sleep disorder affects the quality of your brain!
Sleep and sleep-related problems play a role in a large number of human
disorders and affect almost every field of medicine. For example,
problems like stroke and asthma attacks tend to occur more frequently
during the night and early morning, perhaps due to changes in hormones,
heart rate, and other characteristics associated with sleep. Sleep also
affects some kinds of epilepsy in complex ways. REM sleep seems to help
prevent seizures that begin in one part of the brain from spreading to
other brain regions, while deep sleep may promote the spread of these
seizures. Sleep deprivation also triggers seizures in people with some
types of epilepsy.....
http://www.medical-health-care-information.com/Health-living/sleep/index.asp
.... and Sleeping problems are common in many other disorders as well,
including Alzheimer's disease, stroke, cancer, and head injury. These
sleeping problems may arise from changes in the brain regions and
neurotransmitters that control sleep, or from the drugs used to control
symptoms of other disorders. In patients who are hospitalized or who
receive round-the-clock care, treatment schedules or hospital routines
also may disrupt sleep. The old joke about a patient being awakened by
a nurse so he could take a sleeping pill contains a grain of truth.
Once sleeping problems develop, they can add to a person's impairment
and cause confusion, frustration, or depression. Patients who are
unable to sleep also notice pain more and may increase their requests
for pain medication. Better management of sleeping problems in people
who have other disorders could improve these patients' health and
quality of life.
Post by ChristianI've tried all of those and yes I have bi-polar.
That's why I'm just going crazy because I can stay up long enough that I
start getting paranoid and thinking things are going on that aren't. I
watch allot of news to get by, but the only real things that work are
addictive and my doctors supervisors won't allow him to continue with giving
them to me. I am probably going to change to a different clinic but I ran
into this group and figured maybe someone knew something different. I've
been strugling with bi-polar for over twenty years and am so tired of the
crap. I had everything worked out when I was with the same doctor for 13
years and then he died and I have had to start all over with showing them
the negative reactions of the medications rather then me just telling them
what works.
cpw
Post by Nom dePlumePost by ChristianI've got the doctors stumped. I have reactions to all the
anti-psychotics and lithium makes me feel really weak and sick the only
real thing that has helped is Valium and the doctors don't want to give
it to me. I was on Xanax for two years and was able to function and
right now I can't leave the house, can't sleep, and get extremely
paranoid. I can get to the point of hearing and seeing things when I go
to long without sleep and I don't know what I can do and either do the
doctors.
Do you have bipolar disorder? You don't say, but I'm guessing you do,
since you are posting to a bipolar newsgroup.
There are many mood stabilizers otehr than lithium. Have you tried
Depakote, Lamictal, Topomax, Tegretol, or any of the others? These seem
like the obvious choices to me.
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