Sleep Problems

THE UNDIAGNOSED DISEASE SWEEPING AMERICA

Sleep is disturbed in a majority of Americans. Many people don't feel well and they see their physicians and share their tales of fatigue, decreased libido and a variety of aches and pains. After a trial of medication or many medications and an extensive and some times expensive work up of laboratory tests, x-rays, CT scans, MRI scans and other tests, your health care provider may tell you there is nothing wrong with you. That may be correct from their viewpoint but it sure isn't correct from your personal perspective. You know you're not crazy, but you are treated by some as though you may be. You have no disease, just symptoms. Most health care workers are taught to mask the symptoms with medication instead of trying to find the cause of the symptoms and correct them so the symptoms resolve.

I have found that most people with symptoms that are outside most physicians' diagnostic acumen, are often secondary to a long term sleep disturbance. You can blame your parents for this if you wish. Not for the way they raised you but for the genes they each contributed that make you, you. We are each a composite of our parents' gene pool. We are more complicated than we know. We each may have about 5,000 brain chemicals or neuro-transmitters. The experts are working on identifying about 500. We have medications that may allow us to adjust about 15. If you do the math and divide 15 by 5,000 to get the percentage of our knowledge, you'll find we know about 3/10 of 1 percent, which is almost nothing. But even with this little knowledge, we can help many people who have symptoms because they're not sleeping deeply or gaining what's termed restorative sleep. We've devised a test to help us help you solve your own problem by getting you back to restorative sleep cycles. The test was copyrighted by Dr. Nash in 1995. The test helps determine if you have a sleep disturbance, and if you do, which brain chemical can be adjusted to get you sleeping normally again. The test follows:

NASH SEROTONERGIC INDEX © 1995
1. Do you usually skip breakfast? Yes_____ No_____
2. Are you refreshed upon awakening from sleep in the morning? Yes_____No_____
3. Do you have outbursts of anger for no apparent reason? Yes_____No_____
4. Were your parents and/or grandparents heavy or daily users of alcohol or cigarettes? Yes_____ No_____
5. Do you have difficulty sleeping? Yes_____ No_____
6. Are you or your parents work-aholics? Yes_____ No_____
7. Do you prefer to be in control of most situations? Yes_____ No_____
8. Do you have morning stiffness if you don't sleep under more than one blanket at night? Yes_____ No_____
9. Does noise bother you? Yes_____ No_____
10. Do you feel really good about doing well in school, sports or your job? Yes_____ No_____
11. Do you eat before going to bed? Yes_____ No_____
12. Do you bite your fingernails? Yes_____ No_____
13. Are you a long distance runner or walker or do you do aerobic exercise regularly? Yes_____ No_____

Many people with headache and back pain often have sleep disturbances. We've found that deep sleep allows for muscle relaxation and the brain's production of it's own morphine-like painkillers, called endorphins. However, it appears that alcohol, barbiturates, benzodiazapines and narcotics may inhibit the brain's ability to make these painkillers even if deep sleep is achieved. Unfortunately many may even get into trouble with those drugs as often they are taken for pain. We help you regain normal sleep and become pain-free by not prescribing any addicting drugs. We do get you sleeping again and hopefully have you live happily ever after. We use anti-depressant medications to accomplish this. Anti-depressant medications can cross the blood brain barrier and can be used in the brain. Most medications cannot. Many doctors are taught that you are depressed when you have symptoms without disease. They are partially correct, as most depression is caused by a long-term sleep disturbance that progresses to cause a variety of symptoms. Instead of giving you psycho-babble, we merely correct your sleep disturbance and your symptoms resolve on their own.

Disturbed sleep causes many problems. If you're not making progress and your symptoms persist despite your doc's best efforts, come see us.


	THE UNDIAGNOSED DISEASE SWEEPING AMERICA Sleep is disturbed in a majority of Americans. Many people don't feel well and they see their physicians and share their tales of fatigue, decreased libido and a variety of aches and pains. After a trial of medication or many medications and an extensive and some times expensive work up of laboratory tests, x-rays, CT scans, MRI scans and other tests, your health care provider may tell you there is nothing wrong with you. That may be correct from their viewpoint but it sure isn't correct from your personal perspective. You know you're not crazy, but you are treated by some as though you may be. You have no disease, just symptoms. Most health care workers are taught to mask the symptoms with medication instead of trying to find the cause of the symptoms and correct them so the symptoms resolve. I have found that most people with symptoms that are outside most physicians' diagnostic acumen, are often secondary to a long term sleep disturbance. You can blame your parents for this if you wish. Not for the way they raised you but for the genes they each contributed that make you, you. We are each a composite of our parents' gene pool. We are more complicated than we know. We each may have about 5,000 brain chemicals or neuro-transmitters. The experts are working on identifying about 500. We have medications that may allow us to adjust about 15. If you do the math and divide 15 by 5,000 to get the percentage of our knowledge, you'll find we know about 3/10 of 1 percent, which is almost nothing. But even with this little knowledge, we can help many people who have symptoms because they're not sleeping deeply or gaining what's termed restorative sleep. We've devised a test to help us help you solve your own problem by getting you back to restorative sleep cycles. The test was copyrighted by Dr. Nash in 1995. The test helps determine if you have a sleep disturbance, and if you do, which brain chemical can be adjusted to get you sleeping normally again. The test follows: NASH SEROTONERGIC INDEX © 1995 1. Do you usually skip breakfast? Yes_____ No_____ 2. Are you refreshed upon awakening from sleep in the morning? Yes_____No_____ 3. Do you have outbursts of anger for no apparent reason? Yes_____No_____ 4. Were your parents and/or grandparents heavy or daily users of alcohol or cigarettes? Yes_____ No_____ 5. Do you have difficulty sleeping? Yes_____ No_____ 6. Are you or your parents work-aholics? Yes_____ No_____ 7. Do you prefer to be in control of most situations? Yes_____ No_____ 8. Do you have morning stiffness if you don't sleep under more than one blanket at night? Yes_____ No_____ 9. Does noise bother you? Yes_____ No_____ 10. Do you feel really good about doing well in school, sports or your job? Yes_____ No_____ 11. Do you eat before going to bed? Yes_____ No_____ 12. Do you bite your fingernails? Yes_____ No_____ 13. Are you a long distance runner or walker or do you do aerobic exercise regularly? Yes_____ No_____ Many people with headache and back pain often have sleep disturbances. We've found that deep sleep allows for muscle relaxation and the brain's production of it's own morphine-like painkillers, called endorphins. However, it appears that alcohol, barbiturates, benzodiazapines and narcotics may inhibit the brain's ability to make these painkillers even if deep sleep is achieved. Unfortunately many may even get into trouble with those drugs as often they are taken for pain. We help you regain normal sleep and become pain-free by not prescribing any addicting drugs. We do get you sleeping again and hopefully have you live happily ever after. We use anti-depressant medications to accomplish this. Anti-depressant medications can cross the blood brain barrier and can be used in the brain. Most medications cannot. Many doctors are taught that you are depressed when you have symptoms without disease. They are partially correct, as most depression is caused by a long-term sleep disturbance that progresses to cause a variety of symptoms. Instead of giving you psycho-babble, we merely correct your sleep disturbance and your symptoms resolve on their own. Disturbed sleep causes many problems. If you're not making progress and your symptoms persist despite your doc's best efforts, come see us.
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