Posted by azalea on October 30, 2008, at 10:05:54
In reply to bad sleep- sleep fragmentation and Slow Wave Sle, posted by rotem on October 30, 2008, at 8:49:11
Have you tried Provigil? It is FDA-approved for obstructive sleep apnea/hypopnea. Provigil would likely help with the tiredness. If you're more awake during the day, you might sleep better at night. Just a thought.
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> I'm 38 female. I have a very unrefreshing sleep- I sleep 8 hours and wake up tires.
> the reasons are
> 1. sleep disturb breathing and sleep hypopnea-apnea which causes sleep fragmentation
> 2. too low Slow-Wave-Sleep (SWS) and bad sleep maintenance (or high sleep fragmentation) .
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> Also I suffer fro chrinuc hypotension. I always has a tendency toward systemic vasodilation, but in the last 5 years, it became very exaggerated.
> So I have symptoms of vasodilation- chronic (not orthostatic) very low blood pressure (85/50) , nasal congestion (and sleep apnea) , increased exhaled nitric oxide and more (to those who know the subject..).
> This exaggeration has many reasons, but I thinks it also because of many years of SSRI + shorts experiences with trazadone and more drugs. and also maybe depletion of adrenergic tonus?
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> So here are my question to you:
> 1.which drugs can decrease sleep fragmentation and increase SWS?
> 2.Do you know what can cause vasodilation, at the "root", and how to heal this?
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