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Low-quality sleep increases glaucoma risk, new study suggests
- treeman79 4y agoIf you snore badly. Wake up sweaty. Heart racing. Or bad sleep in general. Waking up exhausted. Get a sleep study. You may have sleep apnea. Which is your body starving for air. A cpap can be a dramatic life changing device.
- cochne 4y agoI have a lot of that, unfortunately sleep study (even in lab) didn’t surface anything.
- ianai 4y agoDefinitely feels like modernity fights quality sleep way too much.
- euroderf 4y agoCPAP was too invasive for me. So the therapist prescribed a dental appliance that is nothing more complicated than forcing your lower jaw to jut out a bit. Worked great!
- dd36 4y agoOr they have a common root?
- jasfi 4y agoGood catch. If they did it would be stress.
- xeromal 4y agoI've always feared I'd have some repercussions for my bad sleep. I suffer from night terrors and sleepwalking. I've regimented myself down to very specific sleep patterns where I turn off my lights, take a shower, and abstain from any phone or screen. I sleep about 7 hours, but if you look at a smartwatch, I end up walking around incessantly about every hour. It's super annoying.
- mwint 4y agoAre you unaware of the walking around unless you look at the watch? Just curious, it’s a big ambiguous from the wording.
- xeromal 4y agoSo I knew I slept walk because I would wake up probably a few times a month just standing in a doorway or something. But after monitoring my watch, I realized I pretty much do it every night because it tracks me as walking. Sometimes I don't walk, but I am awake according to its motion sensors and my heart rate
- etrautmann 4y agoThat's wild - I'm sorry to hear that, it sounds unnerving. I wonder if there are other passive ways to prevent sleepwalking - like a weighted blanket to make it harder for your sleepy self to get out of bed? Pardon my naivete...
- xeromal 4y agoDon't apologize at all. I honestly don't think there's a way besides tying myself down. I did make my bedroom lock which apparently I'm unable to figure out in my sleepwalking phase
- tsol 4y agoMaybe you need to put on a suit covered in bells. If you lay still it'll be quiet, but if you wake up the incessant jingling will wake you up. Lol I don't know why but I feel like there has to be some simple but clever way to deal with this. Not a cure, but something that let's you have some control over it. Maybe if you can't sleep walk all over the place you'll naturally just go back to bed. Like I wonder if you maybe moved a dresser in front of your bedroom door after entering, if then your sleepwalking self would be trapped in your bedroom and get bored. I really have no idea how this works but I'm curious
- hamasho 4y agoI know low-quality sleep is the cause of a lot of diseases and bad daytime conditions, and still, it's difficult to have high-quality sleep. It takes a long time to fall asleep when I go to bed, and I'm so bored I can't stop browsing social media, it always ends up with 2~5 hours! Recently I bought a Kitchen Safe (time locking container) to force me to stop using my phone. And it works! I can't do anything other than sleep. Still, it takes a lot of time to fall asleep, but if I continue this, I believe I can become a good sleeper! (It helps to reduce phone time in general, I recommend it to anyone.)
- Tempest1981 4y agoTry listening to a non-exciting podcast, played at 75% speed. It works for me. Lex Fridman's voice/tempo is perfect. The Overcast app can be set to turn off after N minutes.
- beermonster 4y agoWhy We Sleep by Matthew Walker audiobook makes me fall asleep by chapter 2.
- Tempest1981 4y agoMeditation audio can also work, but for me, the gaps of silence are too long, and my brain starts churning/processing. (I know the point of meditation is to overcome this.)
- rubyskills 4y agoYou should check out Andrew Huberman's videos about sleep on YouTube. I found that strategies to get my core body temperature down towards the evening, combined with morning light exposure and exercising daily have made a huge difference for me. I'm tired at night and just want to go to sleep. I have a lot more tips, but most of it you can get from Huberman.
- hamasho 4y ago
- RandomWorker 4y agoWhelp, kids are worth it though ;)
- Trouble_007 4y agoFYI: Association of sleep behaviour and pattern with the risk of glaucoma: a prospective cohort study in the UK Biobank : https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/11/e063676 https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/11/e063676
- thunkshift1 4y agoHow does one measure sleep quality?