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Sleep disorder questionnaire

Answer honestly and see which patterns are worth taking to a doctor.

Fifteen questions about how you have been sleeping over the past month, plus four about things that matter regardless of the rest. It takes two or three minutes. Scoring happens in your browser — there is no server involved and nothing is stored.

Over the past month

1. You have to push through tiredness to get an ordinary day done.
2. You lose the thread — rereading the same line, missing what someone just said.
3. You nod off when you didn't mean to: watching something, in a meeting, as a passenger.
4. Caffeine is doing a lot of the work of keeping you functional.
5. You've been told you snore loudly.
6. You wake with a dry mouth, sore throat, or a headache.
7. You wake feeling like you barely slept, even after enough hours in bed.
8. You wake suddenly feeling like you need air.
9. You lie awake a long time after lights out.
10. You wake in the night and can't get back to sleep.
11. You find yourself worrying about sleep during the day.
12. You sleep well enough, but at hours that don't fit the life you need to live.
13. On free days your sleep shifts by several hours compared with work days.
14. Your legs feel restless or uncomfortable when you sit still in the evening.
15. You've been told you kick, jerk, or thrash in your sleep.

A few things that matter on their own

Tick anything that has happened. These carry more weight than the questions above, and one of them alone is enough to be worth a conversation.

Things that matter on their own

What this actually is

15 questions across the five areas clinicians usually ask about — daytime tiredness, breathing and snoring, getting and staying asleep, sleep timing, and movement — plus 4 questions about things that matter on their own, whatever the rest of your answers look like.

It is our own questionnaire. It is not the Epworth scale, or any other published instrument, and it does not produce a score in anyone else's units. Every validated sleep instrument requires a paid licence for use on a site like this one, so rather than reproduce one badly we wrote our own questions against the same underlying areas. The trade-off is honest and worth stating plainly: ours is not validated. It has no research behind it establishing what its answers predict. It is a structured way of noticing what you'd otherwise have to remember on the spot in a ten-minute appointment.

What it can't do

It can't diagnose you, and it won't try. No result here names a condition as a conclusion, and none has a percentage attached to it — a questionnaire cannot support that kind of claim, and tools that made it anyway have been the subject of enforcement action. Diagnosing a sleep disorder generally takes your history, an examination, and often an overnight study.

It also can't tell you that you're fine. A quiet result means the patterns it asks about weren't strongly present in your answers — not that nothing is wrong.

Getting more out of the appointment

The single most useful thing you can bring a doctor is a record rather than an impression. A week or two of actual hours is worth more than "I'm always tired" — the sleep debt calculator is a quick way to add them up, andhow much sleep you need by age gives you the target to measure against.