I sleep so much! I never know if its the Meniere's, the hypothyroidism, my age (53) or just a bad habit. Thanks for sharing this blog, fishoinc. It brings up a really good topic I never thought to ask you all about. Does anyone else find they sleep a lot? I usually sleep 8 to 9 hours a night, sometimes more, and then take a looong nap in the afternoon. Anywhere from 2 to 3 hours. Does anyone think this is a part of fighting Meniere's symptoms?
Thanks,
Rebecca

Thanks, I am on one called "Living with Meniere's" Look into that one as well.

One thing I have found out while reading these posts for the last four or five months, is that everyone has different experiences with this disease, no two symptoms are the same for everyone. There are too many facets to MD to pin down any one symptom.
Personally, I never heard that extra sleep was associated with MD, but who knows? I take a Melatonin every night and sleep about 6 or 7 hours, hardly ever more than that. And being 83, I also nap during the day.
Of course, if you think the extra sleep is abnormal, check it out with your doctor.

Thanks for the post fishoinc...good one!

Claymom, On a normal day, I have a long time in bed at night but a bit restless. Then I have a short Nanny Nap in the afternoon. But as soon as I do too much or any stress sets in I'm very tired and can't keep my eyes open. So yes for me MD does cause tiredness. My ENT told me a lot has to do with the fact that we balance with our eyes, which is a large extra load on them. So overwork them...I'm tired.
God Bless
Daph

Here is a two little test you may want to consider that will help in understanding sleep patterns and if you maybe above normal.

First, take all your prescription and look them up on line, look at side effects and write down the med and the chance of drossiness. This will let you know if your sleep has to do with your prescriptions.

I have a sever sleep disorder so I am familiar with testing. There is a quick test called the Empworth Sleep scale, see
http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/epworth.html
To evaluate your score go to
http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/key.html
To understand more about this test go to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epworth_Sleepiness_Scale

If you have MD this will also effect your tiredness because the brain must work differently to perceive the world around you. This use to be automatic but not any longer.

Good luck and God bless!

Rich

Claymom:
I sleep as much as I can typically 10 hours a night and I'm still tired. I notice the fatigue is worse when I'm my symptoms are worse.

I TO FIND MD HAS CAUSE ME TO GET MORE TIRED, WE FIGHT ALL THESE FEELING ALL DAY, SO IT CAN WEAR YOU OUT, HUGS ,SHIRLEY

i need to sleep more because the MD re remission and daily tension on a frontal forhead and nausea did not help my body to relaxe after the first middle ear injection treatment..

I have live for years on very little sleep and gotten away with it. Now when I take a nap after work I don't know it I will wake up in an hour or the next morning. So I believe this thing causes you to want to sleep more. The difference now is you can't fight it. Falling asleep driving is the scariest part for me.
Kerry