With So much talk surrounding sleep cycles and sleeping patterns. I wonder how important sleep is to our well being and nature. Notions such as“Darker outlook for night owls” Suggest hitting the sack early may be good for your mental health. How does one define Mental health. How many of us have laid awake in bed while our bodies “Physical Aspect” are tired and wanting sleep.

Further studies show that “Early bird gets the worm, night owl gets … no sex?” So if you and your partner’s sleep cycles are out of sync you might be in an asexual relationship. Yet,  I see many couples who have such dichotomy. More so, if you are anything like me, you are a couple who  “Can’t Sleep While Sharing A Bed?” According to the National Sleep Foundation, 23% of which admit to sleeping in separate beds and 20% of all couples claim they have less sex and/or have lost interest in sex because they were too sleepy.

So in one way or another, we are either not sleeping at the right time, sleeping too little or too much, sleeping alone or with someone- “I have always felt that sleep was depriving me of something. Either greater, or lesser, but something”

Who would have thought sleeping could be so complicated- I leave you with a poem from my favorite poet. A good reflection on SLEEP!

If you cant sleep tonight,
My dear Soul,
What do you think will happen?
It the entire world is covered with blossoms
you have labored to plant,

What do you think will happen?

If life’s elixir, once hidden in the dark,
now fills dessert and town,

What do you think will happen?

If because your generosity and love
a few human beings find there lives,

What do you think will happen?

If you pour an entire jar of joyous wine
on the head of already drunk,

What do you think will happen?

GO, friend; bestow love even on your enemies.
If you touch their hearts,

What do you think will happen?

Rumi-

Fatal familial insomnia is a sleeping disorder that has genetic origins. This condition is so rare that only 28 families in the whole wide world have this sleeping disorder. There is a fifty percent chance that the offspring of parents with the dominant gene carrying the fatal familial insomnia would inherit the disorder. Because it is rare, cure for the condition is still unknown. Manifestations of symptoms would occur from middle to late adulthood, which is usually from 30 years to 60 years old. The length of the manifestations of this sleeping disorder would last for 7 to 18 months. Fatal familial insomnia is composed of four stages. The first stage usually lasts for about four months. Symptoms that occur during the first stage would include severe sleeplessness, panic attacks, and some phobias. As for the second stage, it can happen for five months. Symptoms for the second stage would include increasing panic attacks that are accompanied by hallucinations. After that, the person would enter the third stage with much worse symptoms usually lasting for three months. Difficulty in sleeping is so severe that it can cause extreme weight loss. The final fourth stage would last for six months or more with the patient experiencing dementia. The patient would also become eventually mute and not responsive.

The manifestations of fatal familial insomnia are very similar to that of the Alzheimer’s disease. However, the difference lies in the progression of the symptoms because in fatal familial insomnia, symptoms progress at a rapid rate. It is very prevalent that dementia in Alzheimer’s disease have slow progression and may take years.

The sad thing about fatal familial insomnia is that no therapy can cure the sickness. Insomnia can’t also be treated by any medications. People in the medical field are often out of answers when it comes to the cure of the disease and as why it has a fatal prognosis. However, it doesn’t stop the researchers to study the genetic composition of people with fatal familial insomnia and to come up with a cure.

The treatment for this sleeping disorder is greatly dependent on the medical researchers who dedicate their time to study and examine everything that is related to the disorder. Testing the genes of families with such disorder is also necessary to determine the commonalities in the structures and composition of their genes. The trends and occurrences of the disease is also studied to determine how it is passed on to the next generation.

Because fatal familial insomnia is very rare, the attention is not too focused on the condition itself unlike other sleeping disorders. This is also the reason why not all doctors would be able to handle such conditions and come up with the right diagnosis. More attention is given to various sleeping disorders that affect a greater population than this sleeping disorder that only affects a few.

With the progression of technology, people have faith that someday this sleeping disorder will be cured. However, as for the moment, the goal of care to patients suffering this condition is to improve the quality of life and provide all the comfort that they need.

I want to share with you snoring solutions everybody can do. A lot of people want to fix this problem, but they are about various solutions such as surgery and think that it is a bit extreme. People may have seen the mouthguard that are available on television and assume that this might not work for them. There are a lot of different ways of dealing with this problem and sometimes it just doesn’t work for everyone. The reason that all of them don’t necessarily work for everyone is that they don’t attack the root cause of the problem. This is one of going to share with you the snoring solutions everybody can do.

The first solution I want to share with you is a really easy one to apply. If you just roll onto your side as you sleep, loose tissue in your throat will move out of the airway. The problem is staying on your side the whole night. What you can do is sew a tennis ball into the back of a T-shirt and wear that to bed. Basically when you try to roll onto your back in the middle of the night, the tennis ball will be in the way and you’ll just go back onto your site again.

Another one of the snoring solutions everybody can do is a chin strap. This is another thing that is relatively easy for a person to do. It holds the mouth closed as you sleep. This actually causes the throat to expand in size and make it next to impossible to snore.

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