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What Causes Excessive Sleepiness And Poor Memory?
My friend is a 63 year old male, is not physically active, he s 5 6 and weighs 190. He works from home, and sleeps all the time. He falls asleep at his desk, he will sleep at night until four in the morning, gets up to go the bathroom a lot, and is only up a few hours when he s asleep again. He won t go to the doctor but I am very scared for him. His memory is not as good as it use to be as he is making many mistakes like leaving the groceries in the car when he comes home after going to pick up some things from the store. Could this be diabetes?
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190 pounds of weight makes him obese which means there is possibility of obstructive sleep apnea if there is history of snoring during night,excess day tie sleeping is most of times OSA or Drug related you have not mentioned any drug history ,He will need Epworth scoring the calculator of which is avalable on google and a thyroid function test which can also cause day time sleepiness.
190 pounds of weight makes him obese which means there is possibility of obstructive sleep apnea if there is history of snoring during night,excess day tie sleeping is most of times OSA or Drug related you have not mentioned any drug history ,He will need Epworth scoring the calculator of which is avalable on google and a thyroid function test which can also cause day time sleepiness.
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