Heart Attack Support Group
Heart attack is a serious, sudden heart condition usually characterized by varying degrees of chest pain or discomfort, weakness, sweating, nausea, vomiting, and arrhythmias, sometimes causing loss of consciousness. It occurs when the blood supply to a part of the heart is interrupted, causing death and scarring of the local heart tissue.
So before my heart attack on 1/28/14, I never knew how critical "good sleep" was for health! I would push myself and stay up late for no good reason and after my heart attack I learned that sleeping poorly can actually contribute to the build-up of plaques in your arteries?!!!
Now knowing this fact, my target goal for nightly sleep is 7 hours but I rarely hit that but know if I really want to improve w/ my health; I'D BETTER IMPROVE IN THIS SOON!
In your opinion, how many nightly hours of sleep do you think as surviving heart attack patients it is that we should get and just out of curiosity, how many hours sleep per night do you average?
I recently bought a fitness tracker called, Jawbone Up24, which is so cool in how it tracks my nightly sleep and how many times I got up in the night and also how many hours "light sleep" I got and "deep sleep" I got. It's helping me at least see how poorly I sleep and it's helping me try and get closer to that 7 hours goal that I set for myself. Or...do you all think as heart attack survivors we really should be trying to get a minimum more like EIGHT HOURS SLEEP instead? How important do you consider sleep to really be? Do you subscribe to that old saying, "Sleep Is for Wimps?!!" Thanks. - Carl
Now knowing this fact, my target goal for nightly sleep is 7 hours but I rarely hit that but know if I really want to improve w/ my health; I'D BETTER IMPROVE IN THIS SOON!
In your opinion, how many nightly hours of sleep do you think as surviving heart attack patients it is that we should get and just out of curiosity, how many hours sleep per night do you average?
I recently bought a fitness tracker called, Jawbone Up24, which is so cool in how it tracks my nightly sleep and how many times I got up in the night and also how many hours "light sleep" I got and "deep sleep" I got. It's helping me at least see how poorly I sleep and it's helping me try and get closer to that 7 hours goal that I set for myself. Or...do you all think as heart attack survivors we really should be trying to get a minimum more like EIGHT HOURS SLEEP instead? How important do you consider sleep to really be? Do you subscribe to that old saying, "Sleep Is for Wimps?!!" Thanks. - Carl
taken about an hour before bed. Also told me not to watch tv or be on
the computer within 2 hours of bed or it messes up your bodys sleep
rhythm by suppressing your natural melatonin.Also, don't read in bed.
Sit up to read until youre tired then go to bed...trains your brain that
being in bed means time to go to sleep.