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The Columbus Community Health Regional Sleep Disorders Center.  Our goal is to help our visitors understand sleep problems, their impact and what can be done about them. This site is a guide for patients, families and friends, health professionals, employers and insurers.
WHY SHOULD EVERYONE LEARN ABOUT SLEEP AND ITS DISORDERS?Sleepiness can indicate a serious illness!
Sleepiness--whether due to sleep apnea, heavy snoring, idiopathic hypersomnia, narcolepsy, insomnia or other sleep-related disorders--threatens the health and economic security of millions of Americans. For example, sleep apnea (diagnosed in up to 10% of men over 40 as well as in women and children) has been associated with heart attacks, heart failure, stroke, hypertension, accelerated development of coronary artery disease, abnormal heart rhythms, convulsions, memory problems, slowed thinking, irritability, mood swings, depression and high speed highway crashes. Insomnia is not a disease. Instead, it's a label. It simply means that sleep is poor and not adequate, without saying why--and the cause sometimes is much more serious than the symptoms of insomnia. Insomnia complaints can even result from such serious problems as repeated failure to breathe, seizures and other disorders...and sleeping pills make some of these underlying causes worse. Abnormal events in sleep can be dangerous
Such frightening occurrences as violent behaviors and the acting out of dreams can reflect neurologic illnesses that can cause serious injuries if left untreated. Arousals with distress--with such symptoms as chest pain, choking, wheezing, shortness of breath and headache can be caused by either primary sleep disorders or worsening of other health problems during sleep. Answers and treatments can usually be provided.
Serious sleep disorders can be treated
What you learn may be crucial to the well-being and security of your family and friends, your company and your personal health. IF YOU OR SOMEONE CLOSE TO YOU ALREADY HAVE SOUGHT HELP FOR SLEEP PROBLEMS ONLY TO BE LEFT WITHOUT RELIEF OF SYMPTOMS AND EFFECTIVE TREATMENT... Click Here Important new treatments for sleep apnea and other
breathing problems during sleep are now available at the
Columbus Community Health Regional Sleep Disorders Center!
Central Sleep Apneas are a major reason why so many patients with obstructive sleep cannot sleep with CPAP or bilevel PAP... and then abandon treatment. Central Sleep Apneas also occur in 50% of heart failure patients and in many with atrial fibrillation. Central Apneas can accelerate deterioration of heart function and render heart failure untreatable. Effective treatment for Central Sleep Apnea just became available.
Click Here Sleep-related Hypoventilation involves failure to breathe deeply enough to maintain adequate blood oxygen levels. It also can result in a potentially dangerous buildup of carbon dioxide in the blood which can blunt the patient's drive to breathe. A new treatment for this problem was just introduced for patients with chronic lung disease (such as COPD), skeletal deformities that restrict breathing (such as kyphoscoliosis), weakness of muscles used for breathing (such as muscular dystrophies and post-polio syndrome) and severe obesity. The CCH Regional SDC is currently the only area sleep center to offer this exciting new treatment.
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