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It seems that US long distance runner and 2012 Olympic hopeful Tera Moody (pictured at right)has been suffering from regular insomnia and sleep apnea, and has turned to our friend melatonin to help her get proper rest so she can deal with her training schedule.
Here’s a caption from the story at USA Today – click through here to read the rest.
Battling sleep problems since sixth grade, Moody has tried every trick to try to catch a good night’s rest. She’s visited sleeping clinics, cut down on caffeine and candy, stayed away from training after 1:30 p.m., listened to relaxation tapes and sipped soothing chamomile tea before turning out the lights.
Still, she wakes up.
“I don’t get stress fractures, I have really bad sleeping problems. It’s my biggest issue,” the 28-year-old said.
She’s reluctant to rely on prescription sleeping pills. She has before, heavily, but always woke up groggy. It’s not the way she wanted to feel for a grueling training run.
Instead, she’s taking natural supplements like melatonin to regulate her sleep clock.
“I still struggle with it quite a bit,” said Moody, who will pull out the prescription pills just in extreme sleeping emergencies.
Her inability to sleep only worsened when she attended the University of Colorado on a running scholarship.
For that, she attributes anxiety. She had a stellar high school career in St. Charles, Ill., and arrived at Colorado with lofty ambitions.
But she fought anorexia her first year with the Buffaloes, dropping 30 pounds in an effort to lower her time.
“I felt a lot of pressure to be really thin as a Division I athlete,” said Moody, who won the Big 12 outdoor title in the 10,000-meter race as a freshman in 2000. “But I realized I wasn’t going to be able to continue the way I wanted to if I was doing that. Luckily, I caught it early.”
Although Moody got help, she said she struggled with self-confidence throughout her college career.
That, in turn, affected her sleeping habits.
“Having anxiety surrounding sleep is a problem for me,” said Moody, who now lives in Colorado Springs. “I’ve struggled with it for so long that I associate night time with not being able to sleep.”
Following a visit to a sleep clinic in 2005, Moody was diagnosed with sleep apnea, a disorder characterized by pauses in breathing during sleep. Moody wore a device to regulate her breathing at night.
“Looked like Darth Vader,” she said, smiling.
When that wasn’t working, Moody went to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., for further tests. There, doctors told her to ditch the sleeping pills, which at the time she was frequently taking.
That’s helped — a lot. Although she sleeps less now, she feels much more rejuvenated.
“I just feel a lot better,” said Moody, who reads when she can’t sleep.
After her career at Colorado concluded, Moody was thinking about giving running a rest.
Earlier today Florida Congressman Gus Bilirakis (a Republican, in case you were wondering) introduced House Resolution 384, which called for raising awareness and public support for people that are suffering from sleep apnea.
Sleep Apnea is a sleeping disorder which is caused by having your breathing interrupted while you are sleeping. Sufferers from sleep apnea generally end up being sleepy and tired during the day as they get inadequate rest during their night’s sleep. Those with “Obstructive” sleep apnea are generally loud snorers and restless sleepers, while those suffering from “central” sleep apnea have an imbalance in their brain’s respiratory control center while sleeping and suffer regular breathing interruptions.
Of course, sleep apnea affects millions of people around the world, so it’s great that the Congressman is working to get a bit more recognition for those suffering from it. Here’s the summary of the Resolution he introduced:
HRES 384 Recognizing the importance of increased awareness of sleep apnea, and for other purposes.
- Whereas sleep apnea is a common condition that affects more than 12,000,000 Americans, according to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health;
- Whereas there are several types of sleep apnea that cause people with this condition to repeatedly stop breathing throughout the night, often many times;
- Whereas sleep apnea is a chronic condition that disrupts sleep three or more nights each week, leading to excessive daytime sleepiness;
- Whereas sleep apnea becomes more common with age, and 1 in 10 people over the age of 65 suffers from it;
- Whereas sleep apnea is more common in men than women, and more than half of the people with sleep apnea are overweight;
- Whereas sleep apnea can strike anyone, at any age, at any time, including children;
- Whereas untreated sleep apnea can lead to high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, obesity, and diabetes;
- Whereas untreated sleep apnea can also increase the chance of having work-related or driving accidents and adversely impact the quality of life of those suffering from this condition in other ways;
- Whereas lifestyle changes, mouthpieces, surgery, and/or breathing devices can successfully treat sleep apnea in many people; and
- Whereas the lack of public awareness of this serious condition leads to many undiagnosed and untreated cases: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives–
(1) supports raising public awareness of sleep apnea; and
(2) encourages all Americans to educate themselves and others about the consequences of sleep apnea and its potential treatments.
If you’re suffering from sleep apnea, stay tuned to this blog as we’ll be reviewing a new product tomorrow that looks to assist sleep apnea sufferers naturally without invasive surgeries or other harmful means.
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