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Prescription Sleep Medicine
Supporting Your Neck and Back While in Bed
Posted by sleepyguy in Prescription Sleep Medicine, Sleep Disorder on April 16th, 2009
When you are sleeping, your bed is supposed to support your body, but you also need extra support for your head which is why you make use of a pillow. Keeping your knees and heap elevated can improve circulation which is really important for those with heart disease and diabetes.
What type of pillow is best?
For some people, a single pillow may not be enough whereas for others it may be too much. It is mostly a matter of preference and personal comfort that will help align your spine for a better nights rest; just make sure that your pillow works for you or it can have dire effects on your entire day.
Knee pillows and hot-dogs can help you sleep better.
It does not matter if you sleep on your back or on your side, elevating your knees is important for good circulation. Hot-dog pillows can raise your knees into a more comfortable position while body pillows can keep them from making contact with each other while sleeping on your side.
Bent steel!
Replacing the cheap mattress before the springs break and replacing the frame before it bends is important. Broken springs and bent bed frames can lead to an uncomfortable night’s rest which can affect your entire day.
Live a longer life through proper elevation.
When your knees and head are properly elevated, you increase your circulation as you sleep. This can help those suffering from diabetes and heart conditions or even those who have a family history of such conditions.
Stretching before bed?
Most people stretch before they get up in the morning, but if you also stretch before bed you can help your muscles and joints relax in preparation for a long night’s rest. You will notice a great difference once you start stretching before bed every night.
When you are able to have a more comfortable night’s rest and increase your blood circulation at the same time, you can slow down the effects of certain conditions such as diabetes and heart disease. This can quite literally add years to your life which makes doing this so much more important no matter who you are. Live life to the fullest by making sure that each and every single night you are as comfortable as possible; this is so your body can properly make repairs from the damage caused the day before.
Physical Effects of Sleep Deprivation
Posted by sleepyguy in Prescription Sleep Medicine, Sleep Disorder on April 16th, 2009
Sleep deprivation is incredibly common in today’s high stress world. And while most of us know that a lack of sleep makes you feel tired and sleepy, most people don’t understand the extent to which we are affected. There are many physical effects of sleep deprivation that can have significant consequences for your life, and it’s best that you understand them.
Not getting enough sleep doesn’t only make us feel sleepy, it also reduces our brain’s ability to function properly. Your ability to concentrate can be severely diminished, and your memory is weakened. If you’ve missed a significant amount of sleep, you may be walking around in a sort of daze, where everything seems foggy and your ability to think clearly and communicate effectively are drastically reduced. If you are experiencing these symptoms in your daily life on a regular basis, then insomnia or lack of rest may be a problem that you need to take steps to fix.
The above sleep deprivation effects may ruin your day, but there are also effects that can cause damage to your relationships or have longterm health effects. Lack of sleep makes us much less capable of managing stress, so all of life’s little annoyances start to seem like big problems and cause you to overreact. Nobody likes to be around an irritable person, so the people around you may start to resent you. Similarly, paranoia and self-doubt are common emotional effects of a lack of sleep. Again, nobody likes to be around a negative person who sees the world as predatorial. Don’t let a lack of sleep destroy your relationships with people you care about!
Longterm sleep deprivation can cause serious depression, heart disease, and hypertension. Weight gain may also occur as a result of hormonal imbalances. Without proper sleep, your immune system does not function properly and you are left open to a variety of infections. In fact, it has been proven through testing on animals that without sleep we will die! Insomniacs rarely reach the point of death of course, but it’s a good indication of how serious the physical effects of insufficient sleep are.
Stop Snoring Husbands
Posted by sleepyguy in Prescription Sleep Medicine, Sleep Disorder on April 16th, 2009
I wanted to take the time to talk to you about how to stop snoring husbands. It is typically the husband in a marriage that will be the one snoring and it is the wife that has to put up with it. Since the person snoring is not the victim of it, they’ll have no reason to want to fix the problem. There are specific things that can be done to deal with this problem. You need a solution that isn’t going to require much (if any) lifestyle change for your husband. They’re going to be less receptive to changing if it requires a huge change. I am going to show you how to stop snoring husbands.
The main reason that your husband is snoring is due to the fact that the airways in his throat are constricted. When there is less room for air to travel, air will start to move at a much faster speed and will have to vibrate past any loose tissue. This vibration is what leads to the sounds of snoring that you will end up hearing. If you want to solve this problem, then you have to learn to open up the airways and this can actually be a relatively easy thing to do.
If you want to stop snoring husbands, than you just need a jaw supporting headband. When the jaw is open, it puts pressure on the throat and causes it to constrict, but when it is closed the airways open up. The jaw supporter holds the mouth closed with a simple headband and snoring stops instantly.
Snoring Loud During Pregnancy
Posted by sleepyguy in Prescription Sleep Medicine, Sleep Disorder on April 16th, 2009
I wanted to talk to you about snoring loud during pregnancy. This is something that seems to happen to a lot of women and it usually surprised them. You may not have snored before, but now that you are pregnant you’re experiencing it. It is an odd thing to happen, but there is a perfectly good explanation for why this happening. It just comes down to volume. As you have a baby growing inside of you there is pressure on your other organs. There are ways of dealing with it that can be relatively easy. I’m going to talk to you about snoring loud during pregnancy.
