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Tips For Sleeping Better When You Have Chronic Pain

When you’re suffering from pain it can be hard to sleep at night. Pain can keep you away, and it can sometimes feel worse at night. It’s at night when you are most relaxed and your mind is more open, so you are thinking more about the throbbing or stabbing pain, instead of distracted from it.

When you’re down with a migraine you just want to close your eyes, but the pain keeps sleep from coming. When you have a toothache you want to sleep away the ache, but it pounds harder when you lay down. Instead of dealing with the pain, whether it’s head, back, neck, or leg pain, here are some things that might help you get through the night with extra sleep instead of less of it. [Read more…]

Originally posted on March 25, 2017 @ 8:55 am

How To Get Better Sleep And Why You Need It

How much sleep do you get a night? If you aren’t getting enough sleep, for whatever reason, it can affect the way the you act, work, and it can even cause you to get into accidents. While the amount of sleep you need varies per person, there are some general amounts to help get you started on the right amount of sleep.

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Six to eight hours is the general amount of sleep needed for an adult. But you need to get a good night’s sleep. Interrupted sleep is pretty much just as bad as not getting any sleep at all. [Read more…]

Originally posted on January 8, 2016 @ 3:41 pm