Vicki,
         I finished up with my participation in the sleep study  at 
the beginning of the month and when I was done, so far, they had only 
had 750 people fill out the questionaire, and they're hoping for 
30,000, and I was the 50th person to do the 8 week in depth study and 
they were hoping for 240, so they still need many more 
participants.  I guess that that's why I'm pushing it.  I think that 
it will be a valuable study when it is done.  People who lose their 
sight later in life really have big sleep issues because melatonin is 
regulated through the eyes and blind people often have their 
melatonin production all out of wack because their eyes aren't 
functioning properly.  They want people who have problems to 
participate to see if there is a common thread as to why and they 
want people who don't have problems to take the survey and so forth 
to see if anything can be learned from the successful one to help 
those who aren't.  Part of the reason that your doctor hasn't been 
able to offer much help is because everything is a guess right now as 
to what will help and what won't.  I believe that the need for this 
study has come to the fore because, as many people live longer, loss 
of eye sight through diabetes and macular degeneration, not to 
mention cataracts, which almost everyone develops eventually has made 
sleep issues in the visually impaired, a more popular problem.
         Okay, I'm off my soapbox and I won't say anything more.
Kathy


At 10:37 PM 6/27/2006, you wrote:
>Kathy,
>
>Glad you did that sleep study.  I hope lots of people have been able to do it.
>
>Vicki
>