The main thing wrong with you, is you're not getting enough sleep. Your body is telling you loud and clear. Sleep more
this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2023
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Yeah, I know when I get complete sleep I'm fine. But it just sucks that other people can go without much sleep and be fine but I can't. It's like that actually prevents me from being awake for as many hours at night than other people can.
No they can't. Lack of sleep is always detrimental to a person's health. It just manifests in different ways.
*Cries in insomnia
It's your body. You can experiment. Check your electrolyte levels, check your blood pressure levels. When people don't get enough sleep their blood pressure tends to go up, they tend to have more cortisol flowing in their bodies. So if your core metrics are on the high side, that might be enough to push you in a headache territory.
check if you have sleep apnea. it can fuck your sleep hard without you ever noticing. ask someone if you snore loudly or hold your breath when you sleep as those are typical signs
People that don't get enough sleep still suffer from it, they just might not be getting headaches.
Keep yourself hydrated and get more sleep. Take care of yourself.
Everybody is different. When I don't get enough sleep I have a hard time thinking, and I get these uncontrollable movements. Didn't used to have any issues at all.
When I get a lack of sleep (...), I often have a splitting headache the next day
This connection is typical for migraine.
Also, many people sleep with a too thick pillow, and this could also cause headaches because of tensions. Try a thin one, or only a little towel instead of a pillow.
I'm interested in your pillow thickness comment. Do you have any more information about that, like a study?
I used to sleep on a very thin pillow since I was a stomach sleeper. As I've aged, I end up on my side and back more, and I had to get a thicker pillow.
I've always wondered what stomach sleepers do with their face. Like don't you end up being unable to breathe or rubbing your nose and mouth on the blankets? Also is your neck not crooked to compensate for that?
I wish I were able to sleep on stomach or back so that I could sleep symmetrically, I think it would be better for me if I could fall asleep that way. But the sleep just doesn't come... unless I'm sideways in a fetal position, and only on one side (left side).
When I was a kid, I somehow managed to breathe through my pillow. Or I'd prop up my forehead on the pillow and rest my chin on the mattress which left enough room to breathe.
Now as an adult, when I do sleep on my stomach, my head is turned to the side. My neck is horribly crooked, but that doesn't seem to bother me. In fact, when I fall asleep, I apparently roll onto my back, and tilt my head to the side (perpendicular to the rest of my body). My wife has told me I'm a creepy sleeper since it looks like my neck is broken or is at an absurd angle. I somehow never wake up with neck pain.
Get yourself one of these. Adustable to however thick you like just by adjusting the water.
Can that handle a cat's claw?
Probably not.
Dammit
I actually don't use any pillow (I just prefer lying flat on a mattress), could that be a problem?
Some people don't require the same amount of sleep to function. I sometimes go weeks only sleeping 4-6 hours a night without being too drained, while my wife is exhausted if she gets less than 8 hours of sleep for a single night. Also, some people need a similar sleep schedule nightly while others can be sleep deprived on the weekdays and make up for the deficit on the weekends.
I did read about a long-sleeper gene and a short-sleeper gene, which made me curious if I could be a long-sleeper
Yeah, I believe my wife read an article relating to this. I'm squarely in the short-sleeper side of things.
The long-term effects of sleep deprivation are devastating, dementia being the main problem. Check out some of the research on the subject.
While this sounds scary, I don't know what I am supposed to do to address the issue. I can't force myself to sleep an extra 3-4 hours a night. I just wake up and can't fall back asleep.
Plus, telling us that a lack of sleep is going to be doom to us later doesn't help us sleep at night, right?
I am on a cycle right now where I can't sleep without ambien and 300mcg melatonin. I've struggled with falling and/or staying asleep my whole life. My brain will calm down some and ill taper off of the ambien again at some point.
Besides the long term health, i am just not a pleasure to be around if i run on no sleep.
Different people need different amounts of sleep to function and be healthy, but you can't "make up for the deficit". If your body needs 8 hours per day and you sleep for 4 hours one night and 12 the next, your body doesn't net it out. (Just using 8 hours as an example, it could be different)
From my understanding, the science for and against this is still being researched. I know it's not a 1:1 "catch-up" period, but I believe that you can somewhat balance your sleep debt over the course of several days to some effectiveness.
Another possibility — are you drinking enough water? I will wake up with a migraine if I’m dehydrated. Unfortunately, as you age and the bladder loses resiliency, it becomes a balance of enough water to not get dehydrated, but not so much that you’re waking up at 2 am to pee.
You might be overly sensitive to caffeine. I can't have caffeine after, say, 1pm, or it will make my sleep restless. Maybe try no caffeine after breakfast.
Another possibility is maybe you'd do better working nights. Then you sleep during the day.
I never drink caffeine, maybe I should :)
Appreciate your advice, but sometimes I'd actually rather go on little sleep if I were able to function properly. The pursuit of actually getting proper sleep is sort of a whole different ball game hahah, but sometimes I'd rather not try to if that makes sense, so that I have more hours to get things done.
For a decent chunk of my early 20s i had to take amitriptyline a couple of hours before bedtime to prevent migraines. It also makes you sleep on cloud 9. I was on call at nights and there was no snapping out of the sleep pull, thats the only scenario I can think that it may not help.
Talk to a doctor about it. I have had a couple of brain scans and don't have anything up there that looks bad. It just happens to some people.
I'm sorry you were going through that, I take it by your use of past tense you no longer have that issue? If so I don't suppose you know what could have fixed it? Hope you're doing better now :)
Yeah I think it went away at the start of my 30s. Definitely glad it's not a worry anymore.
I can still get stress or dehydration headaches, but no constant small one that breaks through to eye stabbing with my heartbeat.
I have heard it is common for them to go away by 30s.
Very interesting, I really would like to know more about why that happens. A few people here said their migraines went away as they got older.
It's the way your body uses to tell you to sleep more. I usually have a stomach ache