The first thing you need to know is that there is a lot of pressure on your airways. Particularly the further down the esophagus you go. Basically what happens is that there is pressure on the tube. When air has to travel down a much smaller tube, it has to go a lot faster. As it goes faster, it will start to vibrate any sort of loose tissue that it encounters and that is what leads to the sounds of your snoring. The obvious solution to the problem is opening up the tube a little.
When it comes to snoring loud during pregnancy, there is a way to stop it. You may not be able to relieve the pressure created internally by being pregnant, but there is one external thing you can change; your jaw position. When your jaw is open (like it is when you sleep) it puts pressure on your throat and squeezes it. A jaw supporter is a headband that wraps around your chin and the top of your head. It holds the jaw closed, causing the airways to open up and you won’t snore. It’s easy to apply.
Two Tricks That Stop Snoring Fast
Posted by sleepyguy in Prescription Sleep Medicine, Sleep Disorder on April 16th, 2009
I wanted to share with you the two most popular tricks that you can use when it comes to stopping snoring fast. There are a lot of people driving their spouse crazy. It’s not you, as a snorer, that is has to deal with it. It’s the people around you that have to listen to it. It is your wife or husband that is lying awake in bed at 3 am because they just can’t fall back to sleep. It’s sad in a way and you really have to want to fix the problem. It’s not going to improve on its own. I’m going to share with you two tricks that stop snoring fast.
The first thing you can do to stop snoring is roll onto your side. When you’re on your back, gravity pulls loose tissue into the airways and cause vibrations that make the snoring sounds. By rolling onto your side, the tissue falls to the side and the airways open up. If you sew a tennis ball into the back of a shirt, you won’t sleep on your back. Anytime you try to roll onto your back, the ball will be in the way and you’ll go to your side.
Another newer trick that stops snoring fast is the jaw supporter. When your jaw is open, it puts pressure on the throat and squeezes it. The less room you have in your throat, the more vibration created. By simply closing your mouth, you’ll stop snoring. The jaw supporter is a headband that wraps around your jaw and head, to hold the jaw up.
Sleeping Well - How Chiropractic Care Can Help
Posted by sleepyguy in Prescription Sleep Medicine, Sleep Disorder on April 16th, 2009
Sleeping is a natural bodily function that we need in order to survive. It’s supposed to happen automatically. So why are Americans spending over $2 billion per year on sleeping aids?
Daily stress, poor eating habits, sedentary lifestyles and poor sleeping conditions are all contributing factors to the lack of a good night’s sleep.
Instead of closing our eyes and switching off our thought process, we worry about our day-to-day problems: Work, money, children and partners. Difficulties with any of these, or others, can keep us awake at night instead of letting us drift off when we need to. We replay arguments in our head, try to think of solutions to unsolvable problems, worry about the future while our sleeping time disappears without a trace.
Proper nutrition is one way to ensure a good night’s sleep. If you’re already eating a healthy, balanced diet, don’t blow it at the end of an evening by eating fatty, sugary snacks, or having a heavy meal shortly before bedtime. Instead of getting the rest it needs, your body will be up late running its digestive processes. Besides, late night food often gets stored as fat, rather than being processed correctly through your system. Do you work properly when you’re over-tired? Neither does your body.
A good exercise regime is another way to get the rest you need. When your body does strenuous exercise, it needs time to recuperate and prepare for the next round. No matter how much stress you may be facing on a daily basis, working your body hard creates a requirement that will let it go straight to sleep at night. Without the necessary physical activity during the day, your body won’t have as much physiological need for sleep. Plenty of exercise will triumph over a worried mind, any day (or night)!
Having a truly comfortable sleeping environment will not only help you fall asleep, but it will allow you to sleep well. Lumpy, bumpy, mushy and hard - if any of those adjectives can be applied to your mattress then it’s time to get a new one. A proper mattress will give your body the support it needs to keep your bones and joints in place but also allows itself to adjust to your particular body contours to keep your muscles from getting stiff.
Consult your chiropractor about your sleeping problems. Getting a soothing chiropractic adjustment can aid your body in getting its systems running properly, so they can switch off at bed time and get the rest they need for the coming day. Your chiropractor can also help you design a diet and exercise regimen that will help you along to a good, solid rest.
If you’re having trouble getting a good night’s sleep, you don’t need medication. Just take a few simple but important steps to ensure you get enough rest and you’ll be able to face each new day with a more positive outlook.
Stop Your Snoring Husband
Posted by sleepyguy in Prescription Sleep Medicine, Sleep Disorder on April 16th, 2009
There are a lot of people out there that are disturbed by someone snoring. Typically it is a wife that has to take the brunt of it, so I thought I would show you how to stop your snoring husband. The real problem with snoring is that the sufferer doesn’t usually want to do anything to change it. Even though they say they might want to fix it, they don’t really want to make any life changes that would lead to this happening. It is change that becomes the enemy to them because they want their life to be the same. This makes it harder to fix the problem, but I know of a way to stop your snoring husband.
