sleeping disorders

I continue to hear more and more about sleeping disorders. Is it our age, menopause, too much to do? Who knows, but there seems to be more about it in the media too.

I read in the local paper that lack of sleep can put you at risk for obesity, diabetes, or heart disease. It has something to do with our ability to process glucose when we don't get enough sleep. We also feel exhausted and less likely to exercise.

Tolearn more check out these sites:
www.umm.edu/sleep
www.nhlbi.nih.gov/about/ncsdr/
www.sleepfoundation.org

hmmmmmm sleep disorders ---- let's see ---- it's 4:15 am and I've been awake since 3 ----- nope --- haven't experienced any sleeping problems lately

You are not the only woman I have seen in here in the middle of the night. You are doing the right thing though. I think lying in bed, thinking, wondering, worrying, is the worst thing to do.

Gosh that made me laugh. I am up at 3 or 4 more than I would like to think. Even now when I've taken some Tylenol PM after my surgery. I sleep 4 hrs and then am in a fog the rest of the day. The worst is when I am up at 2 or 3 and can't get back to sleep and still have to start getting ready for work at 5;30.Can't fall asleep in the class room. I've run out of Soy and Prim RoseOil pills.Think it makes a difference.To the store,Caloona.

I make up on and off throughout the night all the time, and only get six hours anyway. I think my sleep problems have more to do with the person sleeping next to me that sounds like some beast from the deep when he's asleep. He needs to find out if he's going to have suregery on his deviated septum soon.

I have had a sleep problem all my life. I go in cycles. Up all night, sleep all day, then turn it around after a few days and sleep at night again. It was really bad when I worked. I had to drag myself around to get up and ready to face the day. Now I can take a nap anytime, which I am very grateful for. (aren't naps a great thing?) BUT when I can get to sleep at night sometimes, then it's "The Train Is Coming Into The Station" syndrome. I mean, I think the windows are going to break. The snoring gives me such a headache. It wakes me out of a solid sleep or if I haven't fell asleep, it will keep me awake. So, I sit here at my computer with my eyes all itchy and red....I love my husband but I need sleep!

I wonder how women in Victorian ,and before, times slept in the days of separate rooms.My husband's job keeps him away most of the week but when he is home during the week he has to fall asleep with the tv on-I can't.I like to fall asleep after I've read a nice book that takes my mind to another place.He hates the light on and even the book light wakes him up.
I like to gently wake to classical music. He on the other hand needs to wake-a half hour before me I might add-to an alarm clock sound that gives me such a jolt I feel like I've been jump started by a Mac truck!!

With my ex-husband I did sleep in a separate room. His snoring was the worst ever! I liked the tv on, he didn't. Mainly because I couldn't sleep most of the time. Or I read a book and the light would bother him. So, off to the spare bedroom I went! It was great!

A couple of my suggestions are to use silicone earplugs and take your calcium at bedtime. I notice that using the computer at night just makes me more wired than, say, reading.

Earplugs...what a practical solution! I don't sleep with a snorer, but if I did I would certainly get earplugs before I lost out on precious sleep.

I've used earplugs, but am still kept up by the vibrations through the matress because of his snoring. Separate beds are sounding better and better.

You guys are newlyweds...you can't do that!

Don't worry. We don't have room for another bed, let alone another bed room!

I've tried ear plugs. all varieties. The sound still comes through. One time I put ear plugs in my ears, then head phones on top of my ears and turned the volumn up on the headset so that it finally drowned out the snoring but I woke with a horrible headache. Do some women snore this badly?

I have sleeping problems too. But mine are of a slightly different variety.
I work nights. But only 3 nights a week. So my sleep schedule is continually being changed. I work 7 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. Usually, I try to do this three days in a row, but sometimes it will be one day on, one day off, two days on, two days off or other variations. Therefore, on my day off, I am sleeping through the day and then back to work with no time to do housework, spend time with my family, or even eat proper meals. (I have to factor in a 144 mile round trip in this schedule). If I come home from work and have to return the same evening, then I have to go to bed almost immediately in order to get a total of 6 hours of sleep between shifts. If I am going to be off 2 or 3 days between shifts, then I will take a short 2-3 hour nap, then stay up until 9 or 10 p.m. and go to bed with hubby. The next morning I need to get up fairly early to be able to get anything accomplished. (I usually have a week's worth of laundry, dishes, and cleaning to do on this day).
Anyway, its a constant struggle. I'm thinking about looking for work that is closer to home. I hate to change jobs again, but I'm not sure I can keep up this pace with school.
By the way, my hubby snores sometimes too. I once tape-recorded him snoring and played it back to him when he woke up. He didn't t hink it was very funny...lol

What is going on with this sleep thing?

