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...nap about twice a week are 48 percent less likely than others to face serious heart illnesses
Washington Post ^ | 21 Sept 2019 | Linda Searing

Posted on 09/21/2019 9:10:45 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

The findings, published in the journal Heart, were based on nearly 3,500 adults, ages 35 to 75, who were tracked for about five years

Napping late in the day also is not recommended because it can mar nighttime sleeping.

more than a third of Americans regularly get too little sleep. That can lead to chronic health problems

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To: mowowie

The E.R. will give you a brain scan. I’m 72 and on medicare, so maybe you can’t do it, but I would look into it.

I’ve had two “near syncope” events in the last four years and I went to the E.R. both times. I suddenly felt extremely dizzy while fixing dinner, had to hold on the the sink to keep from going down.

My wife can no longer drive so she had our daughter drive in and she took us to the E.R. I got a chest XRAY that shows a calcified aorta and a CT scan that shows mild cerebral atrophy (unchanged in four years thank God).

The doctors wrote it off to fatigue and lack of sleep.

During the event, I saw patterns of small glittery triangles in my field of vision, my arms and legs were extremely fatigued, my arms and chest were itching, and it felt like someone had caned my abdominal muscles.


21 posted on 09/21/2019 12:42:41 PM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: piasa

You make sense.
I have been drinking 3 cans of mountain dew every night.
I always had a problem with and always avoided caffeine and i imagine the sugar doesn’t help either.
It was stupid to start drinking my fav bev circa 1985 again.
Just this week i finally switched to flavored seltzer water as a possible remedy.I’m hoping that will help.

Here i go again..already i’m way past my bedtime.. i’ll be lucky to get 5 hours sleep.
It’s so hard to go to bed so early on such beautiful days especially weekends when the normals are all up and about..

Thank you for you advice


22 posted on 09/21/2019 1:08:47 PM PDT by mowowie
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23 posted on 09/21/2019 8:11:59 PM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

Very nice!


24 posted on 09/22/2019 7:41:51 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (one hal)
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