Re: Sleep Disorders

August 21, 2002

In a message dated 08/20/2002 10:07:35 PM US Eastern Standard Time,

patidu@... writes:

> I do wear it even if

> I have to look for it in the middle of the night. I have found it in the

> closet so I guess that I throw it in my sleep as well as losing it in the

> bed

> covers.

>

I can relate girlfriend...lol I have found mine in the bathroom, even outside

on the patio....I'm known for sleep walking...not a good sitution living in

the city lemme tell ya...lol

Allicia

August 21, 2002

Charity wrote, > . So, who knows, I

> might have narcolepsy, I may also just be SO sleep

> deprived that my body just shuts down occasionally??

> Who the bleep knows. *SIGH* I just wish some of these

> tests would actually come back with something solid

> that I could be treated for.

My husband has a theory with which I agree that when you have had a hard time

sleeping that you will finally go to sleep and you will sleep for quite a

long time. It is as if your body need to catch up. I rarely sleep past 8

in the morning but there are time that I will sleep until 1 or 2 in the after

noon.

Since I don't sleep well although I can go to sleep with the meds I take at

night, Duff says that I don't sleep well, that I toss and turn and cry out in

pain. I am also up and down at night and Duff hears me get up and comes to

find out if I am all right.

Take care,

Irene

Books may well be the only true magic

Alice Hoffman

August 21, 2002

Charity wrote, > . So, who knows, I

> might have narcolepsy, I may also just be SO sleep

> deprived that my body just shuts down occasionally??

> Who the bleep knows. *SIGH* I just wish some of these

> tests would actually come back with something solid

> that I could be treated for.

My husband has a theory with which I agree that when you have had a hard time

sleeping that you will finally go to sleep and you will sleep for quite a

long time. It is as if your body need to catch up. I rarely sleep past 8

in the morning but there are time that I will sleep until 1 or 2 in the after

noon.

Since I don't sleep well although I can go to sleep with the meds I take at

night, Duff says that I don't sleep well, that I toss and turn and cry out in

pain. I am also up and down at night and Duff hears me get up and comes to

find out if I am all right.

Take care,

Irene

Books may well be the only true magic

Alice Hoffman

August 21, 2002

Charity wrote, > . So, who knows, I

> might have narcolepsy, I may also just be SO sleep

> deprived that my body just shuts down occasionally??

> Who the bleep knows. *SIGH* I just wish some of these

> tests would actually come back with something solid

> that I could be treated for.

My husband has a theory with which I agree that when you have had a hard time

sleeping that you will finally go to sleep and you will sleep for quite a

long time. It is as if your body need to catch up. I rarely sleep past 8

in the morning but there are time that I will sleep until 1 or 2 in the after

noon.

Since I don't sleep well although I can go to sleep with the meds I take at

night, Duff says that I don't sleep well, that I toss and turn and cry out in

pain. I am also up and down at night and Duff hears me get up and comes to

find out if I am all right.

Take care,

Irene

Books may well be the only true magic

Alice Hoffman

August 21, 2002

Irene,

What your husband believes is not necessarily true. In cases where an

individual is under distress of some kind that is temporarily affecting normal

sleep that is true.

In cases where sleep is disturbed due to a physical problem such as OSA or

due to abnormality of the brain chemicals it is not. People have been known to

go without deep sleep for months and it is both physical and psychological

damaging.

Yours Dana

August 21, 2002

Irene,

What your husband believes is not necessarily true. In cases where an

individual is under distress of some kind that is temporarily affecting normal

sleep that is true.

In cases where sleep is disturbed due to a physical problem such as OSA or

due to abnormality of the brain chemicals it is not. People have been known to

go without deep sleep for months and it is both physical and psychological

damaging.

Yours Dana

August 21, 2002

Irene,

What your husband believes is not necessarily true. In cases where an

individual is under distress of some kind that is temporarily affecting normal

sleep that is true.

In cases where sleep is disturbed due to a physical problem such as OSA or

due to abnormality of the brain chemicals it is not. People have been known to

go without deep sleep for months and it is both physical and psychological

damaging.

Yours Dana

August 21, 2002

I can say without a doubt, I have not slept for more than 2 hours straight in at

least 15 years. My total nightly hours sleeping range between 3 and 5 on

average. If I sleep more than 5 hours I am ecstatic. I actually try and get to

bed by 9 or 10 and I don't get up until 7AM, but I lay in bed in the middle of

the night just thinking and thinking and I never get up anymore looking for ways

to occupy my time. If I stay in bed I will eventually fall asleep, but I have

been known to stay there in the dark and stay wide awake til the morning light

shows up. I never but never sleep during the day because once I have been in

bed past 6AM I hurt so bad I am in severe pain everywhere. I have to get up and

get the body moving. I used to get up in the middle of the night and do my

emailing. The problem is that I would stay up the rest of the night and go days

and days with only 1 or 2 hours per night. At any rate, my point to all of this

is that I have never caught up on my sleep and I have never stayed in bed past

the first few minutes of daylight. I only wish I could sometimes !LOL

August 21, 2002