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Are You A Napper?

Discussion in 'Not Sure Where it Goes' started by Joy Martin, Mar 10, 2024.

  1. Krystal Shay

    Krystal Shay Very Well-Known Member
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    Very rarely do I nap. I have a hard time sleeping at night so I try to avoid naps.
     
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    Occasionally I have an unintentional nap, but I don't make a habit of it. I usually feel worse after a nap.
     
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    Yes, in fact sometimes too much so- I think
     
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    My gummies have the real thing in them.However I take a very small dose,and try to skip a few times without taking. It is legal in all but 6 states and aside from pain and sleep the only reason I have need to take.
     
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    I don't voluntarily take naps, but sometimes without warning I'll just pass out in my chair.
     
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  6. Jenna Parnellson

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    I take naps whenever I feel like it, without burdening myself with someone else's concepts of what I "should" do. Sometimes the naps are short, but often I take them for hours. Or I don't nap at all that day.

    Bottom line: I sleep when I'm tired, for as long as I need to.
     
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  7. Joy Martin

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    Could be too, that I'm not getting enough NP Thyroid med...I cut back some yrs back as the price went nuts and now I'm thinking it's caught up with me. So much is iinvolved in thyroid health,,,,sleep issues, depression, fatigue and 60 more issues.....I'm being hit with some depression now too.....So the thyroid issue hit me......

    I've also taken desiccated thyroid support since 2002. No synthroid stuff. j
     
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  8. Bobby Cole

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    I take 10mg of melatonin and still get up between 0300-0430 every morning.
    Although I’m not in the workforce any longer, I still work at doing whatever has to be done whether it’s repairing something at our home or one of the rentals or for whomever wants my help.
    Added to that, I love going to the gym and normally work out heavy (as opposed to going through the motions) which means that I probably work out with more weight in an hour than most people lift in a week.

    All that said, if I feel like kicking back in my vibrating easy chair one or two times a day, throwing on the heated eye pads and snoozing for 15 minutes to a half hour, that’s what I do without one bit of guilt attached to it.
    I worked all my life thus far and if I want to nap, I earned the right to do so.
    Simple.
     
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  9. Jenna Parnellson

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    Right. Heck, even if you didn't earn the right, you can still nap. We're old, most of us are retired, and we're adult people who can nap if we want to!
     
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  10. Bobby Cole

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    Workin’ for the man every night and day.
    But I never lost one minute of sleep, worrying bout the way things might have been……..
     
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    I feel the same about my regular sleep pattern; I am a night owl so I stay up regularly until 2 a.m. or so. Then I usually get up around 9. Some people are just horrified by that but seriously... who CARES? I was a slave to the alarm clock for over 30 years so I will do as I please in the time that is left.

    Oh, and I also take 10 mg of melatonin. When I was in cancer treatment, I learned this...

    Is melatonin a tumor suppressor?

    Melatonin can also induce hyperacetylation at other sites on the chromatin, resulting in suppression of tumor cell proliferation and apoptosis [79]. This effect probably involves activation of the MT1 receptor [80] -- NIH.gov
     
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  12. Bobby Cole

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    Just think.
    Napping is fairly healthy for a senior to do.

    It is often said that such-and-such went to bed and died in their sleep.
    Now, it may have happened but I never hear about someone dying in their nap
    ergo ….taking a nap is safer than taking a sleep.
     
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    I may have mentioned this about my "Need to want to sleep" and I sleep good all night but can nap so easy during the day....>Anyway, the house call doc was here and she agreed to let me UP my thyroid med as I lowered it due to the rising price..

    Sleep, depression, fatigue, lack of motivation CAN all be a HYPO T dsyfunction.,

    Granted, we are all UNIQUE, but thyroid health is Criticsal...
     
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