When to ask
When sleep is worth taking to your doctor
The signs that suggest this needs a person rather than a self-help list.
3 minSource: NHS
Worth booking an appointment
Poor sleep most nights for a month or more, despite changes to routine.
Sleepiness that affects driving, work, or looking after other people.
Loud snoring, gasping, or pauses in breathing that someone else has noticed. This needs assessment in its own right.
Night sweats that regularly soak nightclothes or bedding.
Low mood or anxiety alongside the sleep problem.
What helps the appointment
Two weeks of simple notes: what time you went to bed, roughly how the night went, how you felt the next day.
Your check-in history in You can do most of this for you. Doctor Prep turns it into a summary without interpreting it.
Source
NHS information on insomnia. This is general information, not advice about your situation.
Sleep is where memory consolidates and mood resets. It compounds further than almost anything else here.
General information, not medical advice. Narrated never diagnoses.
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