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Just What I Need To Read During a Bout of Insomnia

Lauren

I’m dead:

Scientists have long known that sleep disorders, such as sleep apnea, narcolepsy and chronic insomnia, can lead to serious health problems, and that difficulty sleeping may be a red flag for a serious illness. But the first clues that otherwise healthy people who do not get enough sleep or who shift their sleep schedules because of work, family or lifestyle may be endangering their health emerged from large epidemiological studies that found people who slept the least appeared to be significantly more likely to die.

Wonderful.

15 thoughts on Just What I Need To Read During a Bout of Insomnia

  1. So I am doomed too??? Hey maybe we can blame the water here in Indiana… I know a lot of people who don’t get to sleep much.

  2. sorry to post again, but that should read something like, “Well I am doomed too!”

    I can’t even write because I am tired…

  3. Have you tried a homeopathic med called Calms Forte, made by Hyland? It can’t hurt you, isn’t addictive, doesn’t have any narcotic effect but it will make you sleep.

  5. Eek. It’s 1 AM. Maybe I’ll try giving sleep one more go instead of reading how much harm doing otherwise may cause.

  7. people who slept the least appeared to be significantly more likely to die

    Oh cheese. Chances of death if you do not sleep well: 100%. Chances of death if you do sleep well: 100%. Carry on.

  8. That flame war didn’t knock you out? As soon as the “beauty contest” insults got whipped out, my eyelids started to close. Pretty much any group of goobers sitting around ranking women that they’ll never even get close to pretty much has that effect on me.

  10. I too have chronic insomnia – but it can’t be the Indiana water, since I had it for years before I moved here. So unless MD, NY, OR, MA, SC, TN, AZ, and IA all also have crappy water, that can’t be it.

  11. Wow, my usual bed time is 3am. I hope that’s not TOO bad. I mean, it’s still night, right?

    In honor of Twisty, I just want to say “Mandos, Mandos, Mandos.”

  12. Well, I’m going to die then, too, since I have to make myself go to sleep at a “normal” time (like say midnight).

    But like David said, we’re just as likely to die if we do sleep. None of this makes any sense as I went to bed at 1am only to be woken up 5 hours later by the dog next door whose owners left out of state, leaving her chained outside. It rained all day yesterday and last night. She has her own house, but it’s too small and she kept getting stuck on the tree logs and such disabling her ability to get to her dry doghouse. So I brought her into my house today. At 6 this morning.

  13. Please.

    If you run the right tests and manipulate your data, you could draw a link between farting and blindness. This is how much we know about sleep…NOTHING. We can’t even tell you why you sleep. No difinitive physiological/neurological link has not been established between sleep and its effects on the human body. Those guys are basically guessing. I read the article. I sleep between 3-5 hours per night, sometimes less and have been doing it for as long as I can remember. I’m 150lbs soaking wet, run 25-30 miles per week and am in great health. Remember, doctors once concluded, after studies, that smoking wasn’t really that bad for you.

  14. Oh, please. I’m a born night owl and canNOT find a job in my field that lets me come in later than 8 a.m. I don’t fall asleep before about midnight usually. WTF am I supposed to do?

    I hate studies like that. “Just go to bed earlier!” doesn’t work when you’re not TIRED early in the evening, and in fact, late in the evening is the most awake you’ve felt all day.

    Not that I’m bitter!

  15. “Just go to bed earlier!” doesn’t work when you’re not TIRED early in the evening, and in fact, late in the evening is the most awake you’ve felt all day.

    Praise baby Jeebus, tell me about it.

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