There is one particular thing that you should notice about your husband when he snores; his jaw is loose or open. Your jaw is actually the root cause of snoring and by simple changing the position you can fix the problem. When the jaw is open, it puts pressure on the throat and causes it to contract. The less room that is in the throat, the more likely you’ll end up with snoring. If you just close your jaw, the airways open up and snoring is very difficult to do.
The real issue to stop your snoring husband is getting him to close his mouth all night long. There is a great thing called a jaw supporter. It’s basically a headband that wraps around the chin and the top of the head to hold it up. This is about the easiest thing a person can do to completely stop snoring. It works the first night you use it and it takes 5 seconds to put on.
Make a Person Stop Snoring
Posted by sleepyguy in Prescription Sleep Medicine, Sleep Disorder on April 16th, 2009
I wanted to talk to you about how you can make a person stop snoring. There are a lot of methods available to people to stop this problem, but there are a few reasons that no one ever fixes the problem. I think the main reason this is so is due to the fact that people who snore aren’t a victim. They’re sound asleep and don’t hear a thing. I think the other problem is that solutions to this problem aren’t conventional wisdom. Ask a person how to lose weight and they’ll have a general idea, whereas snoring they won’t have the first clue. That’s why I’m going to show you how to make a person stop snoring.
Most people that snore are actually lying on their back. This creates the perfect situation for the vibrations that lead to snoring. Loose tissue in your throat is pulled down by gravity and you end up getting vibrations when you breathe in. If you just roll onto your side, the tissue falls to the side and the airways open. The key to having a person sleep on their side all night is done by sewing a tennis ball into the back of a shirt. That means when they try to roll onto their back the tennis ball is in the way and they’ll go back on their side.
Another way to make a person stop snoring is through a jaw supporter. Most people that snore have their mouth open. Just open your mouth as you read. You should be able to feel the pressure it puts on your throat. This squeezes the throat and that makes vibration more likely. A simple jaw supporter, that holds your jaw in a closed position, will actually open up the airways and allows air to travel past anything that could vibrate.
How to Avoid Loud Snoring
Posted by sleepyguy in Prescription Sleep Medicine, Sleep Disorder on April 16th, 2009
I wanted to take the time to inform you on how to avoid loud snoring. There are a lot of people out there that snore. In fact, I think more people are snoring now, than ever before. This used to be a male problem, but more and more women are doing it now too. A lot of people don’t know what they have to do to fix the problem and the actual volume of the snoring is causing problem. The people around you that have to listen to it are probably going nuts. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to sleep and hearing a chainsaw in the bed next to you. I’m going to show you how to avoid loud snoring.
The sounds of snoring are created in the throat and it comes completely from your rhythmic breathing and throat size. Obviously you don’t snore when you’re awake, so something changes when you’re asleep. Your breathing patterns turn into a pattern and that leads to phenomenon known as resonance. That’s when you have vibrations that start vibrating more and more until the point of snoring sounds. But resonance will only happen if your throat is constricted to the point that air has to vibrate with loose tissue.
Here is how to avoid loud snoring; you need a jaw supporter. You can cause an expansion of your throat by simply closing your jaw. It takes pressure off your throat and gives more room for air to travel. The jaw supporter wraps around your chin and head to hold the jaw up, so you can’t snore. It’s actually quite ingenious. It will greatly reduce your sounds of snoring, if not completely curing it.
A Brief Introduction to Lucid Dreams Dissociation
Posted by sleepyguy in Prescription Sleep Medicine, Sleep Disorder on April 16th, 2009
Lucid dreams dissociation is the type of dreaming that many people want to have because it is thought of as fun or revealing or edifying.
Regular dissociation takes place for most people at least once or twice everyday. Dissociation is the trance like state that we slip into when we are bored. Daydreaming during a lecture is a classic example of normal dissociation. We are not asleep but our minds have wandered into another realm that we find more interesting than the reality immediately at hand. People have control over normal dissociation because they can snap back into reality at will.
This kind of dissociation is said to occur while the dreamer is aware that they are dreaming even though they are actually asleep. The can guide the dream in a similar way that a director directs a movie. Dreaming lucidly often starts as any other dream, however, the dreamer will become aware that they are dreaming at some point within the dream. Some people find themselves falling into these kind of dreams very suddenly without the usual transition from waking consciousness to sleeping consciousness. This ability is described as ‘wake initiated lucid dreaming’.
Experienced dreamers may be able to voluntarily initiate this state. They can do this with triggers. At the point of falling asleep, some dreamers regularly experience certain sensations such as the sense of falling which might induce a mild panic. In order to initiate them, they may use this falling sensation as a trigger to retain consciousness as the dream state ensues.
Practitioners of lucid dreaming do it for a variety of reasons. Some, simply for the fun of it. These dreams are said to be so life like but with a dimension that does not exist in everyday reality. Indeed, scientists have found that the nearest likeness is near-death and out-of-body experiences. Dreamers can see themselves floating or flying or entering places or time periods they wouldn’t normally have access to.
Lucid dreams dissociation has grown in popularity and a whole movement has emerged around the practice in recent years.