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ChelleWMCN	My Neurologist Requested This Poll		Lead	[-]
Regular Visitor Posts: 428 04/25/08 3:43 PM	Remove this ad How much sleep do you get per night? (Total Votes: 29) - Closed Eight hours or more - no problem sleeping. (9 / 31%) Six to eight hours per night - up and down a few times. (14 / 48.3%) Four to six hours per night - have memorized every info-mercial on late night TV. (6 / 20.7%) Less than four hours - Sleep? Who needs sleep? (0 / 0%)
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mistermaxime		#1	[url]	[-]
Regular Visitor Posts: 232 04/25/08 6:02 PM	I get 8 and more but I cant say that I have no problems sleeping. I know for a fact that I sleepwalk but I have no clue of how often it happens.
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darkprince86		#2	[url]	[-]
Regular Visitor Posts: 351 04/25/08 6:25 PM	I sleep 6+ and wake up maybe once during the night so i guess im lucky in that respect. Just curious, why has your neuro requested this poll?
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SopuliSusie		#3	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1496 04/25/08 10:01 PM Administrator	I go through phases of more disturbed sleep and then less disturbed sleep. Without enough sleep I am totally destroyed, so my doctor has me taking melatonin and hydroxyzine (which is supposed to make you less groggy than benadryl), to help me fall asleep and stay asleep. Need to cheer yourself up? Watch the Kitty Cat Dance!
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megamousefart		#4	[url]	[-]
Regular Visitor Posts: 21 04/26/08 1:23 AM	My sleep patterns are all messed up. Sometimes I sleep for twelve hours and sometimes I sleep for two or four.
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pocanut		#5	[url]	[-]
Regular Visitor Posts: 652 04/26/08 4:29 AM	i am unfunctional without at least 8 hours sleep. i wake up maybe once in the night and sometimes struggle to go back but usually i'd say i sleep well.
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shannon3fh		#6	[url]	[-]
Regular Visitor Posts: 449 04/26/08 8:30 AM	well i have an infant so sleep is hard to come by. i dont have any problems sleeping besides that...i could sleep for 10 hrs straight if i had the choice.
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jruddy		#7	[url]	[-]
Regular Visitor Posts: 413 04/26/08 10:01 AM	I can't make a blanket statement. Many nights I sleep 6-8 hours - up a few times but I've suffered from insomnia for years. Once I wake up in the morning, that's usually it, even if it's 5:30am... :S... Many nights I get a good 8-9 hours sleep... Some nights it's more like 4 hours... though these are less often since going on Topamax and citalopram - I think one of them helps me fall asleep better - either that or VS is mentally tiring me out somehow. I too seem to go through phases, periods of disturbed sleep followed by periods of decent sleep. If it gets really bad I just use one of my cyclobenzaprine's and it seems to straighten me out for a couple of days.
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ChelleWMCN		#8	[url]	[-]
Regular Visitor Posts: 428 04/26/08 12:18 PM	Remove this ad darkprince86 wrote: I sleep 6+ and wake up maybe once during the night so i guess im lucky in that respect. Just curious, why has your neuro requested this poll? She is trying to see if the visual distortion is exacerbated by lack of sleep or if the severity is unaffected. I personally sleep 4-6 hours per night on average. She is having me take sleeping meds to see if that dampens the symptoms.
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jruddy		#9	[url]	[-]
Regular Visitor Posts: 413 04/26/08 12:21 PM	My symptoms do seem worse if I don't get a good night sleep.
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juliedeeinthesnow		#10	[url]	[-]
Regular Visitor Posts: 397 04/26/08 3:52 PM	I never had a sleep problem until I got sick. I could sleep 8 hours+ with no problem. After I started getting sick sleep was a major issue (2-4 hours a night even with Ambien) and the lack of sleep made the symptoms worse. After surgery1 (IV anesthesia) I was able to get 3-4 hours on my own with out meds. After surgery 2 (general anesthesia) I was able to return to about 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 hours sleep per night without meds, and I count myself lucky. I sleep well, I just don't sleep much.
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ksomething		#11	[url]	[-]
Registered User Posts: 5010 04/27/08 6:38 AM	There is anecdotal evidence that lack of sleep / tiredness may trigger a transitory worsening of the intensity of persistent aura symptoms (see http://www.migraine-aura.org/content/e27891/e27265/e42285/e52203/e52274/index_en.html ).
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guruforever		#12	[url]	[-]
Registered User Posts: 31 04/27/08 4:15 PM	It takes me a long time to sleep but once I am there lol I can do 10+ hours
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Wendi Triplet Mom		#13	[url]	[-]
Regular Visitor Posts: 821 04/27/08 7:52 PM	I always have a hard time falling asleep, but once asleep I could sleep a lot longer than I do... if the triplets would allow me to! Some nights the "hard time falling asleep" part is most of the night. I also sleep MUCH better during the day than at night, and usually can fall right to sleep during the day. Too bad the rest of the world is not on my internal clock! Wendi Edit to add: May be interesting... when I take a nap during the day to catch up on some sleep after those really bad nights... as I wake up from the nap - that is when I notice the grids the most. Last Edited By: Wendi Triplet Mom 04/27/08 7:55 PM. Edited 1 time.
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indicar		#14	[url]	[-]
Regular Visitor Posts: 116 04/28/08 5:01 AM	Just an observation i would like to make. at the time that my VS simptoms came on my diabeties was out of control (ie not managed). As such a side effect was that I would wake up 3 or 4 times a night to use the toilet and was always aware that I hadn't had much sleep. Now that I haver better diabetic control I sleep through the night and get around 8 hours sleep. If I get less sleep or sleep for longer then my symptoms are worse the next day. However an exception to this was that last summer I had a really bad cold and I sleep for most of a day and night and for the 3 or 4 days afterwards there was a significant reduction in my symptoms (at least my perseption of the symptoms).
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Sarah A		#15	[url]	[-]
Regular Visitor Posts: 229 05/05/08 9:09 AM	Remove this ad I get about 6-8 hrs a night. I think I sleep pretty well, but ever since the VS I have more nightmares, sweat in my sleep, and clench my jaw. So it's often a disturbed sleep, but if I don't get at least 6 hours my VS goes haywire and I'm likely to have a vertigo attack.
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How much sleep do you get per night? (Total Votes: 29) - Closed