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ColinDavies

Chris Maunder wrote: I assume doctors have ruled out sleep apnea? The biggest problem with that is that it is quite difficult to detect, you basically have to admit a person for several nights and monitor their oxygen levels whilst the sleep. The other more simple way is just try out the remedy for it, as its darn unlikely to be predjudicial, and see if the effects go away. I suspect lots of folk suffer from it, and it has never been diagnosed for them. Regardz Colin J Davies

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Mr Morden

Someone else has mentioned this, but it could be sleep apnea. I've got it, this is my checklist. 1. Do you wake up feeling more tired than when you went to bed? The longer the nights sleep, the worse I felt. 2. Are you Overweight? 3. Do you snore? 4. Do you cough a lot in the morning, especially after a steamy shower? I found out when I asked my doctor after a bit of a scare one morning when I fell asleep at the wheel on the way to work. I was at the docs on a unrelated matter, but was scared enough to ask. She suggested sleep apnea and sent me to a specialist. I spend one night in hospital, and they prescribed treatment in the form of a CPAP machine. I was feeling 30000% better within a week.

ColinDavies

Mr Morden wrote: I was feeling 30000% better within a week. yeah, I have heard similar, some folk have even thought they were dying of cancer etc, but it was apnea. Mr Morden wrote: I spend one night in hospital, and they prescribed treatment in the form of a CPAP machine. Do you find it uncomfortable to use, or do the benefits far outweigh that factor. The moment I put any mask on, I feel a bit weird. Regardz Colin J Davies

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Mr Morden

Colin Davies wrote: yeah, I have heard similar, some folk have even thought they were dying of cancer etc, but it was apnea I had a (minor) breakdown. I honestly thought I was going insane. I was depressed most of the time, and lost interest in nearly every activity. Even after I started treatment it took a couple of years to recover. That was around 1996. Colin Davies wrote: Do you find it uncomfortable to use, or do the benefits far outweigh that factor. The moment I put any mask on, I feel a bit weird. Initially, yes. As for benefits vs discomfort, read what I wrote above. That will give you a good answer. :) I dont even notice it anymore. In fact, a couple of years ago my old mask broke and I tried sleeping without. Couldn't. At 2am, I was up jury rigging some electrical wire to keep it on. Put the mask on and was out like a light. If I was cured today, I reckon I'd need 'training' to sleep without it.

philip andrew

Oh great... lots of people have this problem. Here's two things that could be causing the problem (there are others!!!) Sleep Apenia - Do you snore at night, if so maybe you stop breathing as well and this can make you tierd as you are suffercating at night. The only way to find out is to have a test... SERIOUSLY LOOK AT THIS, its hard to tell if you have it. A lot of people have it. http://www.sleepnet.com/disorder.htm Allergys, dust mite or simular can block up the nose and make it hard to get air during the night. You have to get a allergy test... Philip

Lost User

Silver. Member No. 11300 wrote: I suffer from excessive daytime fatigue. Even after a full night's sleep I still find myself passing out at my desk. It's hell. On one hand you have the overwhelming desire to just lay down on the floor and die, and on the other hand you have the need to feed your family. I think that you will find that your sleep is not actually as deep or complete as you think. This is also happening to me over the past 5-6 years. I find that sometimes I hear every little thing goig on inside and outside of the house and invariably wake up feeling like shit. Other times when I hear nothing and don't remember waking up I fell great. I usually feel crap about 1-2:00PM. I spent 6 weeks a little while ago doing physical work for 8 to 10 hours a day. I found that I was so physically tired that I would get a great nights sleep. Up until about 6 years ago I would go to the gym 3-4 times a week and again I would get a great nights sleep even if it weas only 5-6 hours. Last week I saw an article on TV about imsomnia. It wasn't about people not being able to get to sleep at all but taking quite a while to get to sleep. They would also wake up quite often and take that same long period of time getting to sleep. This meant that at the end of the night they have actually only slept a couple of hours. The radical experimental treatment was to be woken up about 50 times a night for a few nights until you learned the ability to get to sleep quickly. This minimized the time spent getting to back to sleep after each awakening. Michael Martin Australia mjm68@tpg.com.au "In Summer, I like to dance naked on the roof to celebrate the event of the temperature finally falling below 40C (usually about midnight). But the neighbors have lately taken up the habit of staying up late. And looking up, at times, from their dreary, pointless lives..." - Roger Wright 15/05/2002

Trollslayer at work

Silver, I have some good news for you :) I had similar problems for several years due to severe stress. One of the difficult things is that the symptoms of long term stress vary a lot so you have to look at the pattern which matches up with what happened to me. The cure (not in one go, but a big improvement after one session) was Reiki healing. This might sound daft at first but as an engineer it works, not expensive and no side effects so worth trying. Reiki is about balancing the body's energy flow using chkra points etc.. I know it might sound odd without the high tech approach, but give it a try. At the time I could hardly walk for a month and within 2 days I can get round a large supermarket. Cost per session ? £15 or about $25 from the guy I went to. And one other thing - learn to let go a bit, thats what builds up the troubles Good luck Elaine :rose:

Kevnar

yup.