My Epilepsy Causes Sleep Deprivation
Author: Victor C.
Date: 09-04-2019
Views: 1,149
Word Count: 311
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Testimonial ID: 11368-OR
Brand Neutral: No
Scientific Studies: 8
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Recently I purchased one of Young Living's premium kits, "Premium Starter Kit with Desert Mist Diffuser." The reason being is that I live with epilepsy.
According to the Sleep Foundation, "For people with epilepsy, sleep problems are a double-edged sword; epilepsy disturbs sleep and sleep deprivation aggravates epilepsy. The drugs used to treat epilepsy may also disturb sleep. Because lack of sleep is a trigger for seizures, achieving healthy sleep on a nightly basis is essential for people with epilepsy."
Oh joy! 🙄
So you can understand why this is critical for me. Especially because sleep deprivation is the second cause of seizures. It's a huge deal! What I did that helped me to achieve a healthy sleep on a nightly basis are the following:
1. Have a regular time for bed
2. Didn't nap too much
3. Optimized sleep environment physically and mentally for sleep:
Physically
* My bedroom was made to be suitably dark and quiet.
* Shielded from distracting noise (traffic, other people who arise earlier, etc).
* I made the bed comfortable, and I optimized the temperature.
Psychologically
* My bedroom, and particularly the bed, was associated with sleep and not with other (particularly active) activities.
* I refrained from activities in my bed other than sleep, particularly stressful activities (doing work, studying, or balancing the checkbook). This also includes avoiding reading or watching television in bed.
I also used my Mist Diffuser where I mixed water with several drops of three essential oils:
1. Lavender
2. Lemon
3. Peppermint
Ever since I used my Mist Diffuser with the three essential oils, it's being a major part of my sleep hygiene because it helps me sleep! I'm so glad I purchased the Starter Kit. My results occurred the first night I used it! It really was a huge impact in my life that I needed so bad!
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| Supporting Scientific Studies | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Associated topics: sleep,insomnia-/-sleeplessness — "Lavender, mint [peppermint], orange, rose, chamomile, rosemary, and sage were used.... Depression levels in the touch-music-aroma therapy group... showed a larger decrease than in the... control groups [that did not include aromatherapy].... [FMS] symptoms such as restless sleep, headache, morning fatigue, exhaustion, feeling like crying, and bowel complaints were also significantly reduced." | Link |
| 2. | Associated topics: relaxation-/-rest — "The ylang ylang oil caused a significant decrease of blood pressure and a significant increase of skin temperature. At the behavioral level, subjects in the ylang ylang oil group rated themselves more calm and more relaxed than subjects in the control group. These findings are likely to represent a relaxing effect of the ylang ylang oil and provide some evidence for the usage of the ylang ylang oil in aromatherapy such as causing a relief of depression and stress in humans." | Link |
| 3. | Associated topics: sleep — "Lavender essential oil has been used as an anxiolytic [anxiety] drug, a mood stabilizer, a sedative, spasmolytic [muscle spasms], antihypertensive [high blood pressure], antimicrobial, analgesic [pain] agent as well as a wound healing accelerator.... The present study suggests that inhalation of lavender essential oil may be an effective and safe treatment modality in acute management of migraine headaches." | Link |
| 4. | Associated topics: sleep,insomnia-/-sleeplessness — "[T]he lavender fragrance had a beneficial effect on insomnia and depression in women college students." | Link |
| 5. | Associated topics: sleep,insomnia-/-sleeplessness — "Valerian improves the sleep of insomniacs after benzodiazepine (tranquilizer) withdrawal. Valerian subjects reported significantly better subjective sleep quality than placebo ones...." | Link |
| 6. | Associated topics: sleep,insomnia-/-sleeplessness — "Women [with insomnia] receiving aromatherapy experienced a significant improvement in sleep quality after intervention." | Link |
| 7. | Associated topics: sleep — "This double-blind study suggests a significant reduction in snoring reported by bed partners in a group of snoring volunteers using either an essential oil spray or gargle formulation." | Link |
| 8. | Associated topics: relaxation-/-rest — "[I]dentifying... the effects of YYA [ylang ylang aroma] on blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) is important in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of YYA. The present results demonstrated that inhalation of YYA significantly decreased the systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Inhalation of YYA also significantly decreased the HRs in 10 leads.... In the present results, YYA caused a reduction of HR and BP, and a relief of the arousal level in healthy men. The present results show a sedative effect of YYA, and this study provides some evidences for the usage of YYA [as a] medicinal agent." | Link |
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