When you start experiencing the medical condition problem sleepiness, your physician might refer you to visit a sleep specialist. 

Once you visit a sleep specialist, he or she will try to determine what your symptoms are and what is causing the problem. Your specialist might perform numerous test to try to find answers. You can sit down and address all the sleep issues that you have experiences and see what changes he or she might recommend for you to change or improve. 

A sleep specialist considers several objectives before they are able to make a diagnosis.

Some of these objectives could be:

- Gender and age

- A description of your symptoms

- Sleep questionnaires might need to be filled out

- Weekly sleep diary

- Medical and psychological history

- Sleep study tests

The sleep specialist will probably recommend that you make some environmental and behavioral changes to help make the step into the first treatment process.