Help Me To Sleep

Jane asked:


After 2 months with only 3 or 4 hours of sleep per night could this lead to depression?

When was the last time you had a good night sleep? The feeling was heavenly, right? You have a clearer disposition in life. You look good. Your skin glows. You could do your job well and most of all, you could maintain that killer smile continuously flashing on your face. So, forget wearing that grumpy face of yours when you didn’t get a good sleep.

But how do I get a good sleep? This is the million dollar question of the millions of insomniacs out there. Some have consulted professional help and others have tried all the over the counter drugs just to find the best cure for the disorder. Before taking any measure that would involve money and spending, why not follow these helpful tips:

Don’t be a worrier! Let tomorrow worries for itself
If you are troubled, don’t try to solve them at the same time
Have a more positive outlook in life
Forget about your work when you are about to go to sleep
Keep yourself tidy and fresh before going to bed.
Avoid thinking too much!
Drink a glass of milk before bedtime.
Read a good book
Make sure that your stomach is not empty and not too full!
Don’t forget to pray!!!

Remember that an optimistic person emits positive vibration. You are inviting good things to come into your life. Just think that you don’t have trouble getting sleep. You’ll be surprised that you no longer have the disorder nor the help of those sleeping pills and professional advice..

By: Bernadette Santiago

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While being fakely tortured by self-inflicted jet-lag remedies, Jeremy admits something everyone else pretty much already knew

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If you are suffering from sleep apnea, you may have asked yourself many times the same questions, if there is any cure

for your sleep apnea? You would agree with me if I say that you want to solve your sleepless night not by having to wear an electric breathing machine all night long. Yes I know how uncomfortable it is. Therefore in this article we are going to look at the possible sleep apnea natural cure and hopefully it will be your answer to a sound sleep.

Do You Know What Sleep Apnea Is

When a patient’s airway collapses while he or she is sleeping, cutting off the patient’s supply of oxygen it is known as Sleep apnea. Why and how does he wakes up? To wake the patient up, the brain triggers the glands to let out a surge in hormones and other chemicals. Usually the patient awakens, changes his sleeping position, continues breathing, and goes back to sleep – until the next time the airway collapses. This interruption of sleep is happening for a few times till the next day. In some cases the patients wake up over 100 times per night without even knowing it. It is hard for them to believe it happens when being mentioned of the problems.

What Are The Effects

There are a few sever sleeping disorders side effects, mainly it causes all sorts of problems. First, the patient’s relationship with his or her spouse or partner. The patients are known to be notoriously loud snorers and their partners take offense having to sleep in separate rooms or keep waking up all night long. So everyone will have a bad day the next day due to lack of sleep.

It has been always in the top list for sleep apnea patients who want to cure their disorders. Most of them are desperate. During daytime they are faced with tiredness and they are five times more likely to be involved in automobile accidents than individuals who do not have.

The patients are also at high risk for developing diabetes and heart disease due to the repeated rush of chemicals caused by the frequent waking and sleeping cycle. Complications during pregnancy can also caused by sleep apnea. Finally sleep apnea decreases the patient’s sexual function.

The Cure

CPAP machine is a traditional treatment method, which the patient wears all night to control her breathing. However there are some patients who have found relief with natural cures.

A flower remedy known as Vervain is one natural cure for this problem. Dr. Eve Campanelli of Beverly Hills found that Vervain had a calming influence on her patients and helped them solve their sleeping problems.

Another natural cure is exercises which believe can help the patient stop snoring. If the patient learns to relax his jaw, it may solve his snoring problem. How it is done ? The patient lightly clenches his jaw, then opens and closes his mouth slowly 20 times in a row. After about ten repetitions, the patient will start to feel the muscle workout in the jaw. Strengthening the jaw muscles is thought possible to eliminate snoring.

The final Sleep Apnea Natural Cure are by using contoured, memory foam pillows. These pillows provide support through the night while holding the patient’s head in a position that discourages snoring. The patient reduces the risk of airway collapse by maintaining the airway in a straight line.

