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Insomnia is a symptom, rather than a disease, and is characterized by inadequate quantity or quality of sleep. People with insomnia complain of difficulty falling or staying asleep, which results in significant impairment of daytime functioning. Insomnia is categorized as transient (shorter than one week), short-term (one to three weeks) or chronic (longer than three...

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Hope it is worth it

SlayerEnraged
SlayerEnraged
I have an Appointment next Thursday. From the advice of members on here, I didn't try to do sleep restriction therapy on my own before my appointment. I thought my sleep was going to get better after a few promising signs but no improvement since then. I only have about a 20% success rate of sleeping correctly for 7 or more hours. Lately I sleep lightly from Midnight till about 3 and I wake up and read for 20 or so mins and then go back to bed and sleep normally till my alarm goes off at 8. My body seems unwilling to adapt and fall correctly earlier than it is. Personally I think that I have an extremely delayed sleep phase syndrome but why ever I can't sleep at correct hours is ridiculous. I'm 19 years old and have big dark spots under my eyes and have unhealthy look eyes...totally read and blood shot. Plus my mom said this is the last try of the year with this because I still have to get my wisdom teeth out and back x-rayed. So after this appointment I'm on my own. I really hope it was worth what I've gone through the last few weeks not trying to fix the problem myself so "I won't make their job more difficult".
deleted_user
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I really hope that everything goes well for you with your appointment. I'm sorry to hear that this is the last try of the year.. That is very unfortunate. ): I hope that you get some good results and answers and generally get some help. I'm throwing out some awesome vibes to ya! (: -eHugs-
SlayerEnraged
SlayerEnraged
Well Guys I slept good last night. I don't go to church but the church I would go to always asks me to play on their church ball team cause they know I'm good. We had basketball practice last night around 9 p.m and it lasted till like 10:30 p.m or so. It wasn't excruciating and I didn't try like I would in a game but there were moments where I was breathing hard and overall I broke a sweat. There really seems to be no particular pattern as to when I sleep well and although I do very intense workouts in the afternoon, maybe if I add in something like jogging (but don't push my self to the limit but don't make it be a walk in the park) then maybe I'll sleep better. I honestly don't know if it making me physically tired was part of the reason or if its because it literally made me forget about the rest of the day and only focused on the task of basketball. But who knows, I'll give my idea a try but there really aren't any identified patterns of my sleeping.

Thanks for the wishes guys. Also, yes Morpheus I pick up an oximeter next Wednesday, sleep with it that night and the next morning I have an appointment with a sleep specialist. I'm not sure if I'll have other appointments after that one or not. Unless I magically start sleeping better the rest of this week, I really hope my correct night doesn't happen on that wednesday night!

On a kind of random note, I had a fasting test done and looked at my nutrition information for one of my classes. It didn't say below a certain point was bad but I suspect all of my numbers are way to low. Most people have too high cholesterol, triglycerides, etc but it listed a value and below as good but I was WAY below that value. The only thing I was a little high on was blood pressure. It wasn't horrible but I was in the pre hypertension category. Poor sleep increases blood pressure so I'm not sure if my semi high blood pressure was related to sleeping poor lately or because of being stressed in general.

I haven't really applied certain suggestions from scholarly articles but since I'm a university student, I have access to online scholarly resources that normal people have to pay to get. So I'm found some scholarly articles and books with information on CBT, Reframing, Actual Ebooks on stress management (although I probably won't have time to read them at this time), and a little other information. Now that I've gathered the information I plan on slowly applying it/practicing it. It also so happens I'm taking a sports psychology class and learning about stress and anxiety right now. We haven't yet but I'm pretty sure we're going to start practicing hypnosis, visualization/imagery, and relaxation before the semester is over.