Anybody know of any sites with good info on sleep disorders?

[monkeyboy]

For the last few months, I've been waking up every nite at around 2-3 in the a.m., feeling restless as hell. I can't get back to sleep unless I get up out of bed, walk around the living room for a few minutes until I'm fully awake, and then go back to bed. In other words, if I lay in bed and try to ignore it, I can't go back to sleep. If I get up and do a "re-set", I'm fine. Izzat weird, or what?

[TrogL]

1. google on apnea

[Droopy]

2. Try to Google it

I'm sure that will turn up a few for you.

Maybe I should be checking with you because I've had the opposite problem- I can't stay awake. I bet I'm sleeping ten hours a day on average. Some days as much as twelve.

[MrPrax]

3. Here's some...

Your's sounds temporary...
I worked graveyards for 8 years and am still not normal...
Pray you never have to go on a nightshift for extended periods...

But here...
Sleep Thieves by Stanley Coren is a great resource; extensive study all about sleep, disorders and remedies...

or check the recource list at
http://www.sleepnet.com/

or their listing of Sleep Clinics
http://www.sleepnet.com/slplabs.htm

[monkeyboy]

5. Thanks much (and I got you beat on weird shifts)

I used to work in a factory where the schedule went like this:

You worked 7 days of day shift and got 1 day off, then

you worked 7 days of swing shift and got 2 days off, then

you worked 7 days of graveyards and got 5 days off.

It was designed to placate those workers who thought they were getting screwed by having to work graveyard shift all the time. Eventually they did away with it because some of the older guys were dropping dead from heart attacks.

[MrPrax]

6. Whoa...that's inhuman

The body would never get a proper rymthym back with that schedule...not to mention even if there was NO shifts...one day off in 14?

Did Charles Dickens write about this place?

It is amazing just how much power the Bosses have...I mean destroying people and cutting into their family time so wantonly...
If it paid dividends, I could understand it.
But it doesn't...EU workers on the average work less and still maintain equal or greater productivity
That really is the dirty little secret...it would be nice to cut loose the oppression of the Protestant work ethic and enter the 21st century sometime...

[Lindacooks]

4. Try this:

Sleep Disorders at About.com:

http://sleepdisorders.about.com/