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[adslmax]

I have suffered sleepless since last xmas. Only average 2 hours sleep every days and mostly awake for 22 hours. Is this normal for my own health reason?

[renluop]

Max This is not Medikitz. See your doc!

[burakkucat]

Only average 2 hours sleep every days and mostly awake for 22 hours. Is this normal for my own health reason?

No, that's abnormal. Do as ren has suggested . . . see your GP.

[niemand]

If you have been sleeping so little I am astonished you are able to write this.

You should seek urgent medical assistance.

[renluop]

I  am not sure that we are aware of the sleep, we've actually had. Some nights I've thought I'd been awake for hours, only to see that those hours were minutes, or those sleeping minutes we're in reality hours. For me the solution can be either to turn on the light, or go downstairs to read for a while, then go back to bed; not always though.

Still, Max, see the GP!

[Alex Atkin UK]

Its why I got a smartwatch, I discovered as long as I had 30 minutes or more of deep sleep, I'm not too bad.

Unfortunately I also discovered I have an allergic reaction to wearing a watch for long periods.

With less than 7-8 hours sleep, I usually feel incredibly ill.

[Weaver]

Doc will give you something to sort you out. Mrs Thatcher claimed to need only a few hours sleep, iirc? I wouldn’t be unduly worried though.

[adslmax]

Got doctor appointment next week. Thanks everyone.

[burakkucat]

Mrs Thatcher claimed to need in a few hours sleep, iirc?

Approximately four hours, I believe.

[Weaver]

Feel snoozy soon. Like me all the time, in fact.

[sevenlayermuddle]

Its why I got a smartwatch, I discovered as long as I had 30 minutes or more of deep sleep, I'm not too bad.

How can a smartwatch possibly measure sleep, unless it has sensors embedded in the brain?  I’m not a neuroscientist, but my understanding is that detection of sleep involves a lot more than ‘lying still with steady pulse’.

Personally, I sometimes think I have been unable to sleep for hours, only to be confronted with evidence that I’ve actually been asleep.   In other words, perhaps, my sleeplessness is simply a recurring dream?

[Alex Atkin UK]

Mrs Thatcher claimed to need only a few hours sleep, iirc?

Yet she was such a rational woman. 

[niemand]

She was very, very rational. May not have agreed with her rationale but it was clear for all to see.

[renluop]

From another thread:

You are welcome. But please do not obsess over those values.

Well, max, there's good advice to you. Lie back in that bed, and dream of something other than FTTC, G Fast and FTTP!

[Alex Atkin UK]

She was very, very rational. May not have agreed with her rationale but it was clear for all to see.

Not sure I'd agree that waging war on the working classes was rational.  But then I'm not sure I believe the 4 hour sleep story either.