I have more people telling me they can't sleep these days.

Is it stress, perimenopause, menopause, kids moving away to college, teens, work?

I know exercies is supposed to be good for it, but women I know that exercise are waking up and not able to get back to sleep.

Any thoughts?

Girls,
Just a suggestion. A friend told me a long time ago to drink a little milk and eat a few vanilla wafers right before going to bed. He assured me I would get the best nights sleep I had ever had. I tried it and let me tell you, it works. At least it does for me.

As far as the snoring ones go, try beating the little darlings in the head with a hammer. I know that always worked for my X-husband's snoring. (Just joshing)

I have struggled with sleep for years. I do have several persons who snore in my household. My son (who is now 17) lets out only 3-5 snores per night but they are deafening and give him a sore throat they are so loud. They are like a lion roar. It starts at the back of his throat and builds. It is a sinus thing and hilariously funny. Well, kind of funny. Unless you are trying to sleep in the same house.
I have trouble falling asleep. Once I am asleep, a nuclear attack couldn't wake me. It is nearly impossible for me to fall asleep though. I lie there for hours... listening to the breathing patterns of everyone in the house.
Milk, whether warmed or not does work. I just happen to hate milk.
I know some people who are hooked on tylenol pm and that is not a good thing. I have a prescription i can take... when all else fails... i take it. usually, when sleepy enough i do well. summer heat is the worst. a fan helps, even with the ac on. i like fresh air blowing on me so the air doesn't feel like it is standing still. i have learned to tune out the snoring household except when my stress level is at a really high level.
--kay oleladee

Sometimes snoring can be eliminated by having a vaporizer running in the room. this is best done during the dry winter months, when you aren't going to mind a little extra warmth in the room. When my hubby starts to snore like a freight train from hell, I touch his nostrils with a couple of little gloms of Vicks VapoRub. I also rub his chest and throat, if I can get to them. Because his snoring is mostly a product of a badly deviated septum, this works wonderfully. He's also very cooperative by letting me turn him over in his sleep, which I know is a rare luxury among men. Anyway, yes, I do believe some women snore that badly (I think I probably do), and I'm sure that folks in ages past were sensible enough to have separate bedrooms because of different committments of sleep patterns, work patterns, newborns and such... there wasn't the same assumption of total emotional intimacy in those eras, either, so no one thought it was strange. In fact, they might have thought it strange if marrieds always shared the same bed ("Whats' the matter, your house is too small for you to have your own boudoir?") But these days, who can afford to have an extra room just for the luxury of it? But if you've got a medical reason for sleeping alone (like, your mate's snoring won't let you sleep), by all means, go for it!

I've had problems sleeping for many, many years. My shrink and I think that my present problems may be due to side effects of my Prozac... so I take Ambien on a regular basis (every other night or so). It still leaves me a bit groggy in the morning, but that quickly wears off. When I take it, I don't hear any snoring, thunder, lamps falling over, knocks at the door, nada, zip. So I'm a happy sleeper now!

LilianOwl, I love your response. I never thought about the other bedroom thing not being strange and having one bedroom meaning you weren't "good enough." Even if you ddin't have a medical problem, it might be good just for taste things. I mean, most guys would proabbly prefer not to sleep among flowery blankets and lace pilllow cases, and most women probably don't want a mirror on the ceiling or giant tv screen on the wall. It'd be nice for that reason alone. I finally got a bed spread with flowers on it. NOthing too girly, but my bedroom is not unisex anymore.

Have the person checked out for sleep apnea.....believe me, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. If they have it and are prescribed a CPAP machine, all you have to deal with then is the humming of the machine!

He had the study done and he didn't have it. He doesn't want to get the surgery. I am going to try using the Vics under the nose like someone suggested.

Or a big pinch-type clothespin will do the trick, too!!

I remember those clothes pins. We would use them to make tents with Mom's sheets. Clip and clip and clip and before we knew it we had special rooms in our tents! Those were the good old days!