Sleep deprivation study
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As a teenager I went through a year of sleep deprivation. I got about six hours of sleep a night. I felt very sleepy every day and even had feelings of confusion and derealization. Did I cause any permanent damage to my brain? In addition, has damage caused by oxidative stress and free radicals irreversibly increased my cancer risk?
Can you describe some more details regarding the seizure activity to know better? Sleep deprivation can be one of the triggers for seizure activity. It need not always happen at night. You may consult a neurologist for complete check up and investigations including a sleep study. Take care and share your thoughts.
My doctor (not the neuro) has suggested I may want to do a sleep study, the usual kind. He will prescribe it, and so on.
The thing is, my sleep has been pretty horrible for years, ever since 2001. That's when I came off Klonopin with disastrous results. Since then I've had a lot of prescriptions to help with sleep, including quite a few for which somnolence is a side effect, but which I didn't need otherwise. In recent years I've had a lot of Ambien or Lunesta.
Not everyone needs the typically recommended amount of sleep. I THOUGHT I was one of those people, but it turned out I was not. I believe that my avoidance of sleep was my body/brain's instinctive survival mechanism, as my sleep was both miserable and dangerous. Between obstructive sleep apnea and periodic limb movement disorder (PLMD), sleep was not a pleasant place to go, so I didn't until I collapsed.
I will be headed back to the doc very soon and will be tested for hypoxemia and I believe he will be sending me out for another sleep study as an update as he mentioned before.
Most dreaming happens towards the end of our sleep period, and with a high level of sleep deprivation, what little sleep you get could be deeper levels, as indicated by the time you spent in N2 and N3 sleep. You need to find an expert who can interpret your results. Sadly, some (most?) sleep "experts" are not sleep experts, they are sleep apnea experts who can do little more than diagnose sleep apnea and prescribe cpap machines. That was the results of my sleep study.
There not sure why warm milk help sleep as tryptophan only helps with the initial cycle of sleep but can disrupt deep sleep, but you may want to try it to help you get to sleep initially just only drink a small glass. There is something called Lactium in milk which relaxes infants but there is an all natural medication called dreamerz food that contains a consentrated amount of Lactium(enough for an adult) along with melatonin that has gotten alot of great attention.
I already was struggling with poor sleep due to sleep apnea that was undiagnosed at the time. At work my responsibilities increased and I was constantly rehashing in my mind the various decisions I had to make in selecting and writing specs for a data management software conversion. Then an extended family member was killed in the military and I had to plan the local service while the parents were out of state at the memorials on the base.
Chronic sleep deprivation can cause crazy symptoms including much of what you describe (dizziness, double vision). In fact, get a referral to a sleep specialist at a university hospital if you can. Sleep deprivation will do a number on your
Nervous system, cardiovascular system etc.
I turned out to have mixed sleep apnea -- some obstructive but also sleep onset central apnea. It got to the point where I was getting no sleep -- The moment I fell asleep, I stopped breathing.
I even have the most powerful headache. Then I am afraid to go back to sleep thereby sleep deprivation. Is it a link with MS? I don't know. My neurologist want to schedule a sleep study.
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