Hi Group,

I am wondering about this whole Non 24 business.  Here is my 
circumstance.  I was born with partial sight, but by the age of 12, I 
lost it all.  I then lost both eyes due to the general deterioration 
caused by congenital, sub acute, co angular glaucoma (now there's a 
mouthful for you!)  So from age 22, I have absolutely no light 
perception.  Add to this, the fact that for most of my productive life, 
I have been a night club performer--with the oddest of odd hours.  
Usually, in the old days, my day would start at about 1:00 PM at which 
time I would arise, clean up, grab a light breakfast/lunch/brunch 
(whatever you would call that meal at that hour) and then get ready for 
'work,' as a musician/performer in a night club.  This time of 
functionality was to say the least flexible and chaotic at the 
worst--the worst times out weighing the better times.  Figuring in 
travel times, lodging times, disputing with owners/agents/whoever is 
trying to stick the big one up you know where, the life style, while 
interesting, exciting and quite fun for the most part, was to say the 
least a conflagration of chaos--always irregular, and seldom normal.

Having described all of the above, I can honestly say, that I never had 
anything remotely approaching the symptoms of this so-called Non 24.  
You would think that with my total lack of any vision--even light 
perception--and the total Topsy Turfy lifestyle, that I should be a 
prime candidate.  In fact, I found out that if I could simply sneak in 
about 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep within a 24 hour period, that I 
would be fine.  Yet now of days, I am bombarded by pharmaceutical ads 
describing this horrific illness plaguing mostly, but not exclusively 
blind folks.  I just don't get it.  I am tempted to believe that the 
pharmaceutical industry is just finding a new way to hook people on an 
expensive medication--which I believe is somewhat related to the same 
type of medication used by people suffering from such illnesses as 
epilepsy and convulsive disorders.

I know some people swear that this is a real illness and that it has 
almost ruined their lives until they got treatment, but for me I guess 
it's hard to relate to under the circumstances.  This is just my 
unscientific two cents--for what it's worht!

On 5/16/2014 9:55 PM, Bob, K8LR wrote:
> Gery,
>
> I used to have trouble waking up in the middle of the night and it caused
> real problems for me at work cause at times, I would be very tired.
> When I first heard about Melatonin as a supplement, I tried it right away
> and it worked for me.  A 100 count bottle costs around $5.00 and I have no
> side effects.  I've been taking 5 millagrams of Melatonin nightly for over
> 20 years and I answered all of those surveys that I kept getting about
> sleeplessness stating that I didn't have a problem because after starting
> Melatonin, my problem went away.  before you try Hetlioz, try Melatonin, it
> only costs about $2.00 per month.
>
>
>
> Bob, K8LR, [log in to unmask]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gery Gaubert
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2014 3:35 PM
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> Subject: side effects
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> I saw them.  I'll either sleep or be dead I guess.  All medicines have more=
> side effects than benefits.  At least it seems that way at times.
>
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