Re: Re: sleep and body temperture and a little night cap

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Yea my thyroid is out of whack, (TSH is in the 3s) but more on the hypo

side, yet symptoms range from typical hypo to hyper. I am definitely

mentally hyper.

Getting up and playing on the computer during the night is not uncommon

in this house.

but interesting that the warm head temp allows a clean night sleep. Its

like if the head don't get the warm temp, the hormone cascade does not

begin and the wired feeling commences.

On 21 Aug 2005, at 16:28, penny wrote:

> Bleu, that's interesting about the hat. I slept in a tent for a

> month this summer, and found a hat very helpful for regulating my

> body temperature so that I could sleep comfortably.

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> I've always been very cold too, but this last year I've been warm.

> Warmer than my kids, which they can't believe. But what's really

> strange is recently I feel hot all the time. This is such a change.

> I don't know why this is happening. It's not my thyroid, because my

> thyroid's actually running more on the hypo side than usual (which

> is normally associated with being cold). My inflammatory markers are

> up too, but when I take my temp, I " m still in the 97.7 range.

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> I wake up with that wired feeling too, especially when I take too

> much thyroid hormone (that's why I haven't been able to increase it

> lately, to lower my TSH). I'm sure you know the thyroid releases a

> big shot of hormone in the early a.m. hours. But I also feel wired

> sometimes if I stay up really late. I start getting a really antsy

> feeling. You know, I sometimes think it's a precursor to restless

> leg syndrome. Do you feel that way when it hits? Like you have to

> squirm around, just can't relax? For me, if it's really bad, I have

> to get up and do somemthing. Read or check the computer. Then when I

> go back to bed, I can relax agains and go right to sleep.

>

> Bleu, what are your thyroid levels? Any chance you're on the hyper

> side of things? Especially with the high cholesterol and being

> skinny. You could be working in that direction, although of course

> there are always exceptions to what's " normal " .

>

> penny

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> > As we know, many of us are cold. Ever since my infection started,

> I

> > have been cold, though I am no where near as cold as I was when

> really

> > ill, that was beyond a joke, everyone who shook my hand or touched

> my

> > skin thought I was the walking dead.

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> > I still notice others are much hotter than I am. especially in the

> > extremities.

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> > I have noticed that Sleep is very much affected by body temp,

> moreover

> > head temp. If the head is not as warm as it needs to be, disturbed

> > sleep is the result (for me) and as a secondary result, stress

> levels

> > rise, Colon function is negatively affected (Im trying to put it

> > nicely).. Etc.

> >

> > I have found that I will wake up at about 4 am, when head temp is

> > slightly low, and I will have a wired feeling. I have tried all

> sorts

> > to see what it might be. I have played with Thyroid hormones,

> sleeping

> > tabs (err), beta-blockers. What I have found works, is eating oats

> very

> > early in the morning, (6-7) then going back to bed allows stages 3-

> 4

> > sleep.

> >

> > But even better, a night cap, (a hat - lol - not what you first

> > thought...) a little reggae hat I have, if I ware that, I get a

> REALLY

> > good nights sleep. It is quite amazing. No waking up, and when I

> do

> > wake, I have been there. That stage 3 dream state, and if i just

> relax

> > I travel further (within a world of crazy dreams) into stage 4. It

> is

> > quite a lovely feeling awaking to the day knowing you have had the

> > chemical realise that makes a new day and closes an old one.

> >

> >

> > My hypothesis is that the hormone release is only viable if the

> head

> > temp is high enough.

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> > bleu

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