When should you be concerned that you may have a sleep problem? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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When you experience interrupted sleep it can quickly progress to feeling exhausted, but when should you consult a physician about it? Sleep expert Charlene Gamaldo at Johns Hopkins says it never hurts to ask the question.

At baseline everybody's going to have a bad night's sleep every now and then. It does not rise to the level of being a sleep disorder until it meets some criteria of the length of time, the severity of it and how it impacts your day-to-day functioning. If it turns out that they don't meet that criteria it's therapeutic in and of itself to say that's okay,what you're experiencing is actually normal. Everybody will have a night of insomnia that's OK it's only a problem when it gets to this point.   :33

Trouble falling asleep or staying asleep on a regular basis, as well as daytime sleepiness and other issues may indicate insomnia, Gamaldo notes, and should prompt a visit to an expert. At Johns Hopkins, I’m Elizabeth Tracey.