About

Last updated: 26 August 2026

What this site is

Fix Your Sleep Disorder publishes free sleep tools and plainly-written answers about sleep problems.

Most sleep content online is written to rank, not to be used. You search something specific — am I actually sleep deprived, or just tired? — and get a 2,000-word article that restates your question, lists eight causes, and tells you to see a doctor. We think the useful version of that is usually a tool that takes your actual numbers and gives you an actual answer.

So the centre of this site is the tools:

• Sleep debt calculator — how much sleep you’re actually down, and how long it realistically takes to clear
• Bedtime calculator — when to go to bed to wake at a specific time without landing mid-cycle
• Sleep need estimator — what the evidence says about hours needed by age
• Sleep symptom check — a short questionnaire that tells you whether your pattern is the kind of thing worth taking to a doctor

The written articles exist to explain what the tools tell you, and to answer the specific questions people actually search for.

Editorial policy

Sourcing

Every health claim on this site must trace to a source we link. Our order of preference:

1. Primary health authorities — NIH, NHLBI, CDC, MedlinePlus, NHS
2. Specialty bodies — American Academy of Sleep Medicine, Sleep Research Society
3. Peer-reviewed research, preferring systematic reviews and meta-analyses over single studies
4. Clinical reference works with a named review process

We avoid citing other content sites as authorities for medical claims. If a fact is only found on a blog, it isn’t established enough for us to state it.

Pages record the date they were last checked against their sources.

What we will not publish

• Diagnoses or probability claims. We will not tell you that you have a condition, or how likely it is that you do.
• Absolute claims. No “cures”, “guaranteed”, “100% safe”, “completely eliminates”. These are automatically rejected before publication.
• Dosages or treatment protocols. Those belong to a prescriber who knows your history.
• Health claims without a citation. Blocked automatically.
• Reproductions of licensed clinical instruments. Validated screening questionnaires are copyrighted works, licensed by their rights holders. We do not reproduce them, paraphrase them closely, or present our own tools using their scoring bands or names.
• Content contradicting scientific consensus on established health questions.

Independence

We have no commercial relationship with any device manufacturer, supplement seller, mattress brand, or sleep clinic. Nothing on this site is a paid placement.

If that changes — for example if we add advertising or affiliate links — we will say so here and label it on the affected pages, before it goes live rather than after.

AI use

Our articles are AI-drafted and published automatically against a set of checks: every health claim must carry a source, the source must resolve, absolute claims and diagnostic language are rejected, and a separate pass verifies the source says what the article claims it says. We disclose this because readers evaluating a health page deserve to know how it was made.

Corrections

We would genuinely rather be corrected than be wrong quietly.

If you find an error — a misread source, a dead citation, outdated guidance, or a claim that overreaches what the evidence supports — email datik15405@proton.me. Substantive corrections are made to the page and noted on it with the date. We do not silently edit a page to hide that it was wrong.

Limitations we accept

We do not employ clinicians, so no page here has had expert clinical review. This is a real ceiling on what this site can responsibly claim, and it is why every page routes decisions back to a qualified professional rather than resolving them for you.

Medical disclaimer

Not medical advice

Everything on Fix Your Sleep Disorder — the articles, the calculators, and the symptom questionnaire — is provided for general education only. It is not medical advice, and it is not a substitute for talking to a qualified healthcare professional.

Do not use this site to decide whether to start, stop, or change any treatment.

Our tools do not diagnose

The symptom questionnaire on this site is not a diagnostic test. It is not a validated clinical instrument, it produces no probability that you have any condition, and a result from it means nothing on its own.

What it does is compare your answers against patterns that commonly prompt clinicians to investigate further, and tell you whether the pattern you describe is the kind of thing worth raising with a doctor. That is the whole of what it does.

Only a qualified clinician can diagnose a sleep disorder. In most cases that requires information a website cannot obtain — your medical history, a physical examination, and often an overnight sleep study.

The calculators are arithmetic. They tell you what your own numbers add up to. They do not know anything about your health.

Seek help promptly if

You should speak to a healthcare professional without waiting, whatever any tool here says, if you:

• fall asleep without warning during the day, especially while driving
• have been told you stop breathing, choke, or gasp in your sleep
• act out dreams physically, or injure yourself or a partner while asleep
• experience sudden muscle weakness triggered by emotion
• have sleep problems alongside chest pain, breathlessness, or a change in heart rhythm

Emergencies

If you think you may have a medical emergency, contact your local emergency services immediately. In the United States, call 911.

If you are having thoughts of harming yourself, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) in the US, or contact your local crisis service. Do not wait, and do not rely on anything you read here.

No clinician relationship

Reading this site, using its tools, or contacting us does not create any doctor–patient or clinician–patient relationship.

Accuracy and currency

We cite our sources and record when each page was last checked. Sleep medicine changes, links rot, and guidance is revised. We cannot guarantee that every page reflects the current state of the evidence at the moment you read it. Where a page and your clinician disagree, your clinician has your history and we do not — follow them.

Privacy

The short version

Your quiz and calculator answers never leave your browser. They are computed on your device. We do not receive them, store them, or transmit them anywhere.

Quiz and calculator data

Every tool on this site runs entirely client-side. When you answer the symptom questionnaire or enter numbers into a calculator:

• the calculation happens in your browser
• nothing is sent to our server
• nothing is written to a database — we do not operate one for this
• we cannot see your answers, and neither can anyone else

If you share a result link, your answers are encoded into the URL itself. That link contains your responses — treat it as private and only share it with someone you’d be comfortable telling directly. We still never receive it.

Analytics

We may use privacy-respecting analytics to understand which pages are useful — page views, referrers, approximate country. We do not build advertising profiles and we do not sell data.

If we later add a specific analytics provider, it will be named here before it goes live.

Search Console

We use Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools to see which search queries lead here. These report aggregated, anonymised query data. They do not identify individuals.

Advertising

There is currently no advertising on this site.

If we add it, this page will be updated before any ad code ships, and it will name the network and explain what that means for cookies and tracking.

Cookies

We set no tracking cookies of our own. Your theme preference (light/dark) is stored locally in your browser and never transmitted.

Email

If you email us, we hold that email in order to reply to it. We do not add you to any mailing list — we don’t operate one.

Your rights

If you’re in the UK, EU, or a US state with comparable law, you have rights to access, correct, and delete personal data held about you. Since the tools are client-side and we operate no user database, in most cases we hold nothing about you at all. If you have emailed us and want that deleted, ask and we’ll delete it.

Children

This site is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect data from them.

Changes

Material changes will be reflected here with an updated date at the top.