By: Fatima Edris

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lilhotrod065 asked:


This is a sleep disorder and my 13 daughter has it. you can find one i would love the help. If you are a poem writer maybe you could write one. Her name is KrisTina and she is scarred, and starting middle school and just wants to be accepted. She is trying to find words to let others know how she feels.

This is serious please no jokes, I am trying to help my daughter fit in, in a world that don’t like anything different than the normal. Thanks

It has been estimated that about one-fourth of the people with bipolar disorder also have sleep apnea. This sleep disorder is difficult and dangerous for anyone. For people with bipolar, sleep apnea is troublesome in even more ways.

People with bipolar usually have a problem with their biological clocks. There are certain neurons in everyone’s brains which control the rhythms of daily wakefulness and sleep. People with bipolar disorder have disturbances in these neurons that affect their ability to sleep during the night.

This affects the moods of people with bipolar disorder because they become sleep deprived. Because their bipolar disorder makes them more susceptible to mood changes, this sleep deprivation works on their moods to make them more agitated and manic.

Bipolar sleep apnea causes the same problems. People with both bipolar disorder and sleep apnea may wake up many times during the night. They may not even realize that they have awakened. They wake up just long enough to get a gasp of air and then they change positions and go back to sleep in some cases.

In other cases, the person with bipolar will abandon all hope of getting a good night’s sleep and get out of bed altogether. In either case, there is a sleep disturbance that leads to some degree of sleep deprivation.

When these people stay up too long during the night, they may take naps during the day. Sleeping during the day is not conducive to rejuvenation of the body and brain. The special neurons that govern the biological clock are thrown off, because melatonin is sent out during periods of darkness.

There has been some work done with people who have bipolar disorder to help with this light and dark situation. While light therapy is used for people with depression, darkness therapy may be used for people who are becoming manic. This is a system where all sleep is done in the dark. It seems to regulate their moods.

However, people with bipolar sleep apnea are at a disadvantage. They may be able to sleep at proper times. Yet, if they do not sleep through the night, their mood will tend to become more agitated unless they are able to get some sleep in the darkness. Even then, the sleep apnea keeps them from truly resting.

The problem is that at no time can they lay down without suffering the dangers of sleep apnea. The lack of oxygen to the brain and the tissues of the body will always be troublesome. Rising blood pressure results from an increase in adrenaline. Strokes and heart problems can follow. These are the problems that all people with sleep apnea face.

Bipolar patients who have sleep apnea also have to deal with their disorder. It has been shown that bipolar patients who are treated for sleep apnea tend to have fewer mood disturbances than they had before. When they do have problems with their moods, they are less severe.

Bipolar sleep apnea is certainly a difficult problem for those who face it. It robs them of sleep which is vital to their ability to regulate their moods. However, their disorder may improve greatly with treatment.

By: Chris Dreyer

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Crispy asked:


Will I experience jet lag going from the US to Spain?

Narcolepsy is a very serious condition that can endanger an individual’s life. Sufferers of this condition will find themselves dropping off to sleep in the middle of a normal activity and are often tired during the day. Such a condition is not due to sloth or keeping late nights, but is a medical issue and can cause the individual much distress.

This condition usually shows up between the ages of 10 and 25. It will rarely affect those who are over the age of 40.

Despite having a good rest at night, intense fatigue and dozing off during the day are signs of this issue. People who suffer from narcolepsy have difficulty focusing on daily tasks due to a constant feeling of being tired. This symptom is troubling enough, but in some cases the sufferer will also have a tendency to suddenly fall asleep, even while performing certain tasks.

This can be very serious and dangerous because it happens with no prior warning. The person has no time to stop doing what they are doing to get prepared. There is no time to remove yourself from a potentially dangerous situation and find a safe place to lie down. It can occur at any instant and so it is life-threatening if you are engaged in activities such as driving or operating heavy machinery.

When these episodes strike, the individual’s length of sleep can range from a few minutes to as long as half an hour. This pattern can repeat itself several times during the course of a day. Often, there are automatic reactions that accompany this issue like a resumption of activities beforen they dozed off. Many people do not remember this behavior after waking up from and episode.

Around 75% of narcolepsy sufferers also experience another symptom called cataplexy. Narcolepsy actually shuts the body down to some extent and muscles cannot be controlled by the individual. It could be anything from trouble speaking to a loss of all muscle control. Some will experience this symptom more often than others. Some report rare instances, while others experience it every day. It has been suggested that there is some link between narcolepsy and swings in moods and emotions such as uncontrollable euphoria or anger.

Narcolepsy can also show up in the form of paralysis, such as can be seen during REM sleep. However, paralysis in such situations occurs when the individual is beginning to fall asleep or is awakening. What is scary about this is that the individual is conscience that it is happening but is powerless to stop it or do anything.

A common sign of narcolepsy is hypnagogic hallucinations. The individual experiences very real images when he is in a state of half-consciousness. 25% to 50% of those with this condition tend to have such symptoms.

There is still much to learn about what actually causes narcolepsy, but it is believed that genetics plays a role. Having low amounts of a chemical called hypocretin, which is needed to awaken sleep, can be a possible reason.

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We live in an age that demands an instant cure for every conceivable ailment under the sun and so it’s no surprise that jet lag has joined the band of conditions for which there is the promise of a cure in the form of a pill. But can a pill really provide the panacea to jet lag, or are the results of taking such pills nothing more than imagined.

Jet lag is a common sleep disorder that just about any long-haul air traveler will be familiar with. It is caused by the body’s inability to reset its internal clock quickly enough to bring it into line with local time when arriving at your destination.

For example, consider flying from London to Singapore. You arrive at eight o’clock in the morning local time to start a busy day of meetings or sightseeing. Your internal clock, however, is still set on London time of two o’clock in the morning and is telling you that you should be in bed and fast asleep.

Whatever method you use for either preventing or curing jet lag, and there are many different ways of doing this, the end result must be a realignment of your own body clock to that of local time, if the symptoms of jet lag are to disappear. So can this be achieved with a simple pill?

One of the most widely used pills available today is a homeopathic preparation containing such things as extracts from the chamomile plant and a common form of daisy. Now while homeopathic remedies have a long and well established history, and while chamomile itself is known for its properties in assisting sleep, it seems more than a little far fetched to suggest that taking a pill before you take off will fast forward your body clock some six hours during the course of your flight from London to Singapore.

So why do so many people swear by such pills? There are probably four reasons:

First, we are conditioned to believe that the advance of science is such that doctors can cure just about anything today and so why shouldn’t we believe in a pill to cure jet lag.

Second, different drug trials have demonstrated time and time again the power of the “placebo effect”. In other words, the mere fact that something is being done to combat a condition can in itself produce the felling that it works.

Third, jet lag doesn’t always kick in straight away. We’re all familiar with the fact that a few late nights doesn’t always effect us straight away and that it may be two or three days before our late nights catch up with us. Because many travelers also feel fine for their first couple of days they assume that the pills must have worked. When jet lag does catch up with them, they then often wrongly attribute their symptoms to the change in climate or something they’ve eaten.

Fourth, the sale of pills, of any description, is big businesses supported by big advertising budgets and clever marketing. This marketing extends to jet lag pills and is even supported by studies which clearly demonstrate the effectiveness of such pills. The only problem here is that many of the studies quoted are fundamentally flawed and lack any detail. Most studies, for example, involve airline crews, in particular cabin staff, who are hardly representative of the bulk of the traveling public and might well be thought to have a vested interest in promoting air travel.

It would be lovely if we could just take a pill when we board the aircraft and arrive at our destination with no jet lag. Unfortunately, at least for now, this simply isn’t possible.

Preventing jet lag, or at least reducing jet lag symptoms considerably, is not difficult and involves a little bit of planning in advance of your trip and following a careful, but simple, plan before, during and after your flight. The one thing is doesn’t involve is a so-called magic jet lag pill.

Copyright 2005 Donald Saunders – http://help-me-to-sleep.com

By: Donald Saunders

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