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I recently griped that I sleep more than anyone, but that all that sleep does not make me feel rested. Actually it makes me feel terrible; when I first wake up in the morning I feel as if I've been beaten with a baseball bat.
Back in the day I was diagnosed with sleep apnea, a phenomenon in which one stops breathing during sleep. It partially wakes you, reducing the quality of sleep.
But I had surgery for it in 2008. As far as I could tell the surgery worked. Actually for some time my sleep was just dandy.
In response to my comment, AC recommended I take Vitamin D. Now I am skeptical of nutritional supplement treatment, but at this point I'm willing to try waving a dead chicken over it. I googled it and found what appeared to be a credible report of peer-reviewed research that indicates Vitamin D deficiency diminishes the quality of sleep.
For several months I've had a low-sugar, low-cholesterol diet. I'm pretty sure that diet is low in Vitamin D as well. It's been a cold winter here in the Northern Hemisphere; I haven't had much of the exposure to the Sun that causes our skin to make Vitamin D.
I stopped at the drugstore on the way to work just now and bought some 2000 IU Vitamin D3 tablets. I also got Vitamin B12. The article also recommended Vitamin B5 but the store didn't carry it. I took my first doses when I stopped at Peet's for a coffee.
A while back I complained to my witch doctor that I often slept all day, that no amount of sleep made me feel rested. In response he prescribed the antidepressant Welbutrin. It's working partially, in that, if I didn't have to get up, I would sleep until noon.
My present contract has a long commute. I don't have a key to the office. To work a full day I need to get out of bed at 7:00 AM. It is uncommon that I manage to do that.
I just bought a Mac Mini. Soon I should be able to work from home, but even so it's not going to work if I'm sleeping all the time, especially if that sleep is not restful.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Friday February 03 2017, @07:57PM
Hope it works. I sleep a lot as well, especially in winter. There's generally no hard in taking most supplements and a few other benefits have correlated to vitamin D increases, including a lower cancer risk. Hope the contract is going well!
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday February 03 2017, @11:29PM
I found that taking my multi vitamin just before going to bed helped: when i took it in the morning, it seemed to make me not want to sleep at night.
Also, just recently my job hours changed by 30 minutes: i now have to get up 30 minutes earlier and ive found im really enjoying it. Getting up at 6am instead of 6:30 seems to be my best waking time.
Getting up at 6:30, i always felt tired. Get up at 6 and i seem to be able to function much better!
Don't know if any of this will help your situation, though.
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday February 04 2017, @02:59AM
for a while I was setting my alarm to 8:30. I didn't make it to work those days. I still feel bad when the alarm rings at 7:00 but at least I make it to work.
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(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday February 04 2017, @02:29AM
Surgery seems to have dealt with apnea for you, but what worked for me was simply sleeping on my side.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday February 04 2017, @05:13AM
Apparently sleep isn't your problem. Sleep is good.
I do have a sleep problem, and melatonin is my answer. 15 milligrams per night (skipping some days to recalibrate natural brain chemistry) may seem excessive, but it works great. Though others here won't agree. Melatonin is a good substitute for psychotropic drugs, the ones that give you a lobotomy and will one day give you tardive dyskenisia and make you snap.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 04 2017, @08:30AM
Blue light before bedtime screws with melatonin metabolism.
Another trick for those who use a video screen right up to bedtime is to use an app to shift the spectrum with time of day.
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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday February 04 2017, @04:50PM
I do use F.lux, which is pretty rad (and makes me feel warm when it transitions to night mode). However, that alone doesn't help enough to get me good sleep.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Sunday February 05 2017, @09:13AM
Yellow goggles are another option for creating yellowness.
And to state the obvious, lots of people take caffeine when they want to be wakeful.
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