Re: Am I an anomaly here?

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no_dop………. that was a thought voiced by my sleep doctor at FIRST visit – my issues that appear to be ADD could have been caused by the sleep issues. they have since decided the ADD was severe and stood on its own, HOWEVER, I still had sleep issues some connected, and some not, that needed dealing with. The nice thing – they are working together for a total solution. I like that……… sort of like installing an electric water heater – you need a plumber and an electrician to work together at solving the problem.

I, too, “appear” to me to be getting worse as I age. On one hand, it makes sense as some chemical productions decline with age naturally, and if one is already short on something, a decline won’t help any! (or am I more aware? Maybe it’s a combination!)

I read many years about a sleep study with animals. I regarded it as cruel, and still do, but it was with cats. They used cats as it was SIMPLE. When a cat enters REM, it retracts and relaxes the muscles that control the claws. They took advantage of that and put the cats on an island in a pool of water. The only place to sleep was a steep incline covered with carpet. As long at the cats held on, they could sleep uninterrupted, but when REM kicked in, the claws retracted and the cats fell into water. the cats grew irritable (so would I, the dumb dipstick researchers! DUH!) and seemed forgetful, among a list of other symptoms making them appear almost ADD-like thinking of it today.

It proved the importance of REM sleep, etc. HOWEVER, I’d love to find those researchers and do the SAME to them, but make it ICE WATER.

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