medical > causes and cures of excessive yawning?
medical > causes and cures of excessive yawning?
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I'll evaluate all the above answers. I live alone so I am not watching anyone else yawn. My sleep is not good. I'm in bed about 12-14 hours straight. My yawning is too excessive to be "lack of sleep" though I know I am getting little sleep despite medication. When I was a teenager, I went to the doctor with the same problem. They said "boredom."
I feel the need to yawn coming on and try to stop it and this is creating what looks and feels like involuntary mouth movements.
I thought today that chewing gum might get the yawning muscles in another "mode".
There is no pattern as far as time of day, no consistent number per hour. They seem to come in bunches all throughout the day and at night if I am trying to get to sleep. Medication taken for anxiety is Xanax. It used to put me to sleep for 4-5 hours. Now it is failing.
I feel the need to yawn coming on and try to stop it and this is creating what looks and feels like involuntary mouth movements.
I thought today that chewing gum might get the yawning muscles in another "mode".
There is no pattern as far as time of day, no consistent number per hour. They seem to come in bunches all throughout the day and at night if I am trying to get to sleep. Medication taken for anxiety is Xanax. It used to put me to sleep for 4-5 hours. Now it is failing.
Since you're clearly under a doctor's care, have you ruled out any form of exercise...? Too much sleep can be counterproductive to NOT being sleepy...
Being in better shape can make a sleep more effective...
Medication for anxiety...? Is that like an anti-depressant...? Some of them can have a side-effect of yawning (don't know for sure which)... is it only since the meds that you've yawned excessively...?
Being in better shape can make a sleep more effective...
Medication for anxiety...? Is that like an anti-depressant...? Some of them can have a side-effect of yawning (don't know for sure which)... is it only since the meds that you've yawned excessively...?
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Xanax lowers your heart rate and helps me get to sleep.
I think it is one of my other medications or boredom, both of which will be hard to deal with for many reasons.
I think it is one of my other medications or boredom, both of which will be hard to deal with for many reasons.
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Not saying there can't be other causes though...
If you're really just tired with cause, don't worry unless the yawning is excessive... just get some quality sleep and relaxation...
If you don't have cause to be tired, the yawning could be a side-effect of the tiredness which would then be a symptom of something else...