General Practitioners

• Medical Weight Loss
  Reducing your weight is likely to make a difference to your condition. Certainly, increasing weight will make your snoring and sleep related breathing irregularities worse. It is important that you try to reach an ideal body weight and maintain the weight loss. Reducing your weight will also decrease the risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Remember to be more physically active as well as eating less.
• Snoring
• Primary Care
  In addition to the primary care physician, pulmonologists, neurologists, or other physicians with specialty training in sleep disorders may be involved in making a definitive diagnosis and initiating treatment. Diagnosis of sleep apnea is not simple because there can be many different reasons for disturbed sleep. Several tests are available for evaluating a person for sleep apnea.
• Sleep Disorders
  The information below is a reproduction of material from the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research. No changes have been made to the text of the article, but section headings have been highlighted. The National Center on Sleep Disorders Research is a part of the National Institutes of Health National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
• Pneumonia

Internists

• Internal Medicine
  David Panossian, M.D. earned his BS degree in Chemistry from Walla Walla College. He graduated from Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1989. He trained in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Loma Linda University Medical Center. Dr. Panossian is Board Certified in Pulmonary Disease, Sleep Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine. He serves as Medical Director of Cardiopulmonary Services at Sky Lakes Medical Center. His clinical interests are adolescent and adult asthma, emphysema, interstitial lung disease, and sleep medicine. He enjoys time with his family, photography and basketball.
• Lung Cancer
  Pulmonary medicine is the specialty of internal medicine devoted to diagnosing and treating diseases of the chest and lungs. Pulmonologists evaluate disorders such as asthma, emphysema, lung cancer, pneumonia, sleep apnea, tuberculosis, and other breathing disorders. They also have special training in bronchoscopy, which uses a small fiber-optic scope to examine the airways.

Neurologists

• Multiple Sclerosis
  Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder caused by the brain's inability to regulate sleep-wake cycles normally. The main features of narcolepsy are excessive daytime sleepiness and cataplexy. The disease is also often associated with sudden sleep attacks, insomnia, dream-like hallucinations, and a condition called sleep paralysis. Its prevalence in the developed world is approximately the same as that of multiple sclerosis or Parkinson's disease. However, with increased public education about narcolepsy and physician training in the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders, these figures are expected to rise.
• Epilepsy
  Sedative medications include pain medications such as narcotics, sleeping pills, antihistamines, anti-allergy pills, some cold medicines, some anti epilepsy drugs, and some medications used for psychiatric conditions. As with alcohol, sedative medications are likely to worsen your breathing irregularities. Consult your physician before taking sedative medication. Definitely do not use any sedative medication with alcohol as the effects will be potentiated several times.

Psychiatrists

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  Some of these symptoms are similar to those described in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), such as trouble concentrating, hyperactivity, and nervousness. In fact, some children are misdiagnosed as having ADHD when they are actually suffering from OSAS. If you have noticed that your child has some of the above symptoms, you should talk to your pediatrician about referral to a sleep specialist.
• Depression
• Insomnia
• Anxiety

Radiologist

• X-Rays

Allergists

• Allergies