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have you wife make you a mummy bag , just from your hips down to your feet , or use a large pillow case. thrashing around might be configned to that pillow case just a bit . but is sounds like there are some unresolved issues in your life hidden deep.
Spudee, are you taking any medication? I've heard that certain drugs for sleep can make some people do strange things -- get up and raid the refrigerator, for example.
A mummy bag; now that is an interesting suggestion. However, I suspect I would suffer a bad case of claustrophobia if I were to encase myself in one of those.
I do take a number of meds but most I have been on for years without any sleep disorders. And there is no chance of me carrying out a midnight 'fridge raid as my lovely wife would not approve.
G'day backatcha, Spudee!
If you read that Wikipedia article carefully, and suspend judgement re the reliability in general of Wikipedia, you'll see that it nowhere calls osteopenia a 'disease' but rather refers to it in terms of numbers from a norm and acknowledges the controversy about that so-called diagnosis.
I have on hand several pieces of paper that say my own personal med test numbers indicate osteopenia so I have done a great deal of research which reassures me that there's no such "disease".
Indeed there is a great deal of controversy as to whether it's even a "condition", and the weight of the evidence comes down on the side of osteopenia being a non-disease and a non-condition. The very term is one invented by purveyors of drugs to 'cure' something that doesn't require treatment.
Long story short, "osteopenia" means your bone density numbers, like almost everyone who's live past the three-score mark, fall short of the optimal for a 30-year-old, and are at worst not far off the mark for a baby-boomer. (if the numbers are far off the mark, then what you have is osteoporosis, but neither nor you nor I have that, so nevermind.)
There's an over-abundance of non-wikipedia material on the whole osteopenia issue. That material's not hard to find even if you're not a professional research librarian like me. I have access to professional medical databases. If you don't, my hunch is you can google terms like "osteopenia controversy" to get the gist.
I'm on your side. My point is not to debate with you, but to help you to focus upon what your problem is. What it *is not* is osteopenia. Put that term out of your mind as you ponder your very real problem and seek help.
As suggested by you I did take a look at material on the net relating to the 'osteopenia controversy' and see what you are talking about. In my OP I merely used the Wikipedia reference as an example. However, I have also read lots of additional material which suggests that the disease/condition is recognised by many medicoes.
Anyway, that was not the subject of my OP but the problems associated with 'REM sleep disorder which I am experiencing at present. I made mention of my vertebra fracture as this was agrivated by my leaping out of bed. I am weighing up options at present but will probably seek referral to a sleep clinic.
Forget the ostopenia; it's not even a real disease.
Your sleep problems and your vertebrae problem (not related to your so-called ostopenia) won't be helped by calcium supplements.
You need another GP but as movinon said, it sounds like your primary problem is a sleep disorder. So get yourself to someone who specializes in those.
Osteopenia is a condition. It is a precursor to osteoporosis.
Best to check with your physician--almost sounds like restless leg syndrome (or "jimmy legs" as they used to call it on Seinfeld). You have a bit more body involvement, however. My husband "runs" in his sleeps but also has smacked me in the nose a couple of times. I'd like to get one of those "chastity" bed divider boards like they used in puritan times....
Spudee, Taking calcium alone is not the way to go.
Be Sure to also Take Magnesium!
This could solve some of your other problems.
It will help to calm your nerves.
Research "Magnesium and Nerves".
Here is one article: The Role of Magnesium in Fibromyalgia.
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