Many people with multiple sclerosis will have a variety of different sleeping problems from time to time.  The multiple sclerosis sleeping problems they may experience will vary.  There are many different types of MS sleeping problems, such as insomnia, broken sleep patterns, narcolepsy, restless leg syndrome, and sleep disordered breathing, like sleep apnea.  There are many different reasons that people with the chronic neurological disease could experience these sleep problems.  For example, people may experience something like broken sleep patterns (waking up several times during the night) because they have incontinence issues due to nervous system damage.  They could also have this problem because of issues with pain related to their disease.  Restless leg syndrome could also cause people to wake up during the night and interrupt the sleep schedule.

Insomnia could also be related to pain.  Someone could have trouble falling asleep if they are in pain.  They could …