Sleep and UC

Hi everyone,

I have watched a tv program claiming bad sleeping habits is the main cause of a lot of digetive issues. My question is how many of you had good sleeping schedule pre UC? You need to sleep 6-8 hours in a dark room. Sleeping in day time not counted as a good quality sleep.

Really bad insomnia and bad reactions to lunesta and ambien before I was diagnosed.

After my stay in the hospital, for the first time in my life, I can sleep like a normal person. I sleep all the time now. Sometimes even during the day.

Wouldnt surprise me and I wouldnt call it rubbish either. Its certainly not a necessary or sufficient factor, but it very likely is a risk factor.

I've always had awful awful sleep habits and very bad anxiety associated with darkness so I've slept with either a nightlight or the room light on depending on my level of anxiety on a given night. This is really interesting and I definitely want to see how strong the correlation is between UC and sleep!

Post Edited (milkmilieu) : 7/15/2014 1:42:25 AM (GMT-6)

Vitaka,

The doctor on the show said, poor sleep cause hormone imbalance. Hormone imbalance is the key for chronic diseases. He said if there is a genetic possibility for a chronic disesase then it will slowly activate if you constantly sleep at late night.

Here is an areticle talk about sleep, hormone and cancer

http://www.wenatex.com.au/sleep_healthy_stress_disease.asp

I just wanted to see how sleep influences in triggering UC. It looks like more than 50% of people had poor sleep pre UC. I cannot reverse my UC but I wanted to do my best to prevent my children getting it.

I found a recent medical reseaarch paper concludes, less than 6 hours sleep/day and more than 9 hours sleep day are each associated with an increased risk of UC. Find the article in the following link.

http://www.cghjournal.org/article/S1542-3565(14)00627-2/abstract