Rock-a-by-Crohnie

[BWS1982]

http://health.msn.com/health-topics...lepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100219913&GT1=31013

I recall a lot of people here, if not most, stated they get less than 8 hours. I get 8 or more 99% of nights, it's one of my top priorities, but that comes from prior to Crohns, from the fitness enthusiast in me. I've read a lot of the benefits of proper sleep, and this link above covers most of the major ones. Not to mention, my GI says the mice he experiments on who have colitis, have reduced symptoms compared to their peers who are sleep deprived (again, not a pleasant thought, but he does it in the name of science and IBD-relief.)


There's these too (this first one below talks about the body repairing and immune system optimization in regards to sleep):

http://health.msn.com/health-topics/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100164755&GT1=31036

http://health.msn.com/health-topics/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100204550

 

[Guest]

awww Benson, i thought i was going to find a video of you singing us a lullabye

it is so true about getting a decent night's sleep, i kinda don't most nights, partly due to the Crohns and consequent inability to calm my worries enough to sleep.. but also the computer is both my friend and my enemy. it is something to turn to when sleep is absent, but it also makes time speed up and i find myself looking at 2am more often than not.

i feel, and look, so much better when i've managed a few good nights of sleep in a row. food for thought for us all, thanks Benson. :thumright:

 

[katiesue1506]

I refuse to get less than 8 a night. I'm usually laying in bed by 11 and wake up no earlier than 8. I've found it makes me a much happier person as well.

 

[soupdragon69]

I try to go for 8hrs a night but tend to be up anywhere between 4-6hrs. Usually 6am the days I dont have to get up for work!! LOL

Great thread though Benson.

 

[Crohns08]

I always try to get enough sleep... Most nights unintentionally, lol. I used to get up early, but now I usually sleep in til 9:00 a.m. The earliest I have woken up since I have been diagnosed is 8:00 a.m.

I usually goto bed around 11:00 - 11:30... Sometimes midnight. So I get about 9-10 hours of sleep. Thank God for 504's.

 

[RHOV]

i try to go to bed by 10:30 every night. depending on how much homework i have and how much i procrastinate, it's usually a little later. i get up a 5:30.

i catch up on the weekends by sleeping to *gasp* 9:30!!! Makes it really hard to get up on Monday morning.

 

[BWS1982]

If anything, I oversleep some nights, but I am just as tired after 12 hours of sleep as I am at 8 or 9 most times. It's very frustrating, because I am certain that my meds or Crohns is fatiguing me well past my normal threshold, could be the Imuran, or it could be the Crohns or blood loss, but it's annoying. I can't have too much caffeine either, because we all know what that'll do to the bowels (and my thoughts race the most whilst caffeinated).