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Problems with One-hour Time Changes in Spring and Fall
What do you think of this statement? "If you have difficulty adjusting to the one-hour time changes in the spring and fall, there is a 90% probability you have sleep-disordered breathing."
I am always looking for a 2x4 to whack the undiagnosed over the head with and maybe this will go in my arsenal.
On my Facebook account, I see several people have posted that they have problems adjusting. Looking at their avatars, none of them have well-developed jaws and all of them need to ratchet their BMIs down several notches.
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Permalink Reply by Becca on
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I have problems adjusting to the daylight savings time in the spring because I lose and hour and I use a CPAP.. it is due to not going to bed early enough and then getting up earlier.
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Permalink Reply by Banyon on
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I made it up.
I believe people who have wide open airways have little to no problem with changing their schedule by one hour.
Does it make sense that a person who is perfectly healthy would have a problem with a one-hour time shift? Even on the first day if they miss one hour of sleep?
I think a healthy sleeper can easily short himself an hour of sleep and hardly feel it the next day.
If you are used to getting up at 6:00 a.m. and have to get up one day at 5:00 a.m. to attend an early meeting is that such a deal for a healthy sleeper? I think not.
I also think people who like to "sleep in" on days off are highly suspect for SDB.
These are my opinions developed by observation of myself, friends with known SDB, and friends who have multiple symptoms but are in denial. I have also discussed this with fellow CPAPers and they understand that they had a lot of these problems before they were diagnosed and commenced treatment.
If I were a doctor and a patient told me they were very tired or sleepy because of the time change, I would pull my 21-question SDB-screening questionnaire out and start scoring them. Actually if I were a GP, I would make sure everyone of my patients went through this screening on the initial visit and every few years thereafter. (If they tested positive I would send them for an unlicensed home study.:):):))
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Permalink Reply by RockRpsgt on
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Well I have to say that I agree with just about everything that you said. Just about. It makes sense that a person with SBD would have problems adjusting to the time change. I also agree that if you normally sleep in that you are probably carrying some sleep debt for one reason or another. I would even expand your statement to include all sleep disorders, and not just SBDs. I understand that 85% of all sleep patients have apnea. I also understand that SBDs cause the body to degrade faster than just bad sleep does. Wiht that said I believe that a large demographic of bad sleepers have been underdiagnosed.
We had a meeting tonight Banyon. Since January first my sleep program has screened over 1500 people that normally would not have been screened for apnea. These people included inpatients at hospitals, referrals from doctors, or nurses, and varias people at our educational booths, and forums. Of that 1500 we had over 700 people show positive signs for apnea. We put over 400 hundred people through sleep studies that would not have normally been done. Just to let you know, some of those studies were unlicensed home studies.
Jerk LOL;)
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Permalink Reply by 99 on
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what time is the appointment with the doctor 6.00AM and those who miss the appointment must come in for further evaluation the following week at the same time
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In delayed sleep phase syndrome, the internal biological clock runs longer than the normal 24-hour cycle, resulting in a desire to go to sleep later and wake up later. The plan of action? Resetting Merbaum's clock through the use of light therapy: daily morning exposure to a countertop light box.
If a child is having a hard time adapting to the spring forward, Durmer says, there are things parents can do for their children, aside from keeping a regular schedule of sleep-wake.
"Give them more light exposure in the day as soon as they wake up, and dim the lights in the evening. Try to get rid of the light around bedtime," he said. "That way they can start getting the new cue for sleep onset."
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99 said:very bright lights on the back of the knees reset our sence of time
99, That has pretty much been debunked - http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/articles/08_02/bright_knees.shtml
Besides, the guys are still laughing at me for wearing those to the office.
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