Kathy, well where is this sleep study located? We'd love to take it
if it was close! We've had sleep issues since we both were three
years old. I don't know if you're tired of beating your brain up with
pharmaceuticals, but we both surely are! We want to get! off! these!
meds! They only work half the time anyway. They don't really address
the problem.
This is Reeva now typing for myself. I was diagnosed with
fibromyalgia about seven months ago, and I'm in megapain all the
time. Sleep does not come easy for me, even before the fibromyalgia
presented itself eighteen years ago.
Mari has severe sleep apnea, and who knows when that came on the
scene? She uses a Bi-Pap machine, which is a regular C-Pap machine
with oxygen added with a big huge concentrator in the bedroom which
turns regular room air into oxygen. They discovered during her sleep
study that her oxygen levels were dropping dangerously low whenever
she slept. She snores like an eighteen-wheeler as well.
LOVE AND MANY, MANY BLESSINGS,
Reeva Parry and MariJean.
At 07:30 AM 6/28/06 -0400, Kathy Du Bois said:
>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
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