring is, and patients need to be assessed correctly before any treatment. Whatever the cause of disrupted sleep, it can have a knock-on effect. Sleep is needed by the body to recover at the end of each day. Excessive sleepiness and sleep disruption is not good for the individual or for those around them .