Sleep debt?

[symmit]

So, who believes in sleep debt? I'm a believer now!

I've been very stressed and working long hours the last two weeks, getting 7 hrs or less in bed and travelling lots and working. Hit bed, fall asleep straight away, wake up to alarm and suffer headaches all day.

So Saturday night I take some OTC sleep stuff (nytol), go to bed at 8:30 and get 12.5 hrs.

Last night my sleep is back to normal, no headache this morning, feel bright and breezy.

Graphs? See below, first is a typical night from the last week, second is the "long night" and third is last night. I interpret them as showing incomplete sleep cycles on the first one (look at the pulse graph..) the second one shows the recovery and multiple cycles, the third one shows a nice, relaxed night...

What do you all think?

[Tigers Fan]

QED

Hi symmit

I think you prove the point admirably!

Your Event Index tells the same story.

Now I'm retired, I can look back at the periods of working daft hours such as you have just been working and I can't help wondering, "What for?". I must have had reasons back then but damned if I can remember them now, or reasons that seem relevant to me now, anyway. It all seemed terribly important then and a big mistake now. Could I have taken things easier at work and enjoyed life more? From here, I just cannot see why not!

TF

[Berneta]

So True

Youth is wasted on the young--we should all have relaxed and enjoyed it more. But along came those "important" jobs --wives, husbands, children, important friends,, making a home, etc. Health was secondary--sleep was optional--and eating was glorious. Karma doesn't always wait til the next life. At 65-- It all comes back to bite you on the arse. LOL. xxBerneta

[Barely Awake]

The argument is convincing and once again your posting of graphs is certainly educating me.

Is there a food and drink factor? On the basis that when stressed one can either eat more or less, or snatch food whenever because of work etc.

I also assume you used the same mask throughout this period?

[symmit]

The argument is convincing and once again your posting of graphs is certainly educating me.

Is there a food and drink factor? On the basis that when stressed one can either eat more or less, or snatch food whenever because of work etc.

I also assume you used the same mask throughout this period?

Food and drink, and my nightly mask choice are related. Both short nights are with the sleepweaver, however the long night was with the Forma.

I'll pick the Forma based on the following criteria which I've found useful and effective for me.

Large evening meal? Forma.
Can't breathe clearly through either nostril? Forma.
Late night alcohol? Forma.
Dry chapped lip from where the hose rubs on it from the sleepweaver (it's only downfall for me) - Forma.

Only one nostril clear? Sleepweaver+menthol.
Both nostrils clear? Sleepweaver.

If I wake in the night and find myself mouth breathing, or can't relax and am having to concentrate to keep my mouth closed, or otherwise having problems I'll switch. And same if I wake in the night and the congestions gone I'll switch back to the sleepweaver.

[Sparticus]

There are many variables that I feel it cant be tied down to just one fact, my sleep is different if Im mouth breathing or nose breathing which position I sleep in and what kind of day it is when I go to bed, I sleep better during the day when theres more noise outside like a weekend lol