Symptom detail

Excessive sleepiness

Excessive sleepiness is a mood, behavior, thinking, or sleep-related symptom that can be tracked with timing, stressors, sleep, medicines, substance use, and safety concerns.

Mental health / sleep Mood / sleep / behavior ID 210
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Common Tracking

Record mood, sleep hours, triggers, stressors, medicines, substance use, appetite, energy, concentration, safety concerns, and support or care contacts.

Urgency Context

Track patterns and contact a clinician for persistent, worsening, unexplained, recurrent, or concerning symptoms.

Connected records

Database matches for this symptom

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Modafinil

Used for: Modafinil tablets are indicated to improve wakefulness in adult patients with excessive sleepiness associated with narcolepsy, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), or shift work disorder (SWD). Limitations of Use In OSA, modafinil tablets are indicated to treat excessive sleepiness and not as treatment for the underlying obstruction.

Imported medicine concept