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I thought I always felt tired. Until I got a sleep mask, ear plugs, stopped eating 4 hours before bed, slept in a cold room, and went to bed at the same time every night. I found my body just adjusted itself back to its natural rhythm. Curious how many of the contestants surveyed did exactly this and still had trouble with their sleep. Edit: diet and general lifestyle changes (such as going to the gym and being outsi…
For me it was sleep apnea. It was undiagnosed and I have lived most of my life basically exhausted. Once I was diagnosed, thanks to a CPAP recall/shortage during the pandemic I couldn’t get a CPAP machine so used a custom fit oral appliance which took a few days to get used to, but once I did I woke up one day, having done nothing very different from any other day, feeling fresher than I can ever remember feeling. It…
It can be incredibly hard to get a diagnosis. Even when you are shown to have it, you can find out that insurance uses an entirely different metric and, therefore, will refuse to pay. I don't get any sleep as a result and there's not a thing I can do from what it seems.
Put your health before saving money.
I am feeling tired all the time. My hand / legs go numb when I am in same position for more than 10 mins or so. I feel lot of weird stuff when I am asleep. Thyroid, Vitamin D, b12, diabetes, iron levels, brain MRI all came up normal. So my neuro suggested seeing a psychiatrist (I was depressed during Covid) which also didn't show any improvement. I have GERD though. Anyone in the similar boat? I feel like I might a p…
Same boat, I'm a 32 software developer and gamer, always spent most of the day on a computer, but since last year I'm very tired every day, I'm a father and doctors dismissed me as having some sort of midlife crisis or changes in my life even though from my perspective, I've never been happier, the only thing bringing me down is being tired. I sometimes feel dizzy when standing up, way more often and stronger than th…
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Same boat, I'm a 32 software developer and gamer, always spent most of the day on a computer, but since last year I'm very tired every day, I'm a father and doctors dismissed me as having some sort of midlife crisis or changes in my life even though from my perspective, I've never been happier, the only thing bringing me down is being tired. I sometimes feel dizzy when standing up, way more often and stronger than th…
I'm sure you've looked into this, but getting dizzy while standing up is a symptom of anemia. Best of luck to you!
Thanks, it seems a lot of people have similar symptoms, hope some of the causes get better treatments, but also more recognition, feels awful going to work every day like this, and doctors not prescribing time off work because symptoms are to broad/vague and no life threatening illness is found. If I didn't have a family to provide for, I'd just stop working right now.
As we age slow-wave sleep degrades. This is the stage of glymphatic clearing the article describes. This decrease in slow-wave sleep begins in our late 30s and is linked to Alzheimer's, Diabetes, weakened immune function and more. We've been working on this for a few years through auditory stimulation during sleep. Published peer reviewed research using our stimulation protocol is at https://soundmind.co/research
When will this be released? What can we do in the interim?
We're in the process of getting Ethics approval in Australia (which is a legal requirement to provide units for our trial).
Discussions with manufacturers has begun.
We're also collaborating with some universities and providing units for them to run their own trials.
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Anecdotal here but last year I changed my diet radically and completely swept away my daily tiredness and cyclical cluster headaches. First year in 7 years without one. Largely I eat leafs and meats while keeping carbs down, keeping dairy low etc. It's not easy to make this adjustment but for me, where I was at physically I would try anything. Going to bed before the kids is for the birds. My primary doc gave me the…
I'm eating mostly carbs and dairy and it's not the first time I hear this kind of thing, so I'll work on this now, thanks! I had tried to do it at first but it was not easy to go from 100% carbs and dairy to 0% so I went back, but I'll have to commit to it.
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Did you have any issues with the device when you first got it? I've been using a cpap machine for a while, but it took me literally years before I could sleep through an entire night with it on. I've been thinking of either having surgery or going the oral appliance route this year.
I have been having serious issues getting used to it. What do you mean by surgery and oral appliance? Thanks.
For surgery, it really depends on your body and what the cause of the apneas are. In my case, it is _probably_ due to tonsils + a long(?) palette. An ENT told me I could have surgery to remove the tonsils and also shave down the palette, but I didn't go through with it because it sounded like a terrible recovery time and didn't have any guarantee it would actually fix the issue.
If you haven't already, it might be worth talking to an ENT (Ear Nose Throat) specialist that also deals with sleep apnea. The oral appliance definitely sounds like the less painful option though.
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Did you have any issues with the device when you first got it? I've been using a cpap machine for a while, but it took me literally years before I could sleep through an entire night with it on. I've been thinking of either having surgery or going the oral appliance route this year.
Not OP, but it took me a year of actively reading my machine data and changing settings to figure it out. Have you tried OSCAR?
I did also post to one of the apnea boards with data from it and they helped figure out better pressure settings for me which did help some.
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It can be incredibly hard to get a diagnosis. Even when you are shown to have it, you can find out that insurance uses an entirely different metric and, therefore, will refuse to pay. I don't get any sleep as a result and there's not a thing I can do from what it seems.
If it's sleep apnea, go to eBay and buy a CPAP for $100. It'll be the best $100 you spent.