Posted by River1924 on July 29, 2006, at 11:50:07
In reply to Re: Don't want to be such a night owl... » Phillipa, posted by cecilia on July 29, 2006, at 7:56:43
Well, C...
You may want to look at this: "The Body Clock Guide to Better Health: How to Use Your Body's Natural Clock to Fight Illness and Achieve Maximum Health"
Well, when I started this thread... I was hoping to find a trick for sleep phase problems other than the offical way to readjuct one's chronobiological clock.
Each night one goes to sleep three hours later than the previous night until one ends up going to sleep at the correct time in the next week or 10 ten days. If you have some days off or don't work that might work.
Sometimes, I take the drug provigil prior to sleep so I will wake up with some alertness. Besides sleep apnea, I have non-sleep attack- non cataplectic narcolepsy (aka excessive daytime sleepiness.)
My sleep got off mainly when, after I had 10 phlebotomies to remove ferritin from my blood. It is disorder carried by 1:8 individuals and 1:200 have both genes for it. (There are more but that is another story (and, personally, I don't think they really have a clue about it yer.) Ferritin is a kind of iron (but even anemia doesn't rule out the diagnosis.) My sleep problem was awful prior to that. I was always sleepy. Now, at least, dextroamphetamine and provigil wake me up.
Anyway, stimulants are much more effective (even caffeine) and, by the time, I figured that out... my dextroamphetamine had kept me up until 4 am for too long and now my body kind of thinks that is bedtime.
My other problem is the computer :) It seems I shouldn't turn it one after work at midnite but I find that almost impossible. I don't use a computer at work so when I get home I like to check and mail and surf the web and, oops, 3am.
Ohhh, the problems of affluence. (And I don't really have much money... or sense, it seems.)
